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

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

Officials in Alabama have uncovered tragic new details in the “bizarre” shooting death of a fire chief who was trying to assist two drivers who had accidentally hit a deer. Coweta County Fire Chief James Bartholomew Cauthen,