Background: The house on Snyder Road in Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, where the shooting apparently occurred (WPVI/YouTube). Inset: Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher IV (GoFundMe).
A 22-year-old man believed he was at his friend’s house in Pennsylvania for a birthday celebration when he knocked on the wrong door and was shot and killed by a police officer, the victim’s family and investigators say.
Glenwood “Bubba” Pysher IV was identified in a GoFundMe as the victim of the “terrible accident.”
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele announced that the Montgomery County Detective Bureau is investigating the shooting.
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It was late on Saturday night, and Pysher was at a bar celebrating his friend’s birthday, his family told regional ABC affiliate WPVI. When it got late, the friends decided to move the celebration to one of their houses.
Pysher decided to walk, his mother, Erin Pysher, said.
He arrived at a home on Snyder Road in Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, believing it was his friend’s house, his parents said. The area is in Montgomery County, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The problem was that this house apparently did not belong to one of his friends.
He “ended up at the wrong house,” Erin Pysher told the TV station. “After having a few drinks, he didn’t know that, and so he was knocking on the back door saying, ‘Hey, let me in,’ thinking it was his friend’s house, but it wasn’t.”
The homeowners reportedly called 911 about “a possible attempted break-in,” and the Upper Pottsgrove Township Police Department was alerted. It is unclear how many officers responded, but at least one “arrived to find” Glenwood Pysher “in the rear of the residence,” the district attorney said.
“An encounter ensued and police fired at [Glenwood] Pysher, fatally striking him,” added Steele.
“At 12:32, he was on his phone with his friends. By 12:35, I believe he was already shot. So, within a few minutes, the cop showed up and shot him,” Erin Pysher stated. “He was unarmed. Had a cellphone and a book bag.”
The DA said the Montgomery County Detective Bureau responded to the scene and is investigating the shooting, as is “protocol for officer-involved shootings in the county.”
According to the fundraiser, Glenwood Pysher was “a promising young man, athlete, and scholar who loved his family dearly.” He was reportedly getting ready to play baseball at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey.
“Everyone who knew him will remember his love for baseball and the joy he found in catching balls, something that brought so much pride to his father, mother, three sisters, and the entire Pysher family,” the GoFundMe added.
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