Investigators tell WRBL the suspect, William Randall Franklin, 33, allegedly opened fire on Cauthen and the driver without ...

A Georgia fire chief has been fatally shot after stopping to help a couple who struck a deer with their car in Alabama.

James Cauthen, a 54-year-old fire chief with Coweta County Fire in Georgia, was shot and killed while helping drivers who hit ...

Authorities say a man accused of killing a fire official and injuring another person in a shooting was arrested on murder ...

A fire battalion chief from Georgia was killed in a roadside shooting that injured two other people in Chambers County on ...

Deputies in Alabama arrived to find James Cauthen, who owned a property nearby, dead and two others with gunshot wounds.

Authorities say murder charges have been issued for a man accused of fatally shooting a Georgia fire chief in rural Alabama.

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 ...

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 ...