Coweta County fire Battalion Chief James “Bart” Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, was fatally shot in Alabama on Sunday while helping a couple who had hit a deer.

James Bartholomew Cauthen, a fire chief with Georgia’s Coweta County Fire Rescue, had stopped to assist the couple sometime before 5 p.m. on County Road 267, according to officials.

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James Bartholomew Cauthen, the fire battalion chief for Coweta County, was on the side of the road helping a driver who had hit a deer, according to the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office.

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 Georgia county fire chief was fatally shot in Alabama after attempting to assist individuals who had struck a deer while traveling, police said. The deceased was identified as James Bartholomew ...

James Bartholomew Cauthen, a fire chief with Georgia’s Coweta County Fire Rescue, had stopped to assist the couple sometime before 5 p.m. on County Road 267, according to officials.

A man fatally shot a fire battalion chief and wounded the driver of a car that hit a deer in rural Alabama. Authorities say Coweta County Fire Chief James Bartholomew ...