Pennsylvania police officer charged​ with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting student at wrong home

Updated on: September 1, 2026 / 4:52 PM EDT / CBS Philadelphia

An Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after allegedly shooting and killing a college student who was at the wrong house.

Upper Pottsgrove Police Cpl. Sean Farrell was charged with voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV on Aug. 23, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced Tuesday.

Officials said Pysher knocked on the door of the wrong home after being out at a bar with friends. What followed was a very quick interaction with Farrell and a shooting that Steele said was not justified.

"This is not a legal use of lethal force," Steele said.

Steele said Pysher was out at a bar early on Aug. 23 before deciding to walk to a friend's house. But he knocked on the wrong door, leading the homeowners to report a break-in. According to a criminal complaint, Pysher had sent his friends a picture of the house he was at, and they realized he was in the wrong place, so he then sent them his location so they could come get him.

Before Pysher's friends arrived, Farrell showed up and…

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