Arul Carasala, the India-born priest who was pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at Seneca in Nemaha County, was shot and killed April 3.

Father Arul Carasala, a longtime Kansas priest, was fatally shot Thursday in Seneca, Kansas. Carasala, a pastor in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and leader at Saints Peter and Paul Parish, was killed in what Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann called a “senseless act of violence.” Carasala had served the archdiocese for more than 20 years.

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