Man arrested in Los Angeles-area Catholic bishop’s slaying had worked for the cleric

Bishop David O’Connell worked with immigrant children and families from Central America and in gang intervention with the Los Angeles Archdiocese. O’Connell was a native of Ireland and had been a priest for 45 years. (AP Photos)

LOS ANGELES — A man arrested Monday in the weekend killing of a Catholic bishop that shocked Los Angeles religious and immigrant communities is the husband of the victim’s housekeeper and had done work at his home, authorities said.

Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, 69, was fatally shot Saturday in the bedroom of his home in Hacienda Heights, an unincorporated community about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said.