ALVARADO (January 4, 2010)—A 33-year-old Johnson County man who was shot by a deputy sheriff who responded Sunday evening to a violent domestic dispute was under guard Monday in a Fort Worth Hospital.

The disturbance was reported at around 5:30 p.m. Sunday at a home in the 4000 block of County Road 610 in Alvarado where authorities were told a man had attacked two of his three children and had threatened his wife and children.

There was evidence the man was armed, Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said in a press release Monday.

The woman and the children fled from the home before deputies arrived, Alford said.

As the first deputies on the scene surrounded the residence, the man ran inside the house and then out a rear door and toward a deputy who ordered him to stop and put down the weapon he was carrying, Alford said.

Instead, the man continued to rush toward the deputy with the weapon in his hand, Alford said.

The deputy then fired, Alford said, striking the man, who was taken to a Fort Worth hospital.

The press release Monday didn’t identify the man or provide any details about his injuries.

It also didn’t indicate the type of weapon with which the man was armed.

Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting.