In the darkness of a late August night in Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old college baseball player named Glenwood Pysher made a simple navigational error after a birthday celebration — and was shot twice in the chest by a responding officer while standing unarmed with his hands raised. On September 2nd, Corporal Sean Farrell was charged with voluntary manslaughter, a reckoning that places this moment inside a much longer human struggle over when lethal force is justified and what we owe one another in moments of confusion and fear. The case asks, as so many before it have
Pa. officer charged in shooting death of N.J. college student at wrong house
Glenwood Pysher, 22, was fatally shot by police while unarmed and with hands raised after mistakenly approaching the wrong house.