Texas A&M Football Players Recovering At Jackson Memorial

MIAMI, FL -- Miami police are trying to determine who shot two Texas A&M University-Commerce football players over the weekend as the athletes recover at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

"All we are able to confirm at this point is that we are handling an investigation where two football player students at Texas A&M University-Commerce who were here for spring break were robbed at gunpoint and then shot at approximately 5:26 a.m. on Saturday," explained Officer Kiara Delva of the Miami Police Department told Patch on Tuesday.

Miami police were withholding other details of the shooting, including the location where it took place.

But the school's athletic director, Tim McMurray, identified the students as linebackers Xavier Morris and Jay Bias.

"They are clinically stable and improving," McMurray told ABC News."

The families of the wounded students said they were grateful for the support and prayers they received from the community and particularly from Psi Phi Fraternity and Texas A&M-Commerce.

"As they continue their remarkable progress and recovery from this unthinkable act of violence, we ask everyone to please respect our families and our focus on their support and recovery, as they are both clinically stable," the families said in a joint statement. "We will not be making further comments on this matter so we can focus on the well-being of our sons and their return to Texas."

McMurray said his players had just arrived in Miami for vacation and were hungry.

"They had gone to a grocery store, just getting food for breakfast," he told ABC News. "They had come in on a red eye to start spring break and literally the first place they went was to the grocery store. And, unfortunately they didn't quite make it back."

The athletics program along with the Lone Star Conference and the NCAA set up a GoFundMe page to assist both families with expenses. Click here to make a donation.

"As an institution, we continue to focus on supporting the Bias and Morris families and all those associated with this horrific incident," university officials said.