![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\")
<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\tBy Daniela Germano<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted May 15, 2026 2:51 pm<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated May 15, 2026 5:05 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n
\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n
The owner of two dogs that killed an 11-year-old boy says she was working to get her Cane Corsos trained before the fatal attack.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Crystal MacDonald is on trial facing a charge of criminal negligence causing death<\/a> after Kache Grist<\/a> was fatally mauled by her Cane Corsos at her home in the Summerside<\/a> neighbourhood in April 2024.<\/p>\n Court has heard the unneutered dogs, who weighed 50 kg (110 pounds) and 57 kg (125 pounds), severely injured a woman at MacDonald\u2019s home less than two months before Kache\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tImage from video from the day of the attack on Tina Kelepouris.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Tina Kelepouris went to MacDonald\u2019s house with two other friends in February 2024.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n She had been interacting and playing with the dogs for several unremarkable minutes in the backyard, when the dogs unexpectedly attacked her.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.<\/p>\n Kelepouris spent four days in hospital with three broken ribs, a punctured lung and more than a dozen stitches all over her body.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:56 MacDonald said she had not arrived at her house yet when the attack happened, adding that the three friends let themselves inside.<\/p>\n She said she told one of the friends repeatedly that she did not want anyone playing with her dogs, as they had already killed a Pomeranian, a cat, and injured another person at the house.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore on Crime MacDonald said after the attack on Kelepouris, she contacted several places to have her dogs trained and had an appointment lined up to neuter the more aggressive dog.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tEdmonton police stopping Crystal MacDonald from entering her home in south Edmonton\u2019s Summerside neighbourhood, shortly after Kache Grist was killed by her two dogs in April 2024.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tSupplied\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The Crown, which wrapped up its case Thursday, opened the trial saying it would attempt to prove McDonald should have known her dogs were dangerous, given the reports of their aggressive history prior to the fatal attack on Kache.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:54 \t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n \t\tNext Video<\/p>\n \u2014 More to come\u2026<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n With files from Karen Bartko, Global News<\/p>\n \n\t\t© 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Daniela Germano The Canadian Press Posted May 15, 2026 2:51 pm Updated May 15, 2026 5:05 pm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,2169,23752,17442,246200,245548,231968,245545],"class_list":["post-673421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-crime","tag-edmonton-dog-attack","tag-kache-grist","tag-summerside","tag-summerside-dog-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Get](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Click](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6P_DOG_ATTACK_MONDAY.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWoman hospitalized after attack by 2 dogs at same Edmonton home where boy died: lawyer\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n![\"Edmonton](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Still-2026-05-14-12h22m14s660.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Click](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778935314_786_Kache-feature-2.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMom of boy killed in Edmonton dog attack shares devastating grief\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n