James Cauthen was killed on Sunday as he and the driver he was assisting came under fire while seeking help in Stroud, Ala., the authorities said. A man was charged with murder.
A fire chief was fatally shot after he and a driver who had hit a deer on a rural road in Alabama came under fire as they approached a house to ask for help, the authorities said. Sheriff’s deputies responded around 5 p.m. on Sunday to a report of a traffic accident involving a deer near the Georgia border, the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. They found three men with gunshot wounds. James Bartholomew Cauthen, 54, a battalion chief with Coweta County Fire Rescue in Newnan, Ga., was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, whose name was not released, and a man identified as William Randall Franklin were flown by helicopter to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds, the sheriff’s office said.
Mike Segrest, the district attorney for Alabama’s 5th Judicial Circuit, said in an email on Tuesday that Mr. Franklin had been charged with murder. The authorities said that Chief Cauthen had stopped to assist the driver and that the two men sought help nearby in the small community of Stroud, Ala. As they were doing so, Mr. Franklin “opened fire on Chief Cauthen and the individual that struck the deer,” the sheriff’s office said. “All individuals were injured during the shootout.” “They start walking up a driveway and an individual that lived in the residence where this driveway was came out and started shooting,” Mike Parrish, chief deputy of the Chambers County Sheriff’s Office, told WTVM-TV of Columbus, Ga.
Deputy Parrish, who could not be reached on Tuesday, told WTVM that all three men were armed. A dispatcher said that he was unable to take calls because of bad weather in the area. “You pull up and three people are shot — it just don’t make sense any way you look at it,” he told the station. “We just really didn’t know what happened. It was just bizarre.”
A scuffed firefighting helmet and black safety jacket are displayed in a locker. Chief Cauthen’s helmet and uniform in his firehouse in Newnan, Ga., about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. He had served the department for more than 24 years.Credit…Coweta County Fire Rescue Chief Cauthen, who was known as Bart, had worked for more than 24 years for Coweta County Fire Rescue in Newnan, which is about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. The department did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear why Chief Cauthen was in the area where the crash took place. Stroud, a small unincorporated community, is about six and a half miles from the Georgia state line.
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So many white people in America live for the opportunity to shoot an intruder.
Embracing the role of hostile NPCs patrolling their little dungeons
They were told the US is an open PVP server, can you blame them?
“Never should’ve come here!”
So relieved we can finally say n’wah again without fear of zero-summing.
from my collection
What the fuck is wrong with Americans? I know I’m beating a corpse with this question/sentence but good lord.
The settler compulsion to tie land and violence into the national identity that’s what.
Just for some added flavor: This guy has a tesla truck with a wrap advertising his contracting business.
Goes well with a semi-popular bumpersticker I’ve seen with the American flag, saying “these colors don’t run, they reload”
I know I’d be embarrassed out of my mind if I was caught with that t-shirt on even if I was an American.
There would definitely be a lot of running if they ever had to fight a real war. Weren’t the sailors on that Navy ship whining that they weren’t getting gourmet food and were pooping their pants because Ansarallah was so scary?
Protecting yourself and your treats from invaders trying to exploit your goodwill for so-called “help” is the coolest and least cowardly thing you could do in this situation
Americans are such fucking cowards. “Oh shit a couple of oldish guys coming up my driveway. Get the fuckin Glock. Antifa has finally come for my freedom.”
That’s something about American culture I’ve always noticed. Anytime a man gets threatened or scared they assert their masculinity by saying “I would just shoot that hyuk hyuk hyuk”
Burger reich subjects killing each other instead of doing the normal thing of talking/asking as always.
Deputy Parrish, who could not be reached on Tuesday, told WTVM that all three men were armed.
“You pull up and three people are shot — it just don’t make sense any way you look at it. We just really didn’t know what happened."
remember when it was a hack bit on TV for women to make fun of men for never stopping to ask for directions?
“Now who is laughing,” I say around the chewed cigar in my mouth as I reload the two Uzis I am dual wielding in preparation for flagging down the ice cream truck to see if he has any double chocolate chunk today
Dude got the jump on 2 intruders and somehow managed to shoot himself?
all three were armed so they returned fire presumably
LMAO
I’m sure at least one of them might have been something resembling a good person, but this is just too fucking funny.
Like the Spartans 200 years after their peak. Just a bunch of disheveled dudes praying to a shaman im the ruins of a wealthy civilization, so irrelevant that even Alexander didn’t bother conquering them.
Guns sure are cool
Just a normal country doing normal things. Thank God for all that freedom /s
Americans have mentally never left the Wild West frontier mindset.
The actual “Wild West” was far more tame than people think, it was never the “shoot first ask questions later” version most people think of. These people have never left the John Wayne movie mindset.
Unless you were an Indian. Then you were hunted for sport.
fascist infighting
This is funny af sorry lol
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