An auxiliary bishop with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was shot to death Saturday afternoon, authorities confirmed.
The sheriff's department said detectives are investigating this as a suspicious death though no further details were released.An auxiliary bishop with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Hacienda Heights, authorities confirmed.A Southern California auxiliary bishop was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, authorities confirmed.
Investigators said O'Connell, who was a priest and later a bishop in L.A. for 45 years, was found in a room with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. He was also a good friend, and I will miss him greatly. I know we all will. Please join me in praying for Bishop Dave and for his family in Ireland. May Our Lady of Guadalupe wrap him in the mantle of her love, and may the angels lead him into paradise, and may he rest in peace.""It broke me and I was scared to tell my wife because my wife loved him so much," said parishioner Johnny Flores."He was not the type that would have confrontations with nobody," she said.
He studied for the priesthood at All Hallows College in Dublin and was ordained to serve in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1979. After ordination, he served as associate pastor in several parishes and as pastor at several parishes in L.A.
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