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Two adults and two children were found dead in a Westchester home on Thursday in a suspected murder-suicide, police and reports said.

The bodies were discovered around 1:50 p.m. at the home on Romer Avenue in tony Pleasantville by cops responding to a welfare check request, Police Chief Erik Grutzner said at a press conference.

Sources told WABC-TV the incident is suspected to be a murder-suicide, and that it appeared a man killed his wife and two young children.

Grutzner said the four people appeared to be members of the same family.

A neighbor told the outlet that the husband “worked in the banking world.”

Police Chief Erik Grutzner said at a press conference the four people appeared to be members of the same family. He didn’t provide their names or ages.

Pleasantville Mayor Peter Scherer said the “community is reeling in the wake of a tragedy.”

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