Texas ? A gunman shot and killed two police officers and critically injured a third while the officers were responding to a report of a domestic dispute at the man’s house, authorities said.

After the shootings Saturday night, the suspected gunman, 58-year-old Larry White, held police in a four-hour standoff until he surrendered around 10 p.m., Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said.

Investigators say a woman called authorities around 6:15 p.m. Saturday. When police arrived, she came out and told officers her husband had hit her, Mange said.

White’s wife then went inside next-door neighbor Raymond Graham’s house to use his phone, the neighbor said.

Police were unable enter the house through the front door. When they tried to go in the back door, a man began firing at them. He then came out of the house and continued shooting before retreating back inside, Mange said.

Killed were Cpls. Arlie Jones, 48, and John “Scott” Gardner, 30. Cpl. Abel Marquez, 32, who was shot in the face with buckshot, remained hospitalized Sunday in Lubbock in critical condition.

Graham said the officers returned fire, but they had already been hit.