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 fire chief was shot to death in Alabama after stopping to help a couple whose car struck a deer, officials said. James Bartholomew Cauthen was the battalion chief for the Coweta County ...

He was dispatched to *** wreck involving *** deer. And when he arrived on the scene, he found 3 people with gunshot wounds. Around 5 o'clock on Sunday, deputies found *** battalion chief from.