{"id":45938,"date":"2025-11-14T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45938\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:14:07","slug":"fsus-ethan-pritchard-released-from-rehab-months-after-surviving-gunshot-to-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45938\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU’s Ethan Pritchard released from rehab, months after surviving gunshot to the head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Pritchard has been discharged from Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville<\/a> and is heading back to Tallahassee following months of recovery from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n

The Florida State football linebacker<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

The freshman was shot near the Havana Heights\u00a0<\/a>Apartments, and\u00a0all four suspects have been arrested in the shooting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pritchard was transferred to Brooks Rehabilitation, where he spent a month doing rehabilitation work.<\/p>\n

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.<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Pritchard, a four-star linebacker, signed with FSU out of Seminole High School in Sanford, northeast of Orlando.<\/p>\n

Liam Rooney covers\u00a0Florida State<\/a>\u00a0athletics for the Tallahassee Democrat. Contact him via email at LRooney@gannett.com or on Twitter @__liamrooney<\/p>\n

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