Sheffield police say a 10-year-old boy was wounded Sunday night during a domestic incident that resulted in the deaths of two people.

WAFF is reporting the child was transported to a Birmingham hospital.

Sheffield Police Chief Ricky Terry said the incident happened at about 10 p.m. at the Park Place Apartments. The station, citing a police officer, said the child was wounded will trying to protect his mother.

Terry said the shooting is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

The names of the two dead have not yet been released.