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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — A Coweta County fire battalion chief died on Sunday after an Alabama man shot him while he was trying ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A fire chief was shot dead after trying to get help for a couple who had hit a deer in Alabama. According to officials in Chambers County, Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" Cauthen, 54, went to the home ...