Tributes have poured in for a popular Irish bishop who was shot in Los Angeles at the weekend.
There has been shock at the violent death of Cork native, Bishop David O’Connell, at a house in California on Saturday. The Irish-born Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was discovered with a gunshot wound in a suburb of the city.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said detectives responded to a shooting death shortly before 1pm on February 18 in the Hacienda Heights neighbourhood. The 69-year-old was pronounced dead at the property and police said they are treating his death as suspicious.
