LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Southern California was discovered lifeless Saturday of a gunshot wound, in response to the Los Angeles Instances.
The newspaper reported that Bishop David O’Connell was present in Hacienda Heights round 1 p.m.
In keeping with data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, murder detectives responded to “a taking pictures demise investigation.” A male grownup sufferer was positioned and pronounced lifeless on the scene.
The block in query is a residential avenue lined with one-story ranch-style properties.
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez confirmed the demise, saying O’Connell, who served within the metropolis for 45 years as a priest and later a bishop, “handed away unexpectedly.”
“It’s a shock and I’ve no phrases to specific my disappointment,” Gomez stated in an announcement, calling him “a great good friend.”
“Bishop Dave was a person of deep prayer who had an ideal love for Our Blessed Mom,” he stated. “He was a peacemaker with a coronary heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a ardour for constructing a neighborhood the place the sanctity and dignity of each human life was honored and guarded.”
Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated neighborhood about 20 miles (30 kilometers) east of downtown Los Angeles.