The family of a devoted college baseball player who was allegedly shot dead by police officers has spoken out about the tragedy.
Glenwood 'Bubba' Pysher, 22, was out celebrating a friend's birthday at a bar in Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania on Saturday night before the group decided to move the festivities to the friend's house, his mother, Erin, told CBS News.
As Pysher drunkenly walked to his friend's home, he ended up at the wrong location. The couple that lived inside the home on Snyder Road then called police to report a possible break-in.
When police arrived at the property they found Pysher at the rear of the property, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said. The responding officers then discharged their weapons, fatally striking him twice, Erin said.
It remains unclear what prompted officers to draw their weapons, but Erin suggested they acted rashly and said she believes her son got confused because the house is in a wooded area.
'He probably was knocking, "Hey, let me in, where are you at, what are you doing?" And the homeowners thought he was trying to break into the house and called the cops,' Erin told the outlet.
'At 12.32, we have the call log, he was talking on the phone with his friends. By 12.35, I believe, the cops had already shown up and shot him,' she added. 'No Taser. No nothing. Automatic deadly force.'
She then went on to claim that her son was unarmed and was only carrying his cellphone and a book bag at the time.
Glenwood 'Bubba' Pysher, 22, was fatally shot by police officers in Upper Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania early Sunday morning
The family said they have not heard from the police department since the deadly shooting.
Pysher's father, Glenwood, is calling for action, saying: 'I just want things to be done right. I want to know the facts.'
Remembering her beloved son, Erin said baseball was one of his greatest passions, and he was ecstatic to play at Saint Elizabeth University in Florham Park, New Jersey, after recently transferring there.
'I was going to take him to school and help him set up his dorm room. He was supposed to start classes on Monday,' his mother told the outlet.
'It's unreal. I don't even know how to explain it. It's a feeling of so much sadness in my heart. I can't - it's hard to breathe.'
'He was such a good kid,' Glenwood said. 'The community here loved him, and nobody can believe this happened to this young man who wouldn't hurt a fly.'
The shooting was caught on surveillance cameras set up in the backyard of the property, with the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office now combing through the video as part of an investigation into the officer-involved shooting.
But some in the community are already pressing for answers.
Pysher was gunned down outside after mistakenly thinking he was at his friend's house
Pysher was been getting ready to play at Saint Elizabeth University in New Jersey, to where he had recently transferred when he was killed
Pysher was remembered as a dedicated baseball catcher who worked at a Walmart
'What happened? Could it have been de-escalated?' family friend Kia asked, rhetorically. 'We don't know, but we want to figure that out.'
Wendy Hasara, another family friend, also called for 'justice' to be served and for Pysher's death to 'prevent this from ever happening to another person' in a post on Facebook.
She recounted how Pysher worked at the local Walmart in his free time.
'He often worked right up to [the] time he needed to leave for a game... worked then drove his non-AC car to even away games in the heat and then put on that hot catcher's gear and played his heart out,' Hasara wrote, calling Pysher a 'life with a bright future, stolen too soon.'
