FORT LAUDERDALE, FL– A 44-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly stomped on a duck until it died.

The incident was reported on Tuesday in the 400 block of Southwest Seventh Avenue. 

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department says they received a call stating that an unknown man, for unknown reasons, walked into the middle of the street and began repeatedly stomping on a white and brown duck. 

When authorities arrived at the scene, they found the duck “flattened.”

Officials identified the suspect as Michael Caraker and took him into custody on a of charge of torturing/inflicting pain, serious injury, or death to an animal.