NORRISTOWN, Pa. — An Upper Pottsgrove police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 23 fatal shooting of a 22-year-old college student who had ended up at the wrong house late at night, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said Tuesday.

Cpl. Sean Farrell, 58, faces a voluntary manslaughter charge in the death of Glenwood Earl Pysher IV. Steele said the officer had less-than-lethal options and did not need to resort to shooting Pysher during the encounter.

The Montgomery County Detective Bureau investigated the shooting and reviewed footage from Farrell’s body-worn camera, the district attorney’s office said in a news release.

“The investigation found that Cpl. Farrell had less-than-lethal options on his utility belt that he did not employ, including a taser,” the release said.

Investigators also determined that at the time of the shooting, Farrell 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, according to the release.

“Mr. Pysher was not a threat. This is not a legal use of deadly force, leading to the charge of Voluntary Manslaughter,” Steele said.

Pysher had been waiting for friends to pick him up from the wrong house when Farrell encountered him, prosecutors said.