MOULTRIE, Ga. — A 23-year-old Colquitt County man shot during a confrontation on Feb. 4 with sheriff’s deputies died on Thursday in the Macon hospital where he was taken for treatment nearly two weeks ago.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which has not wrapped up its investigation, learned that Peter Torres died at about noon Thursday, said Jamy Steinberg, special agent in charge of the agency’s Thomasville Office.

An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, said Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock, who was unable to release additional information due to the ongoing investigation.

Also Friday the deputy, Joshua Alan Luke, is scheduled to return to work with the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.

He had been placed on paid administrative leave during the early stages of the GBI’s probe of the incident in which Torres was shot in the chest when Luke and other deputies responded to a domestic-violence call.

Luke, who began work here on Oct. 16, 2016, initially will be assigned non-patrol duties, said sheriff’s Capt. Julius Cox, including working court security and serving court papers in the county.

The GBI has not completed its investigation, and on Wednesday the agency declined to comment on Torres’ condition or whether he had been able to provide a statement to police.

On Wednesday, the agency confirmed that Torres remained hospitalized, but cited the ongoing investigation in explanation of not providing additional information at this time.

“We have remained in contact with hospital officials monitoring his condition,” Steinberg said in an email response.

Steinberg declined to say whether Torres had a weapon or object that could have been taken for one at the time of the shooting.

“That’s all the information (we) will release at this time because it’s an active investigation,” he said.

Luke and other officers responded on Feb. 4 to Torres’ 135 Blackberry Lane residence, according to an earlier GBI news release prepared by Steinberg.

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

Deputies had arrested Torres on Jan. 24 at the same address on a family-violence charge of simple battery, according to sheriff’s office reports.

Luke had no previous known sanctions or investigations on his record during his time in law enforcement, according to a report from the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. The agency, which certifies law enforcement officers, provided Luke’s profile report in response to a request from The Observer under the Georgia Open Records Act.

Luke has been in law enforcement for a little more than two years, having started work as a jailer at the Worth County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 29, 2014, the report said. He was promoted to deputy sheriff there in March 2016 and left the agency on Sept. 29, 2016 to take a job in Colquitt County.

He has accumulated 508 training hours, including 408 hours in basic law enforcement training and 80 hours’ basic jail training. His last training was a two-hour handcuffing techniques course in January 2017.

Upon completing its report, the GBI will present its findings to the Colquitt County District Attorney’s Office, which will present it to a grand jury.