Authorities launch murder investigation after long-serving Catholic bishop fatally shot at Southern California home.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators said theycall at 12:57 p.m. Sunday and deputies responded to a home in the unincorporated neighborhood of Hacienda Heights. There, they found the 69-year-old O'Connell unresponsive and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the upper torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.No arrests have been announced.
Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell, of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, attends a news conference at the Fall General Assembly meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on Nov. 17, 2021, in Baltimore."He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected," Gomez said.
Upon hearing of O'Connell's death, parishioners went to the crime scene and said prayers in front of the home. "It broke me and I was scared to tell my wife because my wife loved him so much," parishioner Johnny Flores told
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