Posted on 02/19/2023 12:32:33 PM PST by bitt
Los Angeles Catholic Biship David O’Connell was shot and killed on Saturday.
Police responded to his home at the Hacienda Heights at 1 PM on Saturday and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Angeles News reported:
Archbishop José H. Gomez gave the update to parishioners gathered for Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Feb. 19, one day after the Irish-born bishop was found dead at his residence in Hacienda Heights. A statement was also released to news media Sunday morning.
“We continue to pray for Bishop Dave, and for his family in Ireland, and we pray for law enforcement officials as they continue their investigation into this terrible crime,” he added.
ABC News reported:
A long-serving Catholic bishop known as a “peacemaker” was shot and killed in Los Angeles on Saturday, officials said.
Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who had been a priest and then a bishop during his 45 years with the church, died “unexpectedly,” José H. Gomez, the archbishop of Los Angeles, said in a statement.
He’d been known as a “man of deep prayer,” Gomez said.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it responded at about 1 p.m. to the Hacienda Heights neighborhood, where an adult male was pronounced dead at the scene. Los Angeles ABC station KABC confirmed with police that O’Connell had been shot and killed.
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I wish I could jump to conclusions and assume he’s an innocent victim.
A “Bishop” shot dead.
I can think of a number of reasons why this would happen.
Sadly, so can I.
“Named a bishop by Pope Francis in 2015, Bishop O’Connell, 69, was born in Ireland and ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1979. He served at several parishes in South Los Angeles. At a news conference in 2015, Archbishop Gomez lauded Bishop O’Connell’s commitment to Catholics in Los Angeles, calling him “a leader on issues like immigration reform, education, unemployment, housing, violence and finding alternatives for young people in gangs.” - Excerpt from www.americamagazine.org
Being one of Pope Francis’ men opens all kinds of suspicions.
Do gooder.
Well said!
Whereas I have no trouble jumping to that conclusion.
It's Los Angeles. Home invasions happen.
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