Report: California bishop found dead of gunshot wound

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Roman Catholic bishop in Southern California was discovered useless Saturday of a gunshot wound, based on the Los Angeles Occasions.

The newspaper reported that Bishop David O’Connell was present in Hacienda Heights round 1 p.m.

In accordance with info from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division, murder detectives responded to “a capturing loss of life investigation.” A male grownup sufferer was situated and pronounced useless 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 loss of life, 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 mentioned in a press release, calling him “ good friend.”

“Bishop Dave was a person of deep prayer who had a fantastic love for Our Blessed Mom,” he mentioned. “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.

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