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

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

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 Alabama, investigators say.