Man, 36, is charged after ‘stoning beloved bird to death’ at California lake - ‘It was just shock and anger, like, What the hell is wrong with you?’ a witness said of the incident in Sam Bernardino Co

After other visitors yelled at them to leave the birds alone, one of the men threw a rock at an egret, a wading bird, closely related to a heron. The man missed but hit the bird with a second rock, Kaylyn Donica, a witness, told the station. The bird fell over in the water.

A 36-year-old Los Angeles County man has been arrested after reportedly throwing a rock at a beloved Great Egret in San Bernardino, leaving the bird, which ultimately died, badly wounded. The unsettling act of alleged animal cruelty unfolded on Oct.

Image via Getty A California community is in shock and enraged after a man stoned a beloved wild bird to death. Someone captured the sickening act on video, which led to the man's arrest. Authorities arrested 36-year-old Jeremy Jansen after he used a rock to smash the bird to death.