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.

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — Coweta County Fire Rescue escorted home the body of a beloved fire battalion chief who died in an Alabama shooting. Battalion Chief Bart Cauthen worked with the department for ...

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. (WRBL ... killed Sunday while helping a stranded couple after they hit a deer in rural Alabama. Investigators tell WRBL the suspect, William Randall Franklin, 33 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expect road conditions to deteriorate on Alabama 77 the closer you get to the Randolph county line Chambers County 53 - the Bridge over Chikasanoxee Creek North of Abanda is snow/sleet Covered.

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