A resident in the area opened fire on Battalion Chief Bart Cauthen and the driver as they walked up his driveway for help.

James Cauthen, a 54-year-old fire chief with Coweta County Fire in Georgia, was shot and killed while helping drivers who hit ...

A Georgia fire chief was shot and killed in Alabama over the weekend after he stopped to help out a driver who struck a deer in Chambers County, police say.

James Cauthen was killed on Sunday as he and the driver he was assisting came under fire while seeking help in Stroud, Ala., ...

A fire chief in Alabama has been shot and killed after he stopped to help a driver who had hit a deer with their vehicle, ...

The Coweta County fire chief was shot to death over the weekend when he stopped to help a stranger who had hit a deer in ...

A Coweta County battalion fire chief was killed Sunday while stopping to help a stranded driver on County Road 267 in ...

One of the men — later identified as 54-year-old Coweta County Battalion Fire Chief James Cauthen — was pronounced dead at ...

The department also acknowledged the outpouring of support from neighboring agencies and the Coweta County community.

A man accused of killing a Georgia fire chief who’d stopped to help a driver who struck a deer has been arrested in ...

The Coweta County community is mourning the loss of one of its fire chiefs to what they are calling a “senseless tragedy.” ...

A Coweta Fire Rescue Department firefighter died on Sunday after a man shot him and a driver who hit a deer in Alabama.