Two people are dead and a third has been hospitalized after a shooting on campus Monday at Texas A&M University-Commerce’s Pride Rock Residence Hall. University Police are investigating the incident.
Students, faculty and staff are instructed to take shelter and stay in place until further notice. This is a precautionary measure.
A&M-Commerce UPD is actively investigating three gunshot victims in Pride Rock Residence Hall on the A&M-Commerce campus.— A&M-Commerce (@tamuc) February 3, 2020
Earlier Monday, students and staff were instructed to shelter in place due to an active criminal investigation. That shelter in place order has been lifted.
Shari LePage Stout, the mother of a third-year Texas A&M Commerce student, said her whole family is in shock after the incident.
“Everybody talks about gun laws and gun control but who do you blame,” she said. “You may think as a parent sending your child to school you have nothing to worry about but I guess I was wrong.”
LePage Stout said she wondered what was going through the shooter’s mind.
“Sometimes I think there’s too much hatred in the world and if this person got caught up in it,” she said.
Shelter and counselors are being provided to students at Rayburn Student Center.
Pride Rock is a three-story residence hall for freshmen. All classes at A&M-Commerce were cancelled Monday.
The Commerce Independent School District also went into lockdown, barring anyone from entering or exiting school buildings.
In October, two people were killed and a dozen wounded at an off-campus shooting which occurred at a college party involving Texas A&M-Commerce students. The event was not school-sanctioned.
This is a developing story.
Updated 3 p.m.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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