King of the Hill actor’s husband claimed killing was due to his sexual orientation, which police initially dismissed
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 on Thursday, walking back a previous statement about the potential motive.
Joss’s husband has claimed the person who killed the actor yelled “violent homophobic slurs” before opening fire outside his home in San Antonio on Sunday night. A day after the shooting, San Antonio police issued a statement saying they had found “no evidence whatsoever to indicate that Mr Joss’ murder was related to his sexual orientation”.
But during a news conference on Thursday William McManus, the San Antonio police chief, said the statement was “premature” and that whether Joss’s sexual orientation played a role in the shooting “is part of the investigation”.
“I will own that and simply say again that we simply shouldn’t have done that. It was way too early in the process for any statement of that nature to be issued,” McManus said.
