Four arrested in shooting of Florida State…
Four people have been arrested in connection with the shooting of Florida State linebacker Ethan Pritchard that left him in essential but secure condition in a Florida hospital.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced that they’d arrested Carson Miller, 18; Germany Atkins, 23; Jayden Bodison, 22; and a 16-year-old juvenile in relation to the Aug. 31 shooting.
Miller, Bodison and the juvenile have been charged with three counts of tried homicide and one rely of shooting into an occupied vehicle. Atkinson was charged with one rely of probation violation.
Florid State linebacker Ethan Pritchard during the first day of Fall Football Practice at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus on July, 2025. Getty Images
Police made the arrests of the three grownup suspects after executing search warrants in the cities of Havana and Woodville.
The juvenile turned himself in at the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office.
During a Wednesday news convention, Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young told reporters that Pitchard was doing “absolutely nothing wrong” when he was shot in the back of the top as he was dropping off an aunt and a youngster, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.
Young also said Pritchard was in “the wrong place at the wrong time” and that it was believed that the 4 suspects have been concerned in the Aug. 25 shooting of Marcus Harris, which had occurred at the Havana Heights Apartments — the same location where Pritchard was shot.
“We believe in this investigation that it was a mistaken identity. I mentioned the first shooting when Marcus Harris was a victim on Tuesday, the 25th, we believe that the same type of car that Ethan was driving was involved in that shooting,” Young said.
“We don’t know that for a fact, but that’s the reason why they were sort of humming in on that particular vehicle. … I can say that Ethan was totally, totally nowhere near involved in this incident.”
Defensive back Earl Little Jr. holds the jersey of linebacker Ethan Pritchard before Florida State’s blowout home win over East Texas A&M on Sept. 6, 2025. AP
Pritchard, a freshman, has missed the first two video games of the season for Florida State, which has defeated Alabama and East Texas A&M.
Pritchard’s father, Earl, attended last Saturday’s recreation at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, becoming a member of the group on the sideline and in the locker room.
FSU head coach Mike Norvell told reporters on Saturday that Pritchard “absolutely loves” soccer.
“To know that right now that’s taken away from him in a senseless act … you don’t always know why you have to go through things in life,” Norvell said. “You don’t understand the reasoning. But I do believe that God has his hand over Ethan and this football team and just all the relationships.”
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