Updated February 19, 2023 12:54AM
LA bishop shot and killed in Hacienda Heights
Auxiliary Bishop Dave O'Connell was found shout to death at a home in Hacienda Heights. Deputies are calling his death "suspicious."
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A man killed in a shooting in Hacienda Heights Saturday has been identified as an Auxiliary Bishop with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Bishop David O'Connell was killed in the shooting that happened just before 1 p.m. in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, O'Connell was shot in the upper torso, and pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies said O'Connell's death was "suspicious," but stopped short of calling it a homicide.
"It is a shock and I have no words to express my sadness," Archbishop José Gomez said in a statement.
According to Gomez, O'Connell had spent 45 years serving the Archdiocese, first as a priest and then a bishop. Gomez called him "a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected."
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