Jonathan Joss, finest identified for voicing John Redcorn all through all 13 seasons of King of the Hillis being remembered by followers and colleagues as the man at the middle of a tragic capturing that has now led to his neighbor’s formal cost.
Joss, whose authorized identify was Jonathan Joss Gonzales, additionally appeared in Parks and Recreation as Chief Ken Hotate and in main movies, together with True Grit and The Magnificent Seven.
Months after his loss of life, the case surrounding the deadly capturing has taken a big step ahead. According to county information obtained by Rolling Stonea Bexar County grand jury has indicted 57-year-old Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez on one depend of homicide.
Alvarez was initially arrested in June on a first-degree homicide cost and later launched on a $200,000 bond.
The capturing occurred on June 1 close to Joss’ residence in San Antonio, the place he and his husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, had been staying following a home fireplace that displaced them.
According to Kern de Gonzales, the couple encountered their neighbor shortly earlier than the incident. In a social media assertion, he wrote that the man approached them, yelling homophobic slurs, earlier than opening fireplace. Kern de Gonzales stated Joss pushed him out of the line of fireplace, including, “He saved my life.”
Police paperwork state that Alvarez fled the space in a automobile however later admitted to the capturing after officers situated him. One of the first officers on the scene reported that Alvarez voluntarily acknowledged, “I shot him,” after being detained.
Kern de Gonzales additionally shared that the couple had skilled ongoing harassment in the neighborhood, claiming a lot of it stemmed from discrimination towards their relationship.
The San Antonio Police Department addressed these stories in a press release to Rolling Stone earlier this 12 months, noting that officers had responded to “more than 70 calls for service” at Joss’s deal with and that SAPD’s Mental Health Unit and SAFE officer remained in common contact with the couple and neighbors over the previous 12 months.
Alvarez denied any homophobic motives via his lawyer, who instructed KSAT in June that the capturing “had nothing to do with sexual orientation” and argued that his shopper acted in self-defense. A relative of Alvarez additionally disputed claims that the household had used slurs towards Joss.
Following Joss’ loss of life, King of the Hill co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, together with revival showrunner Saladin Patterson, honored the actor in a joint assertion.
“Jonathan brought King of the Hill’s ‘John Redcorn’ to life for over a dozen seasons, including in the upcoming revival,” they wrote. “His voice will be missed, and we extend our deepest condolences to his friends and family.”