Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of killing a Georgia fire official and injuring another person Sunday in Chambers County.

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

Leanna Washington, 36, of LaGrange, Georgia, was found dead in the James Morgan County Detention Facility in LaFayette.

Authorities say a man accused of killing a fire official and injuring another person in a shooting was arrested on murder charges.

CHAMBERS COUNTY, Ala. — The Georgia community is mourning after a Coweta County firefighter was shot and killed while trying to help a motorist who struck a deer in the road in Alabama on Sunday.

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

The Coweta County community is mourning the loss of one of its fire chiefs to what they are calling a “senseless tragedy.”

The Coweta County fire chief was shot to death over the weekend when he stopped to help a stranger who had hit a deer in Alabama, investigators say.

Coweta County Fire Battalion Chief James Bartholomew "Bart" Cauthen was shot and killed in Alabama trying to help a driver who'd 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 deer in Alabama.

An Alabama fire chief was killed in a shootout after he stopped to help a driver who ran over a deer. The individual responsible and the driver were both injured, and the shooter now faces murder char

A fire chief in Alabama has been shot and killed after he stopped to help a driver who had hit a deer with their vehicle, police said.