Newlyweds Jonathan Joss and Tristan Kern de Gonzales held each other in their final moment together Sunday.
Joss, 59, the voice actor best known as John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” had just been shot in the head in front of their San Antonio home.
“I didn’t want him to struggle and everything, so I decided to tell him I loved him. And despite the severity of everything, he was able to look up at me and acknowledge what I was saying, so I know he heard me,” said Kern de Gonzales, 32. “I just kept telling him: ‘It’s OK. You need to cross over. You don’t need to keep struggling. You need to go ahead and cross over easy.’”
Kern de Gonzales said Joss’ killer also had final words for the actor. He called him and his husband “jotos,” a Spanish slur for gay people.
“I’ve been called that word while I was sitting on a bench with Jonathan, eating lunch,” Kern de Gonzales said. “And I got called that holding Jonathan while he died.”
Shortly after, police arrested one of the pair’s neighbors, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, 56, in connection with Joss’ killing.
So it’s a fact he went on to Joss’ property to confront him, and then ended up shooting him in the head…? On his own property? And then calling him a slur after he shot him?
Regardless of history, if it happened on Joss’ property, it really doesn’t seem complicated. It seems like a pretty deliberate decision, and if he put the dog skull on their property it actually kinda seems pre-meditated. Like he was hoping for a confrontation.
I’ve had some awful neighbors in the past, and it sucks. Sometimes you just can’t get along with people. Even the worst of the worst neighbors I’ve had, I can’t imagine ever going on to someone else’s property to confront them, killing them, and then expecting anyone to believe I might have been in the right.
It’s one thing to defend your own home, but it’s not your job to confront your neighbor on private property with a lethal weapon, just bc they had previously been walking around the neighborhood with a pitchfork. Wtf?
Regarding whose property it was, it’s likely debatable. From Kern de Gonzalez’s post, it seems like they were living in a trailer park. Sometimes all the property outside the trailer itself technically belongs to the park management and is treated like a shared public area. There’s all sorts of weird little jurisdictional technicalities that happen in trailer parks from what I’ve been told.
I thought the trailer park is where they live currently because the house burned down. I think in Tristan’s post it was mentioned the the house was left to Joss by a grandparent.