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 transferred Torres to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, where he was stabilized, and from there he was transferred to Macon.  

The GBI said in a Tuesday morning news release that it has not completed its information 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.”