Five minutes. That’s how much time passed between Todd Leonard’s last meeting with Father Arul Carasala and the moment Leonard found the priest fatally wounded outside his own rectory in Seneca on April 3, 2025. A former principal of the parish school for 24 years, Leonard regularly met with Father Carasala, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish. As he walked back to the school that day, he thought he heard three gunshots. Uncertain, he returned …
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