King of Hill actor, Jonathan Joss, murdered in homophobic attack.

[brnbk]

The shocking circumstances surrounding the  murder of Out and Proud native American actor Jonathan Joss makes one wonder if native Americans are still considered "fair game" for shooting by the cowboys of the Americas?

The events surrounding this shocking crime just makes one's heart and head boil with anger. A proud Out gay actor and husband had been repeatedly threatened and taunted by their neighbors and made to flee his parental house. The house has been built by his father for his mother and Joss wanted to continue the legacy of love for his partner. He did not realize the high price he would have to pay for it, last Sunday when he was there to collect mail along with his husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales. Tristan told the media that he and his husband had repeatedly been harassed with anti gay slurs and hostility, and made to feel unwelcome in the neighborhood. Their house has been burnt down, along with his three dogs⁴, in an arson attack that is still being investigated¹, and they had to make numerous calls to the police over harassment by their neighbors but the police refused to do much about it. Last Sunday when they where there according to Tristan's statement on FB: 

"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 "²

Tristan also told the Independent 

""While I'm holding him, he has the gun pointed over me, and he's laughing, saying, 'Oh, you love him? Joto,'" Kern de Gonzales alleged. "'Joto' is Spanish for f****t. I never knew the word until I came to Texas, and then I heard it a lot."³

The San Antonio police after absolving the killer, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, of any hate-crime motivations has retracted their statement saying their initial pronouncement was "premature".⁵

 

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¹ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jonathan-joss-homophobia-shooting-1.7554172

² [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15mj3bAgm6/

³ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jonathan-joss-shooting-suspect-sigfredo-ceja-alvarez-bail-b2763843.html

⁴ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jonathan-joss-shooting-police-report-suspect-b2763045.html

⁵ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://globalnews.ca/news/11216725/jonathan-joss-killing-hate-crime-police-statement/

 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by brnbk