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

Family, friends and a Georgia community that a fallen Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief served will say their final goodbyes ...

We lost one of our brothers, leaders, mentor, and family to a senseless tragedy,” Cauthen's colleagues wrote in a Facebook ...

GEORGIA, USA — A visitation and memorial service will be held over the next two days for a Georgia battalion chief who was killed in Alabama while trying to help a driver who hit a deer.

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

A resident in the area opened fire on Battalion Chief Bart Cauthen and the driver as they walked up his driveway for help.

Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen and the driver involved in the accident were walking up a driveway near County Road 276 in Chambers County around 5 p.m. looking for ...

James “Bart” Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, was helping the couple who had crashed their truck in front of a property he owns when a neighbor, William Randall Franklin, opened fire without reason ...

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

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 ...

James Bartholomew Cauthen, a battalion fire chief in Georgia’s Coweta County, was fatally shot Sunday in Alabama after leaving his residence there and helping a couple who had struck a deer with their ...