Louisville Metro Police found two dead children in an Okolona area home on Thursday morning. They checked the home at the request of University of Louisville police after a student was involved in a hostage situation in the university campus, police officials said.

Police officers managed to disarm the female student after about a half-hour of negotiations. Nobody was injured in the incident that took place in the student health center at the University campus.

However, after the university police disarmed the student, they quickly noticed the city police that they should check on the state of the children living at the 4700 block on Settle Boulevard.

The two children were found "fatally wounded" according to Louisville Officer Phil Russell. He wouldn’t elaborate on the cause of the death.

It is not clear in the police report whether the student was the children’s mother. Her identity wasn’t released by police and University President James Ramsey only confirmed the fact that she was a female, but didn’t release her identity. The only detail he released was that the female student was taken from the university to a hospital psychiatric ward.

The university police received a call at about 8:32 a.m. in which they were asked to come and help escort the female to University Hospital's emergency room for mental-health reasons. Minutes later, they received an alarm because the female student had taken a counselor hostage using a gun, James Ramsey said.

The police officer received back-up and managed to disarm the woman at about 9:15 a.m., but not before calling the city police about the threats made by the female student regarding family off-campus.

According to Patty Schneider, a neighbor of the student arrested by police, the woman is a widow and lived there with her two children over the past 11 years. She estimated the kids were 13 and 11 of age.

"It just all seems like it's going to be a bad dream and I'm going to wake up from it. How am I ever going to look out the front of my house again?" said Schneider, who was visibly shaken by the killings.