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Four arrests made in connection with the shooting of FSU linebacker |
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Ethan Pritchard, authorities say |
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Four people have been arrested in connection to the shooting of Florida |
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State linebacker , Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) |
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Commissioner Mark Glass said Wednesday. |
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Glass said Pritchard was “not doing anything wrong” when he was |
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ambushed outside an apartment last month. He added that Pritchard was |
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dropping off family members, an aunt and a child, when he was shot in |
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the back of the head. |
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Pritchard, a six-foot-two, 224-pound freshman from Sanford, remains in |
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critical but stable condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. He was |
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shot August 31 while inside a vehicle outside apartments in Havana, |
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according to the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office. |
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Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said authorities believe |
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Pritchard’s shooting was a case of mistaken identity. |
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Jayden Bodison, Caron Miller, Germany Atkins and an unnamed minor have |
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been arrested in connection with the shooting, the FDLE said. Bodison, |
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Miller and the juvenile were charged with three counts of attempted |
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murder and one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle. Atkins was |
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charged with one count of probation violation. It was not immediately |
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clear if any of the accused had attorneys. |
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Pritchard did not play in Florida State’s season opener, a 31-17 |
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victory Saturday over No. 8 Alabama in Tallahassee on August 30. |
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“I recruited him for years, got a chance to watch him grow,” FSU |
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coach Mike Norvell said Saturday. “The way that he plays the game, |
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it’s a passion, energy. He loves it, absolutely loves it. |
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“To know that right now that’s taken away from him in a senseless |
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act … you don’t always know why you have to go through things in |
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life. You don’t understand the reasoning. But I do believe that God |
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has his hand over Ethan and this football team and just all the |
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relationships.” |
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Ethan’s father, Earl, attended Florida State’s win over East Texas |
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A&M on Saturday. He was on the sideline and in the locker room |
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afterward. |
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“He’s a wonderful man,” Norvell said. “And being with him, I |
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know it’s so very hard for anybody to have to go through. … But he |
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told me earlier this week, ‘I know where my boy wants to be, so I’m |
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going to go stand in his place for him.’” |
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