Four people are dead following what police in Los Angeles have characterized as a murder-suicide. The Los Angeles Police Department says officers responded shortly.

Four people are dead following what police in Los Angeles characterized as a murder-suicide in the Granada Hills area on Saturday.

Officers responded shortly before 7 p.m. to a report of a shooting in the 11600 block of Lerdo Avenue and found four people who were pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators determined the shooting was a murder-suicide, the Los Angeles Police Department said.