The “King of the Hill” voice actor was shot and killed in San Antonio on Sunday.
Candles, flowers, and notes are placed at a makeshift memorial in San Antonio, on Thursday, June 5, 2025, for voice actor Jonathan Joss, who was recently killed.Joss’ husband has said the person who killed the actor yelled “violent homophobic slurs” before opening fire outside his home in San Antonio on Sunday night.
A day after the shooting, San Antonio police issuedBut during a news conference on Thursday, San Antonio police Chief William McManus said the statement was “premature” and that whether Joss’ sexual orientation played a role in the shooting “is part of the investigation.” “I will own that and simply say again that we simply shouldn’t have done that. It was way too early in the process for any statement of that nature to be issued,” McManus said.The police chief said many in the LGBTQ community “are feeling anxious and concerned” after Joss’ shooting and that “a lot of it has to do with that premature statement.”Texas does not have separate hate crimes charges. But if homophobia is found to have been a motive in the shooting, that could result in a harsher sentence at trial under the state’s hate crimes law. “We gather the facts, and we give those facts to the district attorney’s office. And then that hate crime designation is determined at sentencing,” McManus said. The actor’s home burned down in January. Joss’ husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, has said they were checking mail there Sunday when a man approached them, pulled out a gun and opened fire.Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, who is a neighbor of Joss, is charged with murder in the shooting. Ceja Alvarez has been released on a $200,000 bond. Ceja Alvarez’s attorney, Alfonso Otero, did not immediately return an email seeking comment Thursday. McManus said police had been called to Joss’ home and his neighborhood about 70 times over the past two years related to “neighborhood-type disturbances.”“Sometimes was the caller. Other times, the neighbors were calling on him,” McManus said. The San Antonio Police Department’s mental health unit as well as a unit known as SAFFE that works with residents to help prevent crime “had extensive engagements with Mr. Joss, making repeated efforts to mediate conflicts and connect him with services that he may have needed,” McManus said.Advertisement“His voice will be missed at King of the Hill, and we extend our deepest condolences to Jonathan’s friends and family,” the show’s creators and producers — Mike Judge, Greg Daniels and Saladin Patterson — said in a statement on the animated series’ Instagram page.
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