( CNN ) -- A Mormon bishop was shot and killed in Visalia , California , on Sunday , police said . The suspected gunman was killed later in the day in a gunfight with police , Visalia California Police Chief Colleen Mestas told CNN . Bishop Clay Sannar , 42 , was shot dead in an office at Visalia 's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , Mestas said . About 20 minutes after the shooting , police got a call from the suspect , who told them where he was heading , Mestas said . Officers intercepted the suspect and a gunfight ensued , during which the suspect was killed . Church members tell police the gunman was a stranger who had n't been seen at the church before . `` I 've got a dozen investigators trying to sort this out right now , '' Mestas said . `` We 've got to get some answers for his [ Sannar ] family . '' Unlike in some religious traditions , Mormon bishops lead individual churches , not regions or groups of churches .
The bishop is killed in a California church shooting . The suspect is killed in a gunfight with police . Unlike in some religious traditions , the bishops lead individual churches .