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

A Georgia fire chief was shot dead after stopping to help motorists who had hit a deer in Alabama. A man who lived nearby now ...

Coweta County Battalion Fire Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen was found dead and two others injured with gunshot wounds, the ...

The man accused of killing a Georgia battalion fire chief and injuring another person has been extradited to Chambers County ...

A fire chief died in Alabama ... scene," the Chambers County Sheriff's Office said. "The deceased victim is identified as James Bartholomew Cauthen, 54 years of age from Moreland, Georgia ...

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

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.

A fire chief in Alabama has ... Facebook / Coweta County Fire Rescue One of the shooting victims -- identified as 54-year-old James Bartholomew Cauthen from Moreland, Georgia -- was deceased ...

An Alabama man shot a Georgia fire chief to death on Sunday for approaching his home. James Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, had stopped to help a couple who had struck a deer on County Road 267 in Chambers ...

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