DAILY BEAST
A Catholic bishop who spent more than four decades serving Los Angeles’ inner city has been shot dead at the age of 69, authorities confirmed Saturday.
David O’Connell, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, was found with at least one gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene in Hacienda Heights on Saturday afternoon around 1 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
A call had alerted police to the scene of the incident, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
According to the sheriff’s department, who described the circumstances of his death as “suspicious,” the bishop seems to have been shot in the upper torso. “I learned he was found deceased in the room, bleeding,” a spokesperson for the sheriff’s said in a statement.
A native of Ireland, O’Connell spent years ministering to residents in South L.A., which he described as a “great privilege” upon being named bishop in 2015.
After news of his death broke, dozens gathered outside his home, offering prayers and lighting candles in honor of the deceased bishop…
