In the early hours of an August morning in Pennsylvania, a 22-year-old college student named Glenwood Earl Pysher knocked on the wrong door while searching for friends, and that simple, human error became fatal. A police officer arrived, issued commands that Pysher obeyed — hands raised, walking forward — and then fired twice from twenty feet away. The body camera captured what words later tried to obscure, and now a voluntary manslaughter charge asks a court to weigh the distance between a lawful command and a lawful killing.
Pennsylvania officer charged in fatal shooting of unarmed student at wrong house
Glenwood Earl Pysher, 22, was fatally shot twice in the chest by police officer Sean Farrell while complying with orders with hands raised.