‘King of the Hill’ actor Jonathan Joss was raging with pitchfork before he was shot dead, neighbors say — as alleged killer is released on bail

“King of the Hill” actor Jonathan Joss was raging through his neighborhood with a pitchfork when a neighbor he’d been feuding with for years shot him dead, residents said — as the suspect

killer was allowed to walk free after posting bond.

Joss, 59, was storming up and down his San Antonio street Sunday evening and screaming expletives with a pitchfork in hand when Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez – who lives just 50 yards from Joss’

property – allegedly confronted him with a loaded rifle, neighbors told KGW 8.

The two started arguing in Joss’ driveway, and before long shots rang out and the actor lay dying on the pavement. Alvarez allegedly told police “I shot him” after being arrested in the

killing. He posted $200,000 bond and was released on house arrest the next night.

Joss’ husband said that the killing was the result of years of homophobia, and that Ceja laughed and sneered homosexual slurs over Joss’ dying body after their deadly argument, according to

the Independent.

Cops have said there is no evidence that Joss’ sexuality played a role in the killing.

But neighbors say the shooting was just the culmination of “years” of increasingly violent confrontations between the two men, which included both menacing each other with weapons and

discharging guns to intimidate.

“I’ve been here six years and when we moved in, it was already going on, so it’s just been years of feud with these two,” a neighbor named Gina told KGW 8. “Weapons, everything, gun

shootings at all times, hours of the night.”

“Just shooting rounds at their own property and stuff. You could just hear the multiple rounds just blowing off on both ends, both ends and he would be yelling a lot,” Gina said, explaining

that the men never fired at each other, but that rounds sometimes hit other homes.

Other neighbors said the sight of Joss stalking about the neighborhood with weapons like a crossbow in his hands while screaming was a common sight.

Problems between Joss and Alvarez were so well known and reported that San Antonio Fear Free Environment – a police division tasked with localized neighborhood crime prevention – had been

assigned to mediate the feud for over a year, according to San Antonio Police.

In total, police responded to the street over incidents involving Joss at least 40 times since January 2024.

“I’m not taking nobody’s side because I do have reports on both of them, but nothing got done.” Gina said. “This man should be alive today, but nothing got done.”

Joss’s husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, claims Alvarez and other neighbors harassed them for years because of their sexuality – and that the alleged killer laughed and sneered homosexual

slurs over Joss’ dying body after their deadly argument.

Gonzales says he and Joss had gone to their property Sunday to collect a fire-victim’s check from extensive damage the home suffered in February, but found the bones of a beloved pet dog

that died in the blaze displayed out front.

“This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw,” Gonzales wrote in a Facebook post Monday. “While we were doing this a

man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.”

San Antonio police, however, said they’ve found “no evidence” so far that homophobia factored into the killing.

Gonzales also claimed the fire that destroyed their home was set by bigoted neighbors – but residents of the street told TMZ that Joss set it himself while trying to heat his home with a

barbeque grill when the city shut off his services over uninhabitable conditions.

The actor, who voiced John Redcorn on the cartoon comedy, had fallen on hard times recently, and was struggling to earn money after losing his longtime home.