4 arrests made in connection with shooting of FSU football player

Several arrests have been made after the shooting of Florida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard.

Four people have been arrested in connection with last month’s shooting of the Seminoles freshman Pritchard, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass revealed on Wednesday (per ESPN). Those four people have been identified as as Jayden Bodison, Caron Miller, Germany Atkins, and an unnamed minor.

Morris Young, Gadsden County Sheriff, was also quoted as saying that authorities believe that Pritchard was shot in a case of mistaken identity.

A 6-foot-2, 219-pound linebacker from Sanford, Fla., Pritchard got shot in the back of the head on Aug. 31 while in his vehicle outside of an apartment complex in Havana, Fla. (details here). Glass said in his remarks on Wednesday that Pritchard was dropping off family members (an aunt and a child) at the time he was shot and that Pritchard was “not doing anything wrong.”

Pritchard remains in critical but stable condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, Bodison, Miller, and the unnamed minor have been charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle. Atkins has also been charged with one count of probation violation.

A four-star recruit out of Seminole High School in Sanford, Fla., Pritchard committed to Florida State back in 2023 as a high school junior. He did not play in Florida State’s season opener against Alabama (a 31-17 upset victory) on the day before the shooting. FSU then went on to defeat East Texas A&M by a 77-3 final score in Week 2 and now sits as the No. 10-ranked team in the nation.