US seeks help to find culprit who shot and killed 4 bald eagles in Arkansas
Fox News
Wildlife agencies are asking the public to help find the shooter who killed four bald eagles in Arkansas. Authorities also found a dog, a deer, and hawks fatally shot nearby.
A joint investigation by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that the birds were shot between mid-January and mid-February. In addition to the eagles, authorities found red-tailed hawks, a domestic dog and white-tailed deer in the vicinity that had also been shot and killed.
"There’s, I think, evidence that somebody probably shot (the birds) from the road, but I don’t even know that they’re 100% certain of that," said Rob Finley, the Arkansas Game and Fish commissioner for the area where the eagles were killed. "I know that they did set up a little bit of an operation to see if ... the people ever came back, but never did."
Finley said that is when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the lead on the investigation.