Prominent LA Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell’s death ruled a murder: cops

Los Angeles authorities opened a murder probe Sunday into the death of Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell, who was found gunned down in his home Saturday afternoon.

Los Angeles Catholic auxiliary bishop found fatally shot; homicide investigation underway

The shooting death of a high-ranking Catholic Church bishop in Los Angeles is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Sunday.

Bishop’s shooting death in LA being investigated as “suspicious”

“He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected.”

LA’s ‘Peacemaker’ Bishop David O’Connell Found Fatally Shot In His Home; Death Ruled A Homicide

Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a native of Ireland who spent most of his four decades as a priest ministering in LA’s inner city, was shot and killed Feb. 18 in his Hacienda Heights home, a neighborhood east of Los Angeles. His death is being investigated as a homicide, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles early Feb. 19.

Detectives treating Los Angeles bishop’s death as homicide

A Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church, a slaying of a longtime priest hailed as a “peacemaker” that’s stunned the Los Angeles religious community, authorities said.

BREAKING: LA Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell Shot and Killed

Los Angeles Auxilary Bishop David O’Connell, a popular priest in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for many years known for his work ministering to immigrants, the poor, and victims of gun violence in South LA, was shot and killed Saturday, authorities said.

Catholic Bishop Shot Dead in Hacienda Heights

A beloved Los Angeles Catholic Bishop known as the “peacemaker” was found dead in his Hacienda Heights home on Saturday, shot in the torso in home by an unknown assailant.

Catholic bishop David O’Connell shot dead near Los Angeles

A Catholic bishop in southern California who was hailed as a “peacemaker” was shot and killed on Saturday blocks away from a church, stunning the Los Angeles religious community.

Well-known Irish bishop shot dead in America as tributes paid to ‘peacemaker’ and ‘great friend’

A well-known Irish-born bishop has been shot dead in America.

Tributes are being paid to Bishop David O’Connell, aged 69, following his shock death in Los Angeles on Saturday.

LA Bishop O’Connell died by ‘murder,’ sheriff says

The death of Los Angeles auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell has been ruled a homicide, according to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.