re: King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss (John Redcorn) killed by neighbor

His husband’s side of the story presented without comment:

“My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done.

Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.

When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.

While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.

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.

Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.

I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.

To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.

If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband.

Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built.”

- Tristan Kern de Gonzales

If that story is true...wow.

Severely fricked up

he was gay?

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he was gay?

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No, but his husband was

That was the exact movie he was in town filming when I met him
We both partied with him, small world!

I obviously don't know anything for a fact but my sense is he had major bad blood with this neighbor and I'm sure the neighbor hurled anti gay language his way regularly during their fights, but him being gay was probably incidental.

I highly doubt he killed him solely because he was gay though and was more due to their ongoing beef.

Regardless, it doesn't matter. Murder is murder, if he's guilty he should be found such regardless of his ultimate motive.

I hate to hear that. Didn’t know he was the chief in parks and rec. The new king of the hill is one of the few I’m looking forward to being brought back. I hope they don’t ruin it.

Could be a factor but not the main reason for killing him. Dude definitely had some major demons given how the cast reacted to him randomly showing up at the panel as well some pretty negative fan interactions. Dude losing his house recently definitely didn't help his mental state. The shooter could already just been a homophobic a-hole but I'm guessing there were rising tensions between the two in part due to Joss' meltdowns recently.

Regardless it's a pretty tragic story

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Several confirmed neighbors have also talked about him.

There were rumors for years that he was VERY difficult to deal with. He was a nut apparently