UPDATE
Feb 21, 2023 12:55 AM CST
Police in Los Angeles have identified the suspect arrested in the murder of Bishop David O'Connell: It's 65-year-old Carlos Medina, husband of the bishop's housekeeper, reports the Los Angeles Times. A tipster reportedly told police that Medina had been behaving oddly after the killing and spoke of the bishop owing him money. He also drives a vehicle similar to one seen in surveillance video. Ballistics tests are pending on weapons found at his house. Medina's wife has not been implicated, and authorities say she is fully cooperating with the investigation, per USA Today.
Feb 20, 2023 12:54 PM CST
An arrest has been made in the Saturday shooting of a Catholic bishop in his Los Angeles County home, the Los Angeles Times reports. The county Sheriff's Department confirmed the arrest and said details would be provided later, per the AP. Bishop David O’Connell, of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, was found dead in his bed Saturday afternoon. Sources tell the LAT that there were no signs of forced entry at the Hacienda Heights home and the crime is not believed to be random. The Sheriff’s Department said Sunday that deputies responding to a medical emergency call found O'Connell, who had been shot in the upper torso, and the case was being investigated as a homicide, reports NBC Los Angeles.
O'Connell, 69, was a priest for 45 years and was known as a "peacemaker" for his many years of work in gang intervention, the AP reports. His death shocked religious communities in Los Angeles and beyond. In Ireland, where O'Connell was born, Bishop Fintan Gavin of the Diocese of Cork and Ross said O'Connell "has always maintained his connection with family and friends in Cork." In Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez praised "Bishop Dave" as "a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant." He "had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected," Gomez said. (More archdiocese of Los Angeles stories.)
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