The Florida State athletic department sent out an email Thursday afternoon announcing that freshman linebacker Ethan Pritchard has been released from Tallahassee Memorial Hospital and is being moved to Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville for the next stage in his recovery process.

Pritchard, who played high school football at Sanford’s Seminole High, is recovering from a gunshot wound suffered on the night of Aug. 31. Pritchard was visiting family in nearby Havana and was giving his aunt and young cousin a ride from the gathering when the vehicle he was driving was ambushed with gunfire.

Pritchard was shot in the back of the head and medical personnel eventually arrived and rushed him to TMH. He had surgery that night and doctors monitored him for several weeks, concerned about fluid

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