Newlyweds Jonathan Joss and Tristan Kern de Gonzales held each other in their final moment together Sunday.

Joss, 59, the voice actor best known as John Redcorn on “King of the Hill,” had just been shot in the head in front of their San Antonio home.

“I didn’t want him to struggle and everything, so I decided to tell him I loved him. And despite the severity of everything, he was able to look up at me and acknowledge what I was saying, so I know he heard me,” said Kern de Gonzales, 32. “I just kept telling him: ‘It’s OK. You need to cross over. You don’t need to keep struggling. You need to go ahead and cross over easy.’”

Kern de Gonzales said Joss’ killer also had final words for the actor. He called him and his husband “jotos,” a Spanish slur for gay people.

“I’ve been called that word while I was sitting on a bench with Jonathan, eating lunch,” Kern de Gonzales said. “And I got called that holding Jonathan while he died.”

Shortly after, police arrested one of the pair’s neighbors, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, 56, in connection with Joss’ killing.

  • @ScientifficDoggo@lemmy.zip
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    1415 hours ago

    Yes, the “If you hate Nazis/Racists/Murderers/etc , you’re just as bad as them” card. Leave that one back in highschool bud ☝🏽🤓.

    • thanks AV
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      614 hours ago

      The important thing is that we dont hurt the bigots feelings, otherwise they might lash out

    • @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Lol. Doing it again. No, that’s not what I said at all. But I guess if you’re jumping on the all Americans must die bandwagon too, knock yourself out.