DEERFIELD, N.Y. (WKTV) - A Utica Police officer stabbed his wife to death, then turned the knife on himself Monday afternoon in an apparent murder-suicide.

According to State Police, they responded to a 911 call around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon at 10508 Cosby Manor Road in Deerfield. Authorities said a child had discovered the bodies of their parents in their home - both were bleeding from stab wounds.

A female victim, Kristin Longo, 39, was dead at the scene, while her husband, Joseph Longo Jr., 41, was alive, but severely bleeding. At the scene, Longo admitted to police that he had stabbed his wife multiple times with a household knife and then turned the knife on himself. The knife was recovered at the scene. When asked if, Longo being a police officer, any guns were found at the scene, Coots said no.

Longo, an active Utica Police Investigator for several years, and a part-time security officer at Proctor High School, was taken from the scene by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center, where he died of his self-inflicted wounds around 4:30 p.m Monday afternoon.

The couple were found in what Coots referred to as "a common room" of the Cosby Manor Road. Coots said they were still processing the residence, and so far, no note describing reasons for the actions was found.

No motive had been identified Monday night.

"We may never know," said State Police Captain Francis Coots.

When asked about any history of domestic violence in the family, Coots said that no police agency had ever been called to that residence.

The Longos had four children - two boys ages 9 and 17, and two girls ages 13 and 15. Three of those children currently live at the Cosby Manor Road home. Captain Coots said that the children are being given counseling.

"The children are the ones who will have to suffer", said Coots.

New York State Police are handling the investigation.