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The man charged with murdering actor Jonathan Joss told police “I shot him,” in keeping with a police report detailing the incident.
Joss, 59, was fatally shot near his home on Sunday, according to police in San Antonio, Texas.
A witness, whose title is redacted within the report, told police she drove Joss to the location of his earlier residence to verify his mail. Joss had mentioned beforehand the house had been destroyed by fireplace.
The witness mentioned after arriving on the property, the suspect, Sigfredo Ceja, pulled in behind her earlier than getting out of his automobile and starting to argue with Joss.
The witness told police she heard Ceja inform Joss he had a gun and would shoot. The incident report describes the weapon as a rifle.
Ceja has been arrested on suspicion of murder. An investigation is ongoing.
NCS has tried to succeed in Ceja for remark.
San Antonio Police name for service logs present quite a few calls to each the addresses of Joss and Ceja, who was his neighbor, over the previous 12 months. Officers had been referred to as to Joss’s residence dozens of occasions, in some situations a number of occasions in a single day. Many of the calls are characterised as “Disturbance Neighbor.” Other calls seem like welfare checks to the house that property data present is owned by Joss.
Police had been dispatched Sunday to a location on Dorsey Drive for a reported capturing in progress, the place officers discovered Joss “near the roadway of the location” and “attempted life saving measures,” authorities mentioned.
The actor was pronounced useless by emergency service responders.
Joss’ husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales told the Associated Press they had been approached and threatened by a person with a gun whereas checking the mail at Joss’s residence, which in January was broken by a hearth that additionally killed their three canines.
“Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life,” de Gonzales mentioned.
He and Joss, who married in February, had beforehand confronted “openly homophobic” harassment, de Gonzales mentioned. The one that killed Joss yelled “violent homophobic slurs” earlier than opening fireplace, he added.
“He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other,” de Gonzales mentioned.
“Despite online claims of this being a hate crime, currently the investigation has found no evidence to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation,” San Antonio police mentioned in a statement posted to social media on Monday evening.
Joss was recognized for his efficiency in “Parks & Recreation” as a tribal elder of the Wamapoke Native American tribe and proprietor of the Wamapoke Casino.
His co-star Nick Offerman has spoken out about Joss’s loss of life.
“The cast has been texting together about it all day and we’re just heartbroken,” Offerman mentioned in an announcement to People. “Jonathan was such a sweet guy and we loved having him as our Chief Ken Hotate. A terrible tragedy.”
NCS has reached out to representatives for Offerman for extra remark.
Beyond his work on “Parks and Recreation,” Joss voiced the character of John Redcorn on “King of the Hill.” Some of his different credit embody appearances in “Ray Donovan,” “Tulsa King” and the 2016 movie “The Magnificent Seven.”