San Antonio police have walked back on a previous statement that there was no evidence of a hate crime in the killing of actor Jonathan Joss, with the police chief now calling the statement “premature” and acknowledging the anxiety it has caused to the LGBTQ+ community.

Joss, who voiced John Redcorn on the animated TV show “King of the Hill” and played Chief Ken Hotate in the mockumentary series “Parks and Recreation,” was fatally shot Sunday in San Antonio.

Joss was shot by a man who yelled “violent homophobic slurs” at him while he was checking on his home, which had been burned down earlier this year, Joss’s husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, said in a statement Monday. Kern de Gonzales added that the couple had been “harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not ac

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