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By Doha Madani
An animal rescue organization offers a reward for receiving information after finding a dolphin killed in Manhattan Beach, California.
Marine Animal Rescue, of El Segundo, on Friday released a $ 5,000 reward on their Facebook page after a necropsy had revealed that a dolphin had died of an injury from ball.
Peter Wallerstein, founder and chairman of the rescue group, received a call from the dolphin in the waves on the morning of November 8 and managed to recover the animal with the help of a lifeguard.
"It's just a brutal act of brutality," Wallerstein told NBC News on Friday.
A doctor at the Navy Mammal Care Center in Los Angeles, a local rehabilitation center, was able to recover the bullet that killed the dolphin, Wallerstein said.
Wallerstein said he contacted the National Marine Fisheries Service to open an investigation into the incident.
"They will do their best," Wallerstein said. "They have the ball and they have evidence of the shooting, we find very rarely these people but the reward is to put them on notice."
Wallerstein has been working in the field of animal rescue for over 30 years and states that he can not understand why someone would kill a dolphin. And although he has never seen a case like this before, Wallerstein told NBC News that this could be a sign of a more serious problem.
"Sea lions have been shot but never a dolphin," he said. "But maybe the dolphins are back in the ocean, we do not know."
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