Los Angeles deputies confirmed that the suspect wanted in Bishop David O’Connell shooting was found and arrested, report

Bishop David O’Connell was shot and killed, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday that they have caught a suspect in the case.

The sheriff’s office didn’t immediately name the suspect or give details about how they were caught. Monday evening, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna will hold a press conference where he will likely make the arrest official.

David O’Connell, 69, was found with a gunshot wound in his Hacienda Heights home on Saturday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. At the scene, he was said to be dead. On Sunday, detectives said that they were treating the death of O’Connell as a murder.

Angelus News, the archdiocese’s news source, says that O’Connell had been a priest for 45 years and was born in Ireland. In 2015, Pope Francis made him one of the auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is the largest in the country.

Angelus News said that O’Connell worked in South Los Angeles for many years and focused on stopping gangs. Later, after the violent uprising in 1992, which happened after a jury cleared four white LA police officers of beating a Black man named Rodney King, he tried to make peace between the people and the police.

Nearly 20 years later, O’Connell got the people of the San Gabriel Valley to work together to rebuild a mission that had been burned down. More recently, he has led Catholic efforts in the area to help Central American children and families.