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The voice actor of “King of the Hill”, Jonathan Joss, was shot dead in what her husband claims to have been a crime of homophobic hatred.

On Monday, the authorities confirmed that Joss, 59, had died after an altercation on Sunday night with a former neighbor.

Subsequently, Joss’s husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, shared his incident story in a social media statement where he said that the couple was regularly the goal of homophobic harassment and threats while living in the neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas.

Gonzales and Joss had moved from the area after their home burned in January, but returned to the site to recover mail pieces. When they met the skull of a dog they lost in the fire, Gonzales said that both men “started screaming and crying in response to the pain of what we saw.”

It was at that time, a man “shouted violent homophobic insults” that “then raised a gun of his lap and shot,” Gonzales said.

“Jonathan and I had no weapons. We weren’t threatening anyone,” he wrote. “We were afflicted. We were next to each other. When the man shot Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.”

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“He was killed by someone who could not bear to see two men love each other,” Gonzales said in his statement, who thanked Joss’s friends and fans.

“Jonathan saved my life. I will take him forward,” the statement concluded. “I’ll protect what he built.”

Although they tried measures to save lives while waiting for doctors to arrive, then he was declared dead at the scene.

The alleged shooter, neighbor Sigfredo Álvarez Cejam, fled, but was arrested by officers one block from the crime scene. Cejam has been reserved for murder positions, and an investigation is still ongoing.

The sources that spoke with TMZ told him to the exit that Joss and Cejam had a history of entering “verbal and physical” altercations.

Joss was the stoic but sensitive voice “King of the Hill” John Redcorn from season 2 until season 13 of the animated classic, which transmitted its series end in 2009.

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According to the reports, he had already recorded lines for the highly anticipated revival of the program and appeared alongside the cast partners at the Austin Festival ATX Festival last week to promote the restart.

Joss’s other credits include a recurring role as Chief Ken Hotate in “Parks and Recreation”, as well as appearances in “Tulsa King”, “Ray Donovan”, “True Grit” and “The Magnificent Seven”.

During his life, Comanche actor and White Mountain Apache had pressed for the industry to stop using outdated stereotypes while representing the Native Americans.

In indigenous comic with 2017, he told actors that, although Hollywood seemed scared to write American native characters “in a modern scenario,” it is still worth taking “a position.”