Ethan Pritchard has been discharged from Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville and is heading back to Tallahassee following months of recovery from a gunshot wound to the head.
The Florida State football linebacker spent over a month in the intensive care unit at TMH after being shot in the head in August while taking his aunt and a 3-year-old cousin home from a family dinner.
The freshman was shot near the Havana Heights Apartments, and all four suspects have been arrested in the shooting.
Pritchard was transferred to Brooks Rehabilitation, where he spent a month doing rehabilitation work.
Pritchard has been talking and able to lift weights, while also attempting to walk, according to information shared by himself and the family on social media.
He left the rehab center in Jacksonville on Thursday, Nov. 13, in a motorized chair, while serenaded with thunderous applause from hospital staff and family, as seen in a video shared by Orlando-based WESH2 reporter Stewart Moore.
Pritchard told Moore that he wants to return to the football field. He would be going to rehab up to eight times a day as he learned how to walk and speak again.
Speaking to Moore, Pritchard said he started working on moving his right arm when he got to rehab, as he was unable to move that side of his body.
“When I first got here, I couldn’t even move my whole right side,” Pritchard said. “It started off with that, and after that it just got better and better.”
Pritchard, a four-star linebacker, signed with FSU out of Seminole High School in Sanford, northeast of Orlando.
Liam Rooney covers Florida State athletics for the Tallahassee Democrat. Contact him via email at LRooney@gannett.com or on Twitter @__liamrooney
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