‘A gentle soul’: Fire chief gunned down on country road after he tried to help couple who hit a deer, police say

Fire chief killed during shootout

Background: The scene of the shootout where Bart Cauthen died (WBRL). Inset (top): Coweta County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Bart Cauthen (Coweta County Fire Rescue on Facebook). Inset (bottom): William Randall Franklin (Muscogee County Jail).

A Georgia fire chief who was reportedly trying to help a couple who hit a deer with their car in Alabama died after being involved in an alleged shootout with a local man.

James Bartholomew “Bart” Cauthen, 54, was the Battalion Chief of Coweta County Fire Rescue in Georgia, and he was one of three gunshot victims after an incident involving the driver of a car that hit a deer in Alabama’s Chambers County and the man who allegedly fired the fatal shot, William Randall Franklin, 33.

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