Police in Greeley say officers shot and killed an armed man Friday morning.

Authorities say officers shot the man while responding about 6:30 a.m. to reports of a “bloody woman at the door of a residence asking for help.” When police arrived at the scene in the 600 block of 15th Avenue Court, authorities say officers found the armed man in the street.

“Officers ordered the (man) to drop the weapon,” police said in a news release. “He did not and during the confrontation with officers (he) was shot.”

The man was taken to the North Colorado Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police say they found a woman with gunshot wounds at the scene. She was also taken to North Colorado Medical Center and was in surgery, police said.

“The condition of the woman is not known at this time,” according to the release.

Authorities say the man’s and woman’s identities have not been confirmed.

“We’re still really early in the investigation,” Greeley police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych told The Denver Post.

Tymkowych said police don’t know yet what the relationship was between the man and woman. He added that investigators are still talking to witnesses.

Weld County prosecutors are investigating the case. No officers were injured in the encounter.

Guy Hathaway told The Greeley Tribune he woke up this morning to find the woman, his neighbor, covered in blood on his front porch and begging for help.

“This is absolutely horrible. I’ve never seen anything quite like this up close,” he told the newspaper.

“All I seen was the lady was laying on the steps next door on the house across the street from me,”said Thelma Hobbs, who lives on the block.

Hobbs said she saw a neighbor shaking the woman, trying to revive her.

“I thought it was firecrackers,” she said of the gunshots. “I guess it wasn’t firecrackers.”