{"id":47588,"date":"2025-11-15T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:44:13","slug":"fsu-freshman-ethan-pritchard-returns-to-campus-nearly-3-months-after-getting-shot-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47588\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU freshman Ethan Pritchard returns to campus nearly 3 months after getting shot | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida State freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fsu-ethan-pritchard-shot-4cbb2b790cd7d9a98c1d119dfb14d7ab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was shot<\/a> in the back of the head following the team\u2019s season opener in August, is expected to attend the Seminoles&#8217; home finale Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard, a four-star recruit from Sanford, Florida, was released from Tallahassee Memorial Hospital early last month and transferred to Brooks to continue his recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Pritchard was \u201cnot doing anything wrong\u201d when he was shot outside an apartment complex on Aug. 31 near Tallahassee, authorities said. Pritchard was dropping off an aunt and a child following a family party when he was attacked in what officials said was a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember everything,&#8221; Pritchard said in an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando. &#8220;I 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>Pritchard added that he couldn&#8217;t move his right side when he <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fsu-ethan-pritchard-shot-d2ac6dfe0e62297f859d4f182317503a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrived at the rehab facility<\/a> in Jacksonville. But he woke up one morning with movement that continues to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Florida State freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard, who was shot in the back of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[111,143,30915,477,110,22819,232,234,233,1110],"class_list":["post-47588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-college-sports","tag-college-football","tag-florida-state-ethan-pritchard","tag-general-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47588","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=47588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}