LOS ANGELES — The shooting death of Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell — known as a “peacemaker” — is being investigated as a homicide, sheriff’s officials said Sunday.
“This incident is being handled as a murder investigation,” the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department said in a brief statement. “There is no additional information available at this time.”
Sheriff’s deputies responding to a medical emergency call found the body of O’Connell, 69, who served as a priest and bishop in L.A. County for nearly half a century, at a home in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue in Hacienda Heights around 1 p.m. on Saturday, authorities said.
