‘King of the Hill' voice actor Jonathan Joss is fatally shot in Texas
Jonathan Joss, the actor who played John Redcorn on the animated TV show 'King of the Hill' and Chief Ken Hotate in the mockumentary series 'Parks and Recreation,' was shot and killed Sunday in San Antonio, his husband said in a statement.
Joss, 59, was visiting the site of his burned-down home to check the mail when he was shot, his spouse, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, said in a Facebook post, adding that they had received 'two years of threats' and homophobic harassment before that.
The San Antonio Police Department said Monday that there is so far 'no evidence' that the killing was related to Joss's sexual orientation, 'despite online claims of this being a hate crime.'
In January, Joss told local TV station KSAT that his childhood home had been vandalized, causing its power and gas to be cut, and that it caught fire while he was staying at a hotel to keep warm. The fire also killed the couple's three dogs, the Associated Press reported.
Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, 56, was arrested and charged with murder, according to the Associated Press.
The suspect was Joss's neighbor, according to local media, with CBS affiliate KENS 5 citing neighbors as saying that the two had been engaged in disputes.
The San Antonio Police Department and the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Over his decades-long career, Joss — who was of White Mountain Apache and Comanche descent — portrayed numerous Native American characters across film, TV and video games. He appeared in 'Ray Donovan,' 'Tulsa King' and 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and voice acted in video game hits 'Wasteland 3,' 'Cyberpunk 2077,' 'The Walking Dead: Michonne' and 'Red Dead Redemption.'
He was expected to appear in a Hulu reboot of 'King of the Hill,' the Emmy Award-winning series that ran for more than 13 seasons on Fox starting in 1997.
'We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future,' Kern de Gonzales wrote.
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