‘King of the Hill’ actor Jonathan Joss’ husband says star’s killing was homophobic hate crime after ‘years’ of harassment

The husband of “King of the Hill” star actor Jonathan Joss alleged that the voice actor was murdered by a homophobic neighbor after enduring “years” of violent threats on their street.

Tristan Kern de Gonzales said in a Monday Facebook post that he and Joss had stopped by the site of their Texas home – which burned down in February – to pick up their mail on Sunday when they found the bones of their dead pet dog displayed on the property.

“This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw,” Gonzales wrote in the post. “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.”

Joss was struck in the gunfire and killed, Gonzales said, and died by his side.

A suspect and neighbor who lives doors down from the couple, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, was arrested shortly after the shooting.

Gonzales claimed the killing was just the culmination of a long saga of frightening homophobia the couple had endured on their street, claiming neighbors had spent years threatening to burn their home down – but that cops never intervened.

“He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other,” Gonzales said.

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