{"id":47202,"date":"2025-11-15T00:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:33:10","slug":"florida-states-ethan-pritchard-to-attend-game-months-after-being-shot-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47202\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State&#8217;s Ethan Pritchard to attend game months after being shot in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard returned to Florida State\u2019s campus for the first time since being shot in the head on Aug. 31 and is expected to attend the Seminoles\u2019 home finale Saturday against Virginia Tech, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard, who said he plans to play football again, was released from an inpatient rehab Thursday and rang the bell before leaving Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-state-ethan-pritchard-e07edd98a36125fc4504415338dcb68f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While on the FSU campus on Friday, head coach Mike Norvell asked if he had a message for the team, and Pritchard said to \u201cgo win,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/news\/ethan-pritchard-visits-fsu-practice-for-first-time-since-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to On3.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HEARTWARMING: Florida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard is heading home after leaving patient care today.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard, 19-years-old, was shot in the back of the head in August and has miraculously recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Ethan left with a standing ovation from the staff.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EPu0HeGmD2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EPu0HeGmD2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YcblI5URDL\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/YcblI5URDL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLFootball (@MLFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLFootball\/status\/1989069544653303996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethan Pritchard is pictured. MLFootball\/X<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard, a four-star recruit out of Seminole High School who didn\u2019t play in the FSU opener the same day as the incident, was shot in the back of the head while dropping his aunt and a child off following a family party, with police labeling it a case of mistaken identity and arresting four people following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember everything,\u201d Pritchard said in an interview with WESH-TV, according to the AP. \u201cI turned the corner and shots rang off. I put the car in reverse and just backed up and after that, I don\u2019t remember what else happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Pritchard was released from Brooks Rehabilitation. MLFootball\/X<\/p>\n<p>In the days after the shooting, Norvell told reporters that \u201cit\u2019s a lot, not going to say it\u2019s not,\u201d according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Caron Miller (18), Germany Atkins (23), Jayden Bodison (22) and a 16-year-old juvenile were arrested, and Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said at the time that Pritchard did \u201cabsolutely nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to give the players a daily update,\u201d Norvell told reporters in early September. \u201c\u2026 We are absolutely praying for him every day and trying to be there for our players, too. Yes, it\u2019s one thing on the field, but it\u2019s also off the field, that\u2019s one of their brothers and a guy they deeply care about. <\/p>\n<p>Ethan Pritchard walks to a game in 2023. AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust working through this part of the tragedy of what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Seminoles sit at 4-5 with three games left in the season entering their matchup with Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard returned to Florida State\u2019s campus for the first time since being shot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,28,30,29,3731,6889,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-47202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-florida-state-seminoles","13":"tag-shootings","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}