SPARTA, N.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) - An elderly North Carolina man pleads guilty in federal court to charges of killing a bald ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A 91-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to killing a bald eagle in Sparta, North Carolina in June, ...

SPARTA, N.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) - An elderly North Carolina man pleads guilty in federal court to charges of killing a bald ...

Robert Garner Gambill, 91, of Sparta, N.C., pleaded guilty in federal court today to killing a bald eagle, a violation of the ...

Robert Gambill, 91, of North Carolina, pleaded guilty to the illegal killing of a bald eagle and faces up to a year in prison ...

An elderly North Carolina man appeared in federal court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to killing a bald eagle.

According to records, Gambill shot and killed the eagle using a high-powered Ruger M77 Mark 2 rifle while the bird was perched in a tree near the Farmers Fish Camp Road Bridge in Sparta ...

Gambill said he set his gun on a fencepost, aimed and fired at the eagle, killing it. He left the bird's carcass on the New ...

Gambell was armed with a Ruger M77 Mark 2 22-250 rifle and an attached Nikon Monarch MR31 4x16-42 scope. After killing the eagle, Gambill abandoned the carcass on the bank of the New River and ...

Gambell was armed with a Ruger M77 Mark 2 22-250 rifle and an attached Nikon Monarch MR31 4x16-42 scope. After killing the eagle, Gambill abandoned the carcass on the bank of the New River and ...