The auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles (United States), David O’Connell, was shot to death on Saturday and the police consider that what happened was a homicide, the archdiocese of that city said on Sunday.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this news,” said the Archbishop of The AngelsJosé H. Gómez.
The city Police Department received an emergency call at around 1:00 p.m. local time on Saturday. When officers arrived they found O’Connell’s body with no signs of life and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was in a room in a house and had a gunshot wound to his torso that was still bleeding.
They determined it was a homicide.
At first his death was investigated as “suspicious”, but later it was determined that it was a homicide, according to the archbishopric.
“His legacy will live on,” the Los Angeles Police Department said on Twitter on Sunday.
O’Connell was born in Ireland in 1953 and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles by Pope Francis in 2015.
He had been stationed in that archdiocese since 1979 and was the president there of an interdiocesan task force charged with coordinating the church’s aid to children and families in Central America.
(With information from EFE)
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