FILE – Florida State defensive back Earl Little Jr. (0) right, holds the jersey of linebacker Ethan Pritchard (35), as he is joined by Duce Robinson (0), Darrell Jackson Jr. (6), and Luke Petitbon (51) before the start of an NCAA college football game against East Texas A&M, Sept. 6, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo\/Colin Hackley, File)FILE- Folorida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard walks to the stadium before an NCAA college football game against Duke, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo\/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)<\/p>\n
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FILE – Florida State defensive back Earl Little Jr. (0) right, holds the jersey of linebacker Ethan Pritchard (35), as he is joined by Duce Robinson (0), Darrell Jackson Jr. (6), and Luke Petitbon (51) before the start of an NCAA college football game against East Texas A&M, Sept. 6, 2025, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo\/Colin Hackley, File)<\/p>\n
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2013 Florida State freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard, who was shot<\/a> in the back of the head following the team\u2019s season opener in August, is expected to attend the Seminoles’ home finale Saturday.<\/p>\n Pritchard rang a bell and got a standing ovation<\/a> while being released from Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville on Thursday. He returned to Tallahassee on Friday and visited with teammates and coaches<\/a> from an electric wheelchair.<\/p>\n 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 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 Four people were arrested in September<\/a> in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember everything,” Pritchard said in an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando. “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 Pritchard added that he couldn’t move his right side when he arrived at the rehab facility<\/a> in Jacksonville. But he woke up one morning with movement that continues to improve.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n 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":"FILE – Florida State defensive back Earl Little Jr. (0) right, holds the jersey of linebacker Ethan Pritchard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30010,110,232,234,233,1110],"class_list":["post-47781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-ethan-pritchard","tag-sports","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\/47781","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=47781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}