LOS ANGELES — A person of interest has been detained for questioning in the fatal shooting in Los Angeles of a long-serving Catholic bishop known as a 'peacemaker,' officials said Monday.
ExpandKevin Shalvey, Alex Stone and Bill Hutchinson, ABC NewsLOS ANGELES — A person of interest has been detained for questioning in the fatal shooting in Los Angeles of a long-serving Catholic bishop known as a"peacemaker," officials said Monday.
"He was a peacemaker with a heart for the poor and the immigrant, and he had a passion for building a community where the sanctity and dignity of every human life was honored and protected," Gomez said. "It broke me and I was scared to tell my wife because my wife loved him so much," parishioner Johnny Flores told ABC Los Angeles station KABC."He was not the type that would have confrontations with nobody," Perez told KABC."He was very loving, and he had like a gift of healing. When you would attend his ceremonies, it was like a gift of healing."
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