Overview
- Deputies named the victims as 3-year-old Beckett Brown and his grandmother, 51-year-old Kristen Nelson.
- Investigators say the child entered an outdoor enclosure at his grandmother’s property where an adult American Bulldog was kept.
- Nelson intervened to stop the attack and suffered serious injuries, according to the sheriff’s office.
- She called 911 and drove her grandson to Perham Health, where he died; she was later transferred to a Fargo hospital.
- The sheriff’s office says the case remains under investigation and notes the incident occurred west of New York Mills.