{"id":384,"date":"2026-09-01T20:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:14:57","slug":"pennsylvania-police-officer-charged-in-fatal-shooting-of-student-who-went-to-wrong-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania police officer charged in fatal shooting of student who went to wrong house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher, 22, pictured in this undated photo, was fatally shot by a police officer in Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, Aug. 23, 2026. (Courtesy the Pysher family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(NEW YORK) — A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter stemming from the\u00a0fatal shooting this month<\/span>\u00a0of a college student whose parents said he was mistaken for a burglar after knocking on the door of a residence he wrongly thought was a friend’s house, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Cpl. Sean Farrell, a veteran member of the Upper Pottsgrove Township Police Department, was charged in the Aug. 23 death of Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele announced at a news conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Steele said he is “obligated under the law” to charge Farrell, who allegedly shot Pysher twice after responding to a 911 call from a homeowner reporting a break-in in progress.<\/p>\n

“At the time these two fatal shots were fired, Mr. Pysher had his hands up,” Steele said, citing footage from Farrell’s body-worn camera. “He had no weapon. He did not charge the officer or act aggressively in any way. He was not a threat to the homeowners who were inside their residence.”<\/p>\n

Steele further said that the body-worn camera video, which he did not play but from which he released a still image, showed Farrell claim to a colleague after the shooting that Pysher \u201ccharged\u201d him while \u201cscreaming and yelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body-worn camera video does not depict Pysher charging and does not depict yelling or screaming prior to the shooting,\u201d Steele said.<\/p>\n

Pysher’s parents told ABC News last week that before the shooting, their son had been out bar-hopping with a group celebrating a friend’s 21st birthday.<\/p>\n

Pysher’s mother, Erin Pysher, said that when the group decided to move the celebration to a friend’s house, her son walked to what he wrongly thought was the correct address.<\/p>\n

“He was walking down the road to what he thought was his friend’s house. And after some drinks, he ended up walking in the dark at night. I guess he got mixed up, and he made a wrong turn and went to the wrong house,” Erin Pysher said in a phone interview with ABC News.<\/p>\n

Pysher said her son was a student at Saint Elizabeth University in Morris Township, New Jersey, and was expected to begin the new school year last week.<\/p>\n

Steele said on Tuesday that while Pysher was apparently inebriated, he was complying with Farrell’s orders to put his hands up when he was shot.<\/p>\n

“He was not trying to escape and he did not commit a forcible felony. This is not a legal use of lethal force under Pennsylvania law,” Steele said.<\/p>\n

Farrell is being arraigned on the voluntary manslaughter charge Tuesday, according to Steele.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher, 22, pictured in this undated photo, was fatally shot by a police officer in Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, Aug. 23, 2026. (Courtesy the Pysher family) (NEW YORK) — A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter stemming from the\u00a0fatal shooting this month\u00a0of a college student whose parents said he was mistaken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}