Texas game wardens are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is illegally shooting alligators at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge on Lake Worth.

Reward offered in alligator shootings: What we know: Between May and July 2026, at least three alligators were shot at the nature refuge.

Two of the animals were killed and their carcasses were left to waste, while a third survived after game wardens discovered it with a crossbow bolt still lodged in its body.