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

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — A Coweta County Fire battalion chief remembered as a brother, leader and mentor was shot and killed in Alabama on Sunday trying to help a driver who'd hit a deer.

We lost one of our brothers, leaders, mentor, and family to a senseless tragedy,” Cauthen’s colleagues wrote in a Facebook ...

According to an online obituary, a visitation will be held for Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" ...

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A Coweta County fire battalion chief, who was shot and killed recently in Alabama while trying to help a couple who‘d hit a deer with their vehicle, was brought back to Georgia on Thursday for his ...

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

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 was with Coweta County Fire Rescue for over 24 years and was described as an "amazing, hard-working man with a gentle ...

Image via Coweta County Fire Rescue Never leave a fallen comrade behind. The Coweta County Fire Rescue traveled to Alabama to escort the body of slain Georgia Fire Chief Bart Cauthen back home.