LAPD arrests man for the murder of Catholic bishop, 69, after he was shot dead in his home

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Catholic bishop who was found shot to death inside his Los Angeles home over the weekend.

Sheriff’s deputies responded to Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell’s Hacienda Heights home Saturday afternoon, where they found the clergyman with a gunshot wound to his upper torso. The 69-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.

The following day, deputies officially said they were investigating O’Connell’s death as a murder before announcing on Monday that they have made an arrest.

Authorities told NBC 4 Los Angeles the man was identified early on in the investigation through an ‘unnamed technical means,’ and was arrested without incident.

The suspect’s name has not yet been released.