OAKLAND — A 30-year-old man accused of using his bare hands to kill a goose Tuesday at Lakeside Park was charged Thursday with a misdemeanor count of cruelly wounding an animal, authorities said.

Yonas Alehegne, whose most recent address was in San Mateo, was also charged with another misdemeanor of resisting arrest. Police said an officer used a Taser to subdue him after he refused to comply with repeated commands.

Authorities also said Alehegne was wanted for violating parole, which the officer did not know at the time. Details about his prior conviction were not immediately available, officials said, but a man by the same name was convicted of stalking and making criminal threats in November.

Park employees were notified about 3:10 p.m. Tuesday by passing citizens that a man in the 600 block of Bellevue Avenue near the Junior Center of Art and Science was choking a Canada goose.

Police were called and a lone officer was the first to respond. By the time the officer confronted Alehegne on a grass area up a slope from the center, the goose had been killed and decapitated and the man was plucking its feathers.

According to court documents, Alehegne told the officer, “I am hungry and tired and want to eat the goose.”

There were no reports that any children witnessed the attack on the goose.

The officer used his Taser after Alehegne refused repeated commands to get on the ground, became aggressive and appeared ready to attack the officer, police and witnesses said.

Alehegne was finally subdued and handcuffed when other officers arrived. He was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He is being held at Santa Rita Jail without bail because of the parole violation.