Man Gives Up After Gunfight With Deputies : Santa Clarita: The incident begins as a domestic dispute and escalates when officers are called to investigate. One man is injured.

A man surrendered to sheriff’s deputies Saturday night after a domestic dispute escalated into a gunfight that eventually involved two sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.

It all began Saturday morning when a woman was assaulted and threatened at knifepoint by Dan Grogan, her estranged husband, said Sgt. Ron Spear, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Grogan returned to the woman’s trailer home in the 12800 block of West Sierra Highway about 5 p.m. and began firing at the structure from a nearby hillside, Spear said.

At least four male friends the woman had called for protection fired back, and a gun battle with Grogan could be heard throughout a remote area east of Santa Clarita, Spear said.

When deputies from the Santa Clarita station responded to a call of shots fired, at least four men, and possibly as many as seven, began firing at the deputies, Spear said.

The deputies returned fire, but did not hit any of the men, Spear said.

William Dean Garoutte, 48, of Newhall was wounded in the gunfire exchange between the two parties, Spear said. He was first taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital and later to an undisclosed hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound, Spear said. He said the Sheriff’s Department was sending a homicide investigation team to the scene “on the outside possibility that the injured man was wounded by a deputy.”

According to Deputy Irma Becerra of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau, Grogan called deputies about 7:20 p.m. and offered to turn himself in. He later surrendered to Antelope Valley sheriff’s deputies, Spear said.

Four detectives at the Santa Clarita station struggled to sort out the violent family dispute, and no one was sure whether all the suspects had been apprehended, said Sgt. Barry Sandstrom.

“What we have is a great, big mess,” Sandstrom said. “We don’t know whether we have all the players who were involved out there.”

Sandstrom said Thomas Riley of San Fernando, Robert Schearer of Sylmar and Christopher Elmore of Newhall, and another male who was not identified because he may be a juvenile were to be interviewed through the evening to help determine who was involved in the shooting assault against the deputies.

Spear said he expected those responsible for firing at the deputies would be charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a law enforcement officer.

Stretches of Sierra Highway were sealed off as deputies tried to restore order to the area.