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Crispy78 wrote: I saw he'd been killed in a shooting after an argument, hadn't heard that it was a homophobic hate-crime. Jesus. Poor guys.
Seeing different reports. Police are saying there is no evidence of a hate crime(yet). While its sad that he was killed,more facts are coming to light:
On January 23, 2025, Joss lost his San Antonio home, as well as three dogs (with a fourth missing) when his house caught fire.[8][9] Joss says he was using a propane heater and had left the house. “Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,” Joss said. “Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?”
Gonzales claimed the killing was just the culmination of a long saga of frightening homophobia the couple endured on their street, alleging neighbors had spent “years” threatening to burn their home down, but that cops never intervened.
Residents, however, painted a different picture, telling My San Antonio that Joss was an “erratic” neighbor, whose alarming antics caused them to regularly ignore him for their own safety.
“He would just walk up and down the street … he would just, like, scream,” said neighbor Isabel Caballero. “We knew how he was, so we wouldn’t disturb him. Even if he looked at us, talked mess to us, we just ignored him.”
Others said Joss “wasn’t a good neighbor” and would yell how “he was God” until neighbors called the police.
San Antonio cops were called to Joss’ home at least 40 times since January 2024, according to the outlet, with complaints ranging from mental health situations, neighbor disturbances and welfare checks.
Those calls culminated with the February fire, which neighbors told TMZ Joss set himself by trying to heat his home with a barbecue pit after its services were cut off because the house had been deemed uninhabitable.
“We all knew it was going to end up like this because of his antics,” a neighbor who asked to remain anonymous told My San Antonio.
“It’s sad cause this could have been prevented if he had gotten the help he needed.”
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Man, feth online bullies. So sad to hear of someone being literally bullied into killing themselves, and at such a young age. I had never heard of this person before now, but it's still sad to hear.
May God give grace and comfort to her family and friends in this difficult time. RIP
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~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: 
~5000 | Kruleboyz: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700