A college student fatally shot by police in Pennsylvania over the weekend had done nothing more than knock on the wrong door, according to his family, who now say they have been left with almost no information about how their son died.

Glenn Pysher was 22. To the people who knew him, he was Bubba.

A Short Walk That Went Wrong

Saturday night began ordinarily. Pysher was out with friends at a bar in Upper Pottsgrove, Montgomery County. When the group decided to continue the evening at a house nearby, he set off on foot alone.

He never reached the right address.

His mother, Erin Pysher, believes the wooded setting confused him. In her reconstruction of events, her son was knocking and calling out, asking to be let in and wondering where his friends were, assuming he had arrived at the correct house.

The people inside heard something else. They called 911 to report what they believed was an attempted break-in.

What Happened Next Remains Unclear

Officers arrived in the early hours of Sunday and located Pysher at the rear of the property.

The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office has said only that an encounter took place and that Pysher was shot and killed. The Upper Pottsgrove Police Department has released no details about the shooting itself, stating that the matter is under investigation. The Montgomery County Detective Bureau did not respond to a request for comment.

That silence is the source of much of the family’s anguish.

The Timeline the Family Is Pointing To

Erin Pysher says the call log tells a compressed and troubling story.

At 12:32, she says, her son was on the phone with his friends. By her account, officers had arrived and fired within roughly three minutes.

She emphasized what she believes was absent from that window. No Taser was used, she said, describing what happened as an immediate resort to deadly force.

The family says they have heard nothing directly from the police department since.

A Father’s Request

Glenwood Pysher, the young man’s father, framed his position simply. He wants the process handled properly, and he wants to know the facts.

That is a narrower ask than it might appear. The family is not demanding a predetermined conclusion. They are asking for basic information about a death that occurred on a residential property in the space of a few minutes, and which no one has yet explained to them.

Who He Was

Pysher played baseball, and it was central to his life. He had recently transferred to Saint Elizabeth University in Florham Park, New Jersey, where he was looking forward to joining the program.

Classes were scheduled to begin on Monday. His mother had planned to drive him there and help him arrange his dorm room.

She described the loss as difficult to articulate, saying the sadness has made it hard even to breathe.

His father said the community around them held him in genuine affection, and that no one can reconcile what happened with the young man they knew, someone he described as incapable of hurting anyone.

The Questions Ahead

Investigations into police shootings typically address several elements, and each is likely to matter here.

What officers were told when they were dispatched, and how a report of an attempted break-in shaped their expectations on arrival.

What Pysher was doing when officers encountered him at the back of the house, and whether anything about his behavior was interpreted as a threat.

Whether any warning was given, and whether less-lethal options were considered in the seconds available.

Whether body-worn camera footage exists, and if so, when it will be reviewed and released.

None of those answers have been provided publicly. Until they are, the account that exists in the public record is the one the family has assembled from a call log and their own understanding of the night.

For them, the gap between a missed address and a fatal shooting remains unexplained, and three minutes is not long enough to make sense of it.