A Loyalsock Township man surrendered Tuesday morning to face charges stemming from a domestic disturbance in November that sent him, his son and the son’s girlfriend all to the hospital.

Andrew Anthony Dixon, 45, who suffered a stab wound during the disturbance, has been charged with shooting his son’s girlfriend during a heated argument he was having with his son in the family’s home at 1429 Grampian Blvd. about 10 a.m. on Nov. 21, police said in an affidavit.

“The bullet traveled through the girlfriend’s stomach and then passed through the son’s hand and lodged in the son’s stomach,” Trooper David Batkowski, the lead investigator in the case, said in the court document.

The girlfriend was between the two men when Dixon fired his gun after his son stabbed him, the investigator alleged.

Dixon told police that as his son was yelling at him in the son’s basement bedroom, the girlfriend was holding the son back.

The father said that when he approached the bedroom and saw a knife in his son’s hand, he “pulled his gun from his waistband,” Batkowski alleged in the affidavit.

The girlfriend tried to calm the son down, the trooper said, adding that the father pushed the son away after he “got in the father’s face.”

It was at that moment that Dixon “felt that he had been stabbed,” Batkowski said. Dixon then allegedly fired his gun once, striking the girlfriend, it was stated in the court document.

The son told police he and his girlfriend “were chilling” in his room when his father came in and started an argument. The son said he “presented” a pocket knife after his father first pulled out a handgun. The father allegedly punched his son in the chest. The girlfriend tried to separate the two as the argument was turning physical, the son told police.

Dixon told Batkowski that he told his son that he “needed to move out and find another place to live.”

The girlfriend stated to investigators that “the entire incident was over butter in the refrigerator. A note was left on the refrigerator that said ‘If you didn’t buy it, then don’t use it.’ The son ripped the note down,” according to the affidavit. The son had received texts from his father about using the butter.

The disturbance and subsequent violence erupted when Dixon arrived home from work.

Both the son and the girlfriend are 18, police said.

Dixon was arraigned before District Judge William Solomon on charges of aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault and possession of a weapon. He was released on $50,000 bail. No one else has yet been charged in the case.