Two children were found dead in a home Thursday morning by police sent to check on them after an armed University of Louisville student was briefly involved in a hostage-taking on campus. University President James Ramsey confirmed that the armed woman on campus is a student but would not identify her. He says she was taken from the university to a hospital psychiatric ward. Her relationship to the children was not released.

Louisville police were asked to check on the children by university police after they encountered the woman. Louisville Officer Phil Russell said officers found the children "fatally wounded."

Responding to the armed woman, police arrived at the university's health services building at 8:39 a.m. and found a hostage situation, university spokeswoman Cindy Hess said. Hess says she doesn't know how many people were taken hostage. The woman was disarmed shortly after 9 a.m. There were no injuries, Hess said.

The school sent safety alerts to student phones, cell phones and posted one on its Web site. Hess says the campus was not locked down.

The two-story red brick home where the children were found is in a tidy middle-class neighborhood. A garden at the home has a statue of two children playing with a bicycle. The neighborhood is about 10 miles south of the university campus.

Written By BRETT BARROUQUERE

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