5:05 p.m.

In an email about 4:45 p.m., the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified a deceased man as Nick Warnell.

The email said the agency was called in to investigate an officer-involved shooting Thursday night between Berlin and Ellenton.

Warnell was the subject of a manhunt Thursday night after a shooting incident in which a Colquitt County sheriff’s deputy was hit by glass fragments and another was hit by a vehicle.

More information will be updated as this story develops.

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3:44 p.m.

BERLIN, Ga. — One Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office deputy was struck by glass shrapnel when shots were fired at a police car Thursday night and a second officer was struck by a car, but neither apparently suffered serious injuries.

A short time after the incident a man died on Cannon Road of an apparent gunshot wound. The 30-year-old was not a member of law enforcement.

The scene where the body was located was on Cannon Road about two miles south of Highway 37 East and was about three miles west of the Cook County line.

Local officers, assisted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, worked through the night and were continuing to conduct interviews with witnesses through the afternoon.

The GBI is expected to give details later today as to the series of events and names of the officers and the deceased.

Investigators had several scenes where action occurred to process and were talking with a number of witnesses, Sheriff Rod Howell said on Friday afternoon.

“One (deputy) received minor injuries from glass fragments, glass shards, from one officer’s vehicle,” he said. “There were shots fired.”

“One (officer) was struck by a vehicle. It looks like they’re going to make a full recovery.”

At least one of the two was taken to an area hospital, he said.

Police were still trying to fit the pieces together, but at the time the initial incident occurred sheriff’s deputies were assisting probation officers making rounds to check in on probationers.

“We were doing home visits,” Howell said. “It was a detail that we were doing in conjunction with probation.”

The man killed was not one of the individuals that probation officers were checking in on, he said. The GBI is expected to give more details later from what the investigation has revealed so far.

“By the first of next week I hope we have 99 percent of the answers,” Howell said.