Updated at 11:17 a.m. Tuesday: Revised to identify the victims.

The two women who were fatally shot at a Texas A&M University-Commerce residence hall Monday were sisters, the university announced in a news release.

The school’s police department confirmed their identities as 19-year-old Deja Matts and her sister, 20-year-old Abbaney Matts. Deja Matts was a freshman from Garland who was studying public health, the university said. Her sister was not enrolled on the Commerce campus.

The child who was hospitalized yesterday after the shooting was identified as Abbaney Matts’ 2-year-old son, the university said. He is now being cared for by family members, the university said. The child’s name has not been released.

The shooting appears to be a “targeted, isolated event," police said.

Police said they found the two women dead and the baby wounded after a student called them at 10:17 a.m.

In a Twitter post at 11:53 a.m., university officials told students, faculty and staff members to remain sheltered in place while the shootings at the Pride Rock residence hall were investigated.

The shelter-in-place request was lifted shortly before 1:30 p.m., and at the news conference Monday afternoon the police chief said there wasn’t a continuing threat on campus. University police had stationed officers throughout campus, including all key gathering points.

All classes, programs and events have been canceled through Wednesday, the university announced. But campus services for students will continue, and the faculty and staff are expected to report to work.

The university said counselors would be available at the Halladay Student Services building for anyone who needed assistance.

A resident is escorted out of the Pride Rock residence hall where two women were fatally shot and a toddler was wounded Monday at Texas A&M University-Commerce on Feb. 3, 2020 in Commerce, Texas. (Juan Figueroa / Staff photographer)

Larry Cooper III, a freshman at the university, lives in Pride Rock, a three-story residence hall for freshmen. He said he left his room, which is on the second floor, just before the shelter-in-place was announced.

“I actually left earlier than I usually leave,” he said. “If I hadn’t left my room a few minutes earlier I would be stuck in my room right now. Anyone still on the second floor can’t leave their room.”

He said he waited in a friend’s room on the first floor of the residence hall during the shelter-in-place with a few other students.

“There’s police blocking the doorways, but other than that we’re all just kind of sitting in and waiting on the news to happen,” said Cooper, the son of a Dallas Morning News employee.

Darius Myers, a freshman studying nursing at A&M-Commerce, said the feeling on campus Monday wasn’t new to him.

“It’s kind of like deja vu,” he said, recalling a similar gloomy feeling cast over the campus in October, when two people were fatally shot at a party celebrating the school’s homecoming week in nearby Greenville.

Myers and two of his football teammates, Jordan Polk and Uzo Ebinama, left the Pride Rock residence hall Monday afternoon. They said they were told they wouldn’t be allowed to come back for the day while law enforcement worked inside.

Many students already had gone home for the day, they said.

Law enforcement officials had cordoned off the dorm with yellow police line, and the students left through a side door, saying they weren’t allowed to use the main entrance.

Myers, Polk and Ebinama were all sleeping after getting back to the dorms from a football workout when the shooting happened, they said. None of them woke up to the sound of gunfire, though they all live on the second floor, just around the corner from where the shooting was, they said.

Brittney Davis, a junior, and Carrie Banks, a freshman, said they were anxious to learn more information about the shooting.

Davis said they’re worried they could know one of the victims.

“Right now, we don’t have a good feeling,” she said. “But I’m still trying to keep hope and prayers for her family, at least.”

Davis said the campus will need time to grieve.

“We just need to get everybody’s mind right, because right now, we’re all shell-shocked,” she said. “We want information — I know it’s sensitive information — but you have to let us know something so we know what move to make.”

Banks and Davis said they know violence can happen anywhere, but they wished the campus was less accessible to the public so that students would feel safer.

"If it can happen anywhere, why not try to reduce the amount of access people have to us?" Davis said.

“I understand it’s a public school, but there needs to be more safety precautions,” Banks said.

The university allows handguns in campus dorms, and licensed individuals may carry concealed handguns on campus, with some exceptions including the campus counseling and health centers, certain science labs and sporting events.

A student who wants to store a handgun in a dorm must provide a safe that only he or she has access to, according to the university’s policy.

The firearms policies are designed to comply with the state’s Concealed Campus Carry law, which went into effect in 2016.