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Grand Jury Indicts Neighbor in Actor Jonathan Joss Killing

Published 19 November 2025

A Bexar County grand jury has indicted Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, a 57-year-old San Antonio resident, on one count of murder in the fatal shooting of actor Jonathan Joss Gonzales on June 1 outside the actor's burned-down home in the city's south side.

Joss, 59, known professionally as Jonathan Joss, was a prominent voice actor who portrayed John Redcorn on the animated series King of the Hill from 1997 to 2009 and Chief Ken Hotate on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation from 2011 to 2015. He had also appeared in films such as True Grit and The Magnificent Seven, as well as television shows including Tulsa King and Ray Donovan. At the time of the incident, Joss and his husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, were newlyweds who had been living in hotels after their home was destroyed by fire two years earlier, an event they attributed to threats from neighbors.

According to police reports, officers responded to a call of a shooting in progress around 7 p.m. and found Joss lying near a roadway with life-threatening injuries. Paramedics provided aid, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses described a heated argument between Joss and Ceja Alvarez, his neighbor, that escalated into...

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