KEOKUK — A Keokuk man was arrested early Tuesday after allegedly shooting a firearm inside a home during a domestic situation and hiding from police inside the home for several hours.

Keokuk police were called to the home of Joseph Daniel Cass, 31, 107 South 19th St., shortly before 11 p.m. Monday for a domestic situation with a shot fired inside the home, Assistant Chief Jay Whitaker said in a press release.

When officers arrived, they found Cass and a female victim outside the home. Whitaker declined to say whether the woman was in danger while outside the home as the incident remains under investigation. As officers approached Cass, he ran inside and refused to come out.

"There is an armed person who allegedly discharged a firearm in a house at, or in the direction of, his live-in girlfriend," Lee County Attorney Ross Braden told the board of supervisors Tuesday. "She described the firearm to be an AK-47. She had been able to get out of the house, officers had arrived about midnight or so, and the guy had barricaded himself in."

Iowa State Patrol negotiators were called to assist, and, after several hours of talks, the suspect turned himself in without incident.

Despite some difficulty logging into the county's system, Braden was able to get a search warrant for Cass's home signed by a judge. Upon searching the home, officers found a firearm.

Cass was arrested on a Lee County warrant for voluntary absence from custody and a charge of domestic abuse assault while displaying a dangerous weapon, an aggravated misdemeanor.

Whitaker said additional charges are possible.

The Keokuk Police Department was assisted by the Tactical Response Unit, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol and Lee County Attorney’s Office.