Just two days after actor Jonathan Joss was fatally shot on Sunday, June 1, the San Antonio Police Department issued a statement noting that they’d found “no evidence whatsoever” to indicate that his murder was a hate crime . Now, SAPD Police Chief William McManus is walking back that update.

“That was way, way, way premature,” McManus admitted during a Thursday, June 5, press conference . “Shouldn’t have done it. It was way too soon before we had any real information, and I will own that and simply say, again, that we simply shouldn’t have done that. It was way too early in the process for any statement of that nature to be issued.”

McManus went on to say that the SAPD understands that “many in the LGBTQ+ community are feeling anxious and concerned” about Joss’ murder.

Joss, who

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