Fixed your headline: Newlywed gay Native American actor Jonathan Joss murdered in homophobic hate crime at beginning of Pride month while mourning murdered dog in front of his home destroyed by arson.

Weak strawman argument. That's not how soul works.
Also, if consciousness was purely physical, it should be genetically inherited and a phenotype directly comparable to the parents. So every child's personality, intelligence, skills etc should closely match their parents, which they do not.