A Catholic bishop in Southern California was shot and killed Saturday just blocks from a church.
"It's very early in the investigation," said LASD Homicide Bureau Detective Michael Modica, according to CBS Los Angeles."We got a lot more steps we have to take to make more determination to what's happening." . Pope Francis had named him one of several auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — the largest in the country — in 2015.
O'Connell was found in Hacienda Heights around 1 p.m. Saturday with a gunshot wound. Sheriff's deputies were called to the area — just blocks from the St. John Vianney Catholic Church, which is part of O'Connell's archdiocese — on a report of a medical emergency. An investigator walks in front of the house where Bishop David O'Connell was murdered in Hacienda Heights.Masses at churches across the region were dedicated to O'Connell on Sunday. Neighbors and parishioners left flowers and candles and prayed the rosary next to police tape in Hacienda Heights. About 50 people prayed and sang in a vigil Sunday afternoon near part of the neighborhood surrounded by crime scene tape.
"I asked him if he would pray over my belly," she told The Associated Press as she and her family paid their respects at the crime scene.
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