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Police probe whether 'King of the Hill' actor's sexual orientation played a role in his killing


Jonathan Joss’ husband has claimed the person who killed the actor yelled “violent homophobic slurs.”

HOUSTON — Investigators are looking into whether the sexual orientation of “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss played a role in his shooting death in Texas, authorities said Thursday, walking back a previous statement about the potential motive. “His voice will be missed at King of the Hill, and we extend our deepest condolences to Jonathan’s friends and family,” the show’s creators and producers — Mike Judge, Greg Daniels and Saladin Patterson — said in a statement on the animated series’ Instagram page. In *** post on Jos's Facebook page, his husband Tristan Curn de Gonzalez wrote that the couple had regularly faced openly homophobic harassment and said on Sunday they went to check the mail at their former home, which burned down in January, killing 3 of their dogs.

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