SCHENECTADY (AP) -- Authorities say a woman and a man have been found dead in a Schenectady home in what police are calling a murder-suicide.

Police tell local media outlets that officers were called to the house around 1 p.m. Thursday for a report of a man threatening a woman with a knife. Authorities say when officers arrived, they found the man and woman dead inside the home.

Police say the man killed the woman, then committed suicide.

Officials haven't released their names, details of the couple's relationship or how they died.

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