{"id":276710,"date":"2026-09-01T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276710\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:16:09","slug":"pa-police-officer-charged-with-voluntary-manslaughter-in-killing-of-college-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276710\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in killing of college student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORRISTOWN \u2014 A Pennsylvania police officer who fatally shot a 22-year-old college student has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, a prosecutor said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Upper Pottsgrove Police Cpl. Sean Farrell, 58, is charged in the Aug. 23 death of Glenwood Earl Pysher IV.<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomery County Detective Bureau investigated the shooting and reviewed footage from Farrell\u2019s body-worn camera, the district attorney\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the District Attorney, it is my role under the law to evaluate the totality of the circumstances of any fatal shooting by police and to determine whether that use of lethal force was justified under the law,\u201d Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said in a news release. \u201cThe investigation found that Cpl. Farrell had less-than-lethal options on his utility belt that he did not employ, including a taser. At the time of the shooting, the officer was a safe distance from Pysher behind a car, and the victim had his hands in the air and did not possess any type of weapon. Mr. Pysher was not a threat. This is not a legal use of deadly force, leading to the charge of voluntary manslaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORRISTOWN \u2014 A Pennsylvania police officer who fatally shot a 22-year-old college student has been charged with voluntary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-276710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}