{"id":48221,"date":"2025-11-16T00:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48221\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:48:22","slug":"pritchard-set-to-attend-fsu-home-finale-months-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/48221\/","title":{"rendered":"Pritchard set to attend FSU home finale months after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andrea AdelsonNov 15, 2025, 01:25 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a> ACC reporter.
\n Joined ESPN.com in 2010.
\n Graduate of the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

Florida State<\/a> freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard<\/a> has been released from in-patient rehab and is expected to attend the Seminoles’ final home game of the season against Virginia Tech<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Pritchard returned to Tallahassee on Friday and visited with the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He plans to continue his rehab back home in Central Florida, and told WESH-TV in an interview his plan is to play football again.<\/p>\n

Pritchard was shot in the back of the head<\/a> Aug. 31 in what the authorities have described as a case of mistaken identity. He was dropping his aunt and a child off following a family party in Havana, Fla., about 16 miles from Tallahassee, near the Georgia state line.<\/p>\n

Four people were arrested last month in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n

Pritchard told WESH, “I remember everything. I turned the corner and shots rang off. I put the car in reverse and just backed up and after that, I don’t remember what else happened.”<\/p>\n

Pritchard spent nearly six weeks in the hospital in Tallahassee before moving to a rehab center in Jacksonville. In the interview with WESH, Pritchard said he could not move his right side when he arrived at the rehab facility.<\/p>\n

But early one morning, he woke up his dad, Earl, because he could finally move his arm.<\/p>\n

“After that, it just got better and better,” Ethan Pritchard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrea AdelsonNov 15, 2025, 01:25 AM Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-48221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48221","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=48221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}