Fire Chief Fatally Shot While Helping a Couple Whose Car Struck a Deer in Alabama ... to a nearby property to ask for help because the couple couldn't get service, Chambers County Sheriff ...

CHAMBERS COUNTY ... of Coweta County Fire Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, who was killed Sunday while helping a stranded couple after they hit a deer in rural Alabama. Investigators tell ...

A man fatally shot a fire battalion chief and wounded the driver of a car that hit a deer in rural Alabama ... property to ask for help because the couple couldn't get service, Chambers County ...

James Bartholomew Cauthen, a 54-year-old fire chief with Coweta County Fire in Georgia, was working outside on a nearby property ... said. Chambers County includes the remote Alabama location ...

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — A man fatally shot a fire battalion chief and wounded the driver of a car that hit a deer in rural Alabama ... the driver to a nearby property to ask for help because ...

and was leaving property he owned or maintained just over the Alabama border when he noticed a vehicle that had hit a deer and stopped to help, Chambers County Chief Deputy Mike Parrish told WRBL.

the Chambers County Alabama Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Police were responding to a traffic accident involving a deer when they found the three victims, per the release.

Investigators believe that Cauthen had helped the couple after noticing their vehicle and injured deer when leaving his nearby property ... back from the Chambers County Alabama Sheriff's Office ...

They said their investigation indicated that the couple hit a deer with their vehicle and pulled over to the side of County Road 267. Cauthen, who owned property in the area and was driving back ...