MOULTRIE, Ga. — A man shot during a Saturday afternoon confrontation with deputies responding to a domestic-violence call was recovering Tuesday from a chest wound at a Macon hospital.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday identified the man as Peter Torres. Torres, 23, was shot outside his 153 Blackberry Lane residence.

The GBI said that the officer who fired the shot is Joshua Alan Luke, a deputy who began working at the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office in October and previously had worked at another law enforcement agency. The GBI did not identify that agency.

A spokeswoman at Navicent Health in Macon said that she found no record of Torres as a patient. In some instances hospitals are prohibited by federal law from releasing patient information to the media; an example of such a case would be if the patient requested that his information be kept private.

According to the GBI, medical personnel took Torres to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, where he was stabilized, and then transferred to Macon.  

The GBI said in a Tuesday morning news release that it has not completed its investigation and that if any charges are filed in the case, they would be initiated by local authorities.

“Once the investigation into the use of force is completed, it will be turned over to the Colquitt County District Attorney’s Office for their review,” said the news release prepared by Jamy Steinberg, special agent in charge at the agency’s Thomasville office. “Any charges against Torres will be handled by the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.”

The deputy shot Torres after Colquitt County E-911 dispatched officers to Torres’ residence to investigate a call related to a domestic-violence situation, the GBI said on Monday.

“A deputy attempted to speak with the subject (Torres), who then began running at the deputy, refusing to stop after being given verbal commands to do so,” according to the GBI news release. “The deputy fired and struck the subject.”

Police arrested Torres on Jan. 24 at the same address on a family-violence charge of simple battery. In January 2016 the Moultrie Police Department arrested Torres on charges of driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident (hit and run), possession of alcohol by a minor, open container in vehicle and failure to stop at stop sign.

In April 2015 Torres was found guilty on a charge of possession of alcohol by a minor in Moultrie Municipal Court, stemming from an arrest in February of that year, at which time he was fined $1,104 and sentenced to 12 months’ probation.

Luke began his law enforcement career as a jailer in Worth County, Colquitt County Sheriff Rod Howell said during a Tuesday telephone interview. He attended police academy while working there and was certified in Georgia as a peace officer a little less than a year ago.

Luke was placed on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation, Howell said. The GBI will turn its report over to the district attorney’s office, which is expected to initially present the findings to a civil grand jury. Depending on the outcome there the case could be referred to a criminal grand jury.

On Tuesday, The Observer made an email request to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council asking whether Luke previously has been referred to the agency for investigation in the past. No response has been received yet.

An online search did not reveal any prior media or other reports concerning the officer.

No charges had been filed against Torres as of Tuesday, according to Howell. The sheriff’s office will wait for the GBI’s report into the incident before taking action.

“The GBI took over the investigation as soon as we called them in,” Howell said. “They interviewed the family members and witnesses. Once they were involved we stepped out of it” to allow an independent agency to conduct the investigation.