A 45-year-old Niles man is in the Trumbull County Jail following a confrontation with Niles Police Officers.

Police were called to the 600 block of Vienna Avenue late Monday after a woman called 911 saying she was hiding from her intoxicated husband in a bedroom closet.

According to police, the suspect was also threatening police over 911.

Shots were fired by a Niles Police Officer after they were confronted by the suspect who was allegedly intoxicated and holding what appeared to be a gun.

No one was injured in the officer involved shooting but the case is now under investigation by two agencies as a matter of protocol.

It all began as a domestic call.

But police would later learn the gun that appeared all too real, was actually an air pistol.

Listening to the 911 call you can hear what appears to be three shots fired, screaming by the suspect's daughter, and then you hear the suspect 45-year-old Eric Gladhill yell to police "What the f--- are you doing in my house?"

It happened as officers responded to the 600 block of Vienna Avenue in Niles just before midnight on Monday.

45-year-old Eric Gladhill's wife called 911 from a bedroom closet with her 12 year old daughter huddled nearby.

"My husband came home and he's drunk and he's throwing things up and he's arguing with me.  He's arguing with my son, he just threw everything off my son's desk," the suspect's wife told the 911 dispatcher.

Gladhill was not hit by the gunfire and fled upstairs, but moments later he came back downstairs and turned himself into police.

As his weapon was retrieved authorities learned it appeared to be a replica of a 9-millimeter Smith and Wesson, an air pistol, not a real gun.

Captain John Marshall who is the Public Information Officer for the Niles Police Department says, "You've looked at that photo of the gun for several seconds and I still see that you're struggling with this, it still looks like a real gun to you.  And that's what we have to deal with, sometimes we have less than a second to make that decision."

Following normal protocol the Niles Firearms Review Panel of the Police Department will determine if this was a "good shoot," and in accordance with police policy.  The Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation will conduct a separate review to make sure everything was done by the book.

Gladhill is in the Trumbull County Jail facing charges of domestic violence and aggravated menacing.

Niles Police are not releasing the name of the officer involved while the investigation is being conducted, they are also not releasing the video from the body cameras during the on-going investigation.