A man stabbed a woman to death before stabbing and killing himself in the middle of a road in Danbury Friday afternoon, according to police.
A Danbury officer on patrol in the area of High Ridge Road just after 12 p.m. heard people yelling. As the officer pulled onto the street, he saw a man standing over a woman in the road, police said.
As the officer got out of his vehicle, the man turned towards him while holding a survial-type knife. Police say the man began to stab himself in the chest and collapsed to the ground.
The woman had also been stabbed several times, police said.
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Both were rushed to the hospital where they later died.
Police said the man and woman were in a relationship and lived together in a home on High Ridge Road.
Police have not released the identities of either the man or the woman.
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