A Catholic bishop was shot and killed in his Los Angeles home over the weekend, in an incident police are calling 'suspicious.'
Authorities said they responded to David O'Connell's home in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood at around 1pm Saturday afternoon, where he was found with a gunshot wound to his upper torso, and was pronounced dead at the scene. He was 69.
Deputies had received a call reporting that a person was not breathing at the address, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is now investigating his death as 'suspicious.'
It remains unclear whether a firearm was found at the scene, and authorities have not yet ruled O'Connell's death a homicide.
The auxiliary bishop's death was first announced by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which called O'Connell a 'peacemaker' and a man of 'deep prayer' who cared for everyone during his 45 years with the Church.
