Illegal shootings have accounted for an even larger proportion of mortality among the birds introduced into the Louisiana population, In all, about 10% of the first 147 released cranes being shot and killed: two and likely three cranes in October 2011, one in April 2013, two in February 2014, one in November 2014, two in November 2015, two in January and another two in May 2016, one in July 2018 (the first male of the population to successfully rear chicks) and another the following November. Two juveniles were apprehended for the 2011 incident, a Louisiana man was sentenced to 45 days imprisonment and a $2500 fine after pleading guilty to the killing in November 2014, and a Texas man was fined $25,000 for the January 2016 shooting and barred from possessing firearms during a 5-year probation period, on subsequent violation of which he was given an 11-month custodial sentence. On the other hand, a Louisiana man cited for the July 2018 shooting received probation, community service and hunting and fishing restrictions but no fine or firearms restriction. Two Louisiana juveniles were cited in 2018 for the May 2016 incident.