FSU football player Ethan Pritchard reunites with team after shooting
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Florida State football player Ethan Pritchard had an emotional reunion with his teammates at practice on Friday.
Pritchard had been away from the team after being shot in the back of the head a day after FSU upset the Alabama Crimson Tide in August.
The linebacker was hospitalized for several weeks after the shooting.
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Linebacker Ethan Pritchard of the Florida State Seminoles during the first day of practice at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, in July 2025. (Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)
After discharge, the freshman checked into a rehabilitation center in Jacksonville. A bell rang and a standing ovation as he was released from the center on Thursday.
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The Seminoles are expected to participate in Saturday’s home finale against Virginia Tech. Pritchard was getting around in an electric wheelchair when he arrived at practice Friday to visit his teammates and coaches.
Florida State linebacker and former Seminole High School star Ethan Pritchard was shot during a meeting in Havana, just 30 minutes outside of Tallahassee, Florida. (Chris Hays/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Pritchard was a four-star high school recruit and Florida native.
Investigators determined that Pritchard was the victim of mistaken identity and “did nothing wrong” when he was shot outside an apartment complex near Tallahassee on Aug. 31. Authorities said Pritchard was dropping off his aunt and her child after a family party when he was attacked.
Florida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard walks into the stadium before a game against Duke on Oct. 21, 2023 in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
Four people were arrested in the shooting attack in September.
“I remember everything,” Pritchard said in an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando. “I turned the corner and I heard gunshots. I put the car in reverse and went back and I don’t remember what else happened after that.”
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Pritchard added that when he arrived at the rehab center in Jacksonville, he couldn’t move his right side, but when he woke up one morning, he was able to move and continued to recover.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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