MOULTRIE, Ga. — A murder suspect from another Georgia county has been transferred out of Colquitt County Jail after a struggle with jail personnel during which one of them was bitten.

The confrontation between jailers and Lewis Shukung Geddie occurred at about 1:50 p.m. Thursday, according to Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office reports.

“He trashed his holding cell, so they were trying to move him to clean it up,” sheriff’s Sgt. Nathan Cato said. “He refused (their) directions. At that point he poked one of them in face with his finger and ended up slapping him. The jailers were trying to restrain him and he fought back.”

During the struggle Geddie reportedly bit one of the jail staff.

That officer went to Colquitt Regional Medical Center to be checked out as a precaution, Cato said.

Geddie, 32, of Homerville, has been charged with the Sept. 9, 2016, fatal shooting of Willis Lamar Flintroyal in Lakeland, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Schalonda Beatrice Johnson also was shot during the incident.

Geddie is charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.

Lanier County has no jail, said Colquitt County sheriff’s Capt. Julius Cox. He had been housed in two other facilities prior to his stay here.

Geddie initially was charged in Colquitt County with two counts of felony obstruction of an officer and one misdemeanor count, but those charges were dismissed, Cox said.