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.

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

Cauthen was helping a couple whose car had struck a deer Sunday afternoon in Chambers County, Alabama, just west of the border with Georgia, the sheriff department wrote in a Facebook post. Cauthen, ...

A man accused of killing a Georgia fire chief who’d stopped to help a driver who struck a deer has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting, a police official said Tuesday.

A 29-year-old Lineville, Alabama man is in custody, charged with attempted murder for allegedly shaking his 4-month-old daughter so violently it caused severe ...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Coweta County Fire Rescue escorted home the body of a beloved fire battalion chief who died in an ...

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

the Chambers County Alabama Sheriff's Office confirmed in a news release. The sheriff's office's early investigation determined that Cauthen was trying to help two people who had hit a deer while ...

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. (WTVM) - New information is coming out about an east Alabama man charged with aggravated child abuse. Joshua Denham appeared in court for an Aniah’s Law hearing and was ...

On Tuesday, friends, family and the community at large will say goodbye to a Coweta County fire official who was shot and ...

Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" Cauthen was shot and killed in Alabama trying to help a driver who'd hit a deer.

A Georgia fire chief was shot to death in Alabama after stopping to help a couple whose car struck a deer, officials said.