King of the Hill voice actor Jonathon Joss has been killed by his neighbor...

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Jonathan Joss, known for his voice role as John Redcorn in the hit animated series King of the Hill, has died after being shot by a neighbor. He was 59 years old.


Per TMZ, San Antonio Police Dept. officers say Joss had gotten into a "heated argument" with a neighbor near his home in San Antonio, Texas. It's not clear at this time what the argument was about, but cops say the neighbor pulled out a gun and shot Joss "several" times before leaving the scene in a vehicle. Responding paramedics tried to save Joss, but he was pronounced dead.

The suspect has since been identified by police as Sigfredo Alvarez-Cega. He was apprehended about a block away from where the incident occurred, and cops officially charged him with murder. His bond has been set at $200K. Investigators are now working to uncover more information about the argument by speaking with witnesses.
 
Sad story.

I wonder what the dispute was about.
Joss was a gay man in a neighborhood that did not like gay men. His house had burned down, and he and his husband were picking up their mail at their former house. They had just found the dead body of his missing dog.

Joss also has been confrontational lately. There are new King of the Hill episodes being made, and his character had been written out of the show. There was a King of the Hill panel that he showed up to as an audience member, and screamed at the cast that they had burned down his house. They had not seen him in a decade and a half, and had no connection to burning down his house.

The police had been called over 70 times. Maybe he was confrontational because his neighbors were attacking him. Or maybe his neighbors were attacking him because he was being confrontational. The legal system might get to the bottom of this, or they might cover it up.
 
So you are just repeating racist tropes?
No, I'm repeating an observable fact.



 
I bet lots of alcohol was involved...
This was a long-standing feud. The shooter Alvarez-Cega, like most MAGAts, was vehemently anti-gay. Joss and his partner were gay.

Agreed alcohol was likely involved. Lots of MAGAts, besides being rapists, are also drunks.

But Joss' husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, alleged in a social media post that Joss was killed in a homophobic attack at the site of their old home.

While living there, Kern de Gonzales said, the couple was "harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship," adding that "much of the harassment was openly homophobic."

He said the couple was at the house, checking the mail, when they noticed the skull of their dog and the dog's harness placed out front, causing them to begin "yelling and crying."

A man approached them and yelled slurs at them, Kern de Gonzales said. The man then fired at the couple, he wrote.

"Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man, fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life," Kern de Gonzales said in the social media post.
 
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