Jethro Senger, a sound engineer at the shoot, said hitting the bird was ``basically like a joke to (Isenhour).''
``He just kept saying how he didn't think he could have hit it, which I think is a stupid thing for a PGA Tour golfer to say,'' Senger said. ``He can put a ball in a hole from hundreds of yards away, and here he is hitting line drives at something that's, I don't know, a couple hundred feet away?''
Senger said no one in the roughly 15-person crew intervened, and many later regretted it.
``It was one of those cases where there's some trepidation on whether or not they should speak up and do something,'' Senger said.
Senger said the killing was not captured on video. The bird was buried at the golf course and later dug up by Florida investigators.
``Americans have no tolerance for cruelty to animals. Such a petty, mean-spirited act against a wild bird is inexcusable and prosecutors are right to hold Isenhour accountable to the law,'' Humane Society executive vice president Michael Markarian said in a statement released Thursday.
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Associated Press Writer Kelli Kennedy in Miami contributed to this report.
