A male suspect was taken into custody mid-morning Feb. 20 in connection with the killing of a beloved Catholic leader—Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell—who was fatally shot in his home, in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hacienda Heights, Feb. 18.
Further details on the suspect will be announced this afternoon at 3 p.m. during a Los Angeles Sherrif’s Department press conference.
The sheriff’s department confirmed an arrest, believed related to the case and reported by various news outlets, in a Twitter post of an “armed, barricaded” suspect in Torrance after a lengthy standoff on Kenwood Avenue.
Authorities took the suspect into custody shortly after 9 a.m….