{"id":925929,"date":"2026-10-09T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925929\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:00:17","slug":"american-hunter-involved-in-sask-crash-that-killed-mom-and-two-daughters-leaving-canada-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925929\/","title":{"rendered":"American hunter involved in Sask. crash that killed mom and two daughters leaving Canada on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An American man facing charges after a crash in Saskatchewan that killed a mother and her two daughters was released Thursday on $20,000 bail and will return to the United States, his lawyer told CBC News in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Oct. 2 crash happened near Foam Lake, about 200 kilometres northeast of Regina.<\/p>\n

Kelly Knopf, 40, has a broken pelvis and will return to South Carolina to seek medical treatment, according to Brian Pfefferle, his Saskatoon-based lawyer.<\/p>\n

“He will return. We have no doubt about it,” Pfefferle told CBC News in an interview. He said his client came to Canada on a hunting trip.<\/p>\n

Knopf is charged with multiple counts of dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amber Olson, 40, and her daughters Isla and Everly , ages five and eight, died in the collision. Shaun Didychuk, the girls’ father, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Pfefferle said Knopf was able to leave Canada largely because he has a history of being law-abiding.<\/p>\n

“When someone’s from another country and they’re alleged to have committed a criminal offence it’s often difficult to get them released for the reasons that might come front to mind,” he said.<\/p>\n

Knopf had been “shackled” in the hospital since the incident and he has children of a similar age to the two who died in the collision, Pfefferle said.<\/p>\n

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American hunter charged in Foam Lake crash that killed 3<\/p>\n

The community of Foam Lake is grieving after a collision claimed the lives of a woman and two children. Forty-year-old Kelly Knopf from Sumter, South Carolina was arrested and charged with three counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.<\/p>\n

Strangers and locals who already knew Knopf have reached out to offer their support, he added.<\/p>\n

“They’re prepared to help him and it’s a tragedy and they just want to be there for everybody that’s affected.”<\/p>\n

Knopf’s next appearance is in Wadena on Jan. 21, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-925929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925929","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=925929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}