King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss has died aged 59 after a shooting in Texas, police have confirmed.
Joss was the voice of John Redcorn for seasons two through 13 of the popular animated series. He had reportedly recorded bits for the show’s reboot, which recently began production for Hulu and is slated to premiere in August.
The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor, according to TMZ. San Antonio police responded to a home after reports of shots fired and found Joss near the road with gunshot wounds, according to Variety.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
That’s a weird spelling of “hate-crime”.
It’s not a hate crime if he’s just beefing with his neighbor.
If his neighbor shot him just for being native and no other reason then it would be a hate crime.
Having said that his neighbor really hated him.
Did you even read the story?
The problem is reading this single story and doing zero follow-up.
Joss had the cops called on him multiple times, had previously said he was the one who burned down his house and killed his dogs, and was known for standing on his lawn with a crossbow while yelling at people.
Calling this a hate crime is an extremely hasty conclusion, and I say that as a gay man. I have no idea what the hell happened but Joss was not okay, was changing his story regularly, and was acting openly hostile to the point that city services had to get involved with both of them to try and stop the argument. The dude who shot him is a piece of shit, 100%, but I’m not going to sit here and say that it’s a one-sided hate-crime when the information from Joss’ side is wildly inconsistent.
I simply do not know yet and neither do you.
Source 1 - About him burning down his house
Source 2 - About him acting very erratic and violent
If the house did not have power, do you think the neighbors would notice that their house was never lit up at night?
If you think they noticed, how difficult would it be for someone to go in, turn on the propane and leave?
He didn’t say he was the one who did it. He said it basically doesn’t matter because his dogs were dead, and that’s really what he cared about.
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Whole lot of ifs. Whole lot of assumptions. Whole lot of weird arguments to be made when Occams Razor exists. That Jonathan Joss was acting erratically for whatever reason, pissed off someone else who had their own fucked up struggles going on and it kept echoing between the two until one cracked and killed the other.
You are calling people out about assumptions, and saying Joss was “acting erratically” and I would like to point out that you don’t know that his “erratic” behaviour wasn’t in response to anything, nor who may have incited him to act that way.
Just because he didn’t point the finger at someone for one crime or another, doesn’t mean he did it either. He may have been covering for someone to either save face or avoid escalation.
I’m not saying I know either, and that’s my point. You see some reports and news stories and you’ve drawn conclusions and made assumptions based on that without really knowing if any of the assumptions you made are correct.
The only person who really knew is dead now, at the hands of someone who clearly had issues getting along with him.
This argument is stupid. They might not know but neither do you.
You’ve outright invented an origin story while I’m taking actual reports and putting them together to make them make sense.
They’re not the same thing.
But pop off.
He was openly gay. His home had been burned down. His pet had been killed and put on display. Pretty easy to hop over to hate crime with that info.
They did that to him?!