Actor Jonathan Joss, who played Chief Ken Hotate on Parks and Recreation , was shot and killed by a neighbor in San Antonio on Sunday night, according to police. He was 59. The New York Times reports that the neighbor, whom investigators identified as Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, 56, has been taken into custody and charged with murder.
In a statement posted on Facebook, Joss’s husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, wrote that he and his husband had been subjected to homophobic harassment in the neighborhood for years. On Sunday, he said they had been checking the mail at the site of their old house, which he wrote “was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area.” Kern de Gonzales said that they were in “severe emotional distress” after seeing the skull of one of the