A man and woman are dead following what’s believed to have been a murder-suicide Monday in the Lake Balboa area of the San Fernando Valley, police said.

Officers responded about 4:15 p.m. to the 16800 block of Covello Street, near the intersection of Balboa Boulevard and Saticoy Street, according to Officer Jeff Lee of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section.

They found the man and woman, each of them with gunshot wounds, Lee said.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the man was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, Lee said.