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.
I really despise the usage of ‘Argument’ here in the title. It does not do the situation justice. As far as i’m aware this wasn’t an Argument. it was entirely one sided. The perpetrator just walked up and started being homophobic before shooting him. It was a murder and to call it anything less is just being dishonest.
As far as you’re aware because that’s all this article has talked about. This entire situation is so weird.
As a gay man, I genuinely don’t know if this is homophobia or not because the situation surrounding it is just so completely bizarre and inconsistent, all from the victims themselves. It’s vaguely reminding me of the Jussie Smollet situation. Why?
In a statement written by Joss’ husband after the attack, he says “That home was burned down after two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire.” This seems to imply that the house was burned down by arson yet in an article after the fire, Joss said that they hadn’t had electricity or heating in the house and they had been using a propane heater to keep warm and that he thinks he left it on. So whether the attack was arson is completely up in the air because there are no articles I can find in the interim stating what the cause was.
Joss repeatedly had the cops called on him for acting erratically and outright violent. According to his neighbor (from that link):
According to someone else from this article
I am not so hasty to call this homophobia when it seems like Jonathan Joss was not well and that the information about even the burning of the house is inconsistent.
You have never been long term abused by someone with privilege, and even the scenario youre trying to suggest has jothing in common with the smollet case.
You’re literally citing police reports as if rhey tend to correlate with reality.
Comes off as extremely homophobic. Maybe to blame the victim, so you can feel safe until its your turn. Either way, as someone whose turn is almost certainly before yours: fuck you very much, ill try to scratch something funny on the crematorium wall.
I’m the victim of abuse by my mother, spent half of my 20s homeless and had a gun pointed in my face by cops more than once.
You are throwing a temper tantrum, lying about what I’m citing (news reports are not police reports. Neighbor reports are not police reports.) and accusing me, a gay man, of being homophobic and insinuate that I’m somehow victim blaming to merely point say “I’m going to wait for all the information before immediately jumping to conclusions.”
You should probably grow up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No thanks.
So why mention smollett, then?
Then you don’t get to play at the adult table.
You don’t get answers to your questions, either.
Goodbye.
Oh damn, im so owned. You owned me so bad.
From what I can tell, this region is notorious for gangstalking, especially against gay men. Many of these reports could likely be falsified to justify the idea of killing him.
I don’t see any inconsistency about the fire if the article itself says that the cause is under investigation. Joss believed it’s possible he made a mistake, but it seems more likely to be caused by the same people that threatened arson, and possibly the same people that murdered him.
I’m deeply saddened that your comment has even a single upvote considering your comment has nothing backing it up and is purely vibes based. It’s so fucking depressing seeing this get a single ounce of creedence.
So from what you can tell from… what sources, exactly? Because there are a slew of sources all claiming that Joss was acting erratically and frankly outright insane. But I guess we can ignore all of those because ‘from what you could tell’, with sources you refuse to cite, it’s just typical for the region.
Jesus fucking christ. This shit is what is wrong with the world. Y’all are more willing to believe shit you’ve made up in your own head because you believe yourself to be an expert, so much so that you’ll ignore every source saying he was acting insane.
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This flat out wasn’t a hate crime.
Thank you for this write up. I had been trying to put this into words for the past couple of days myself.
Additionally, Jonathan had shown up at a king of the hill panel he wasn’t part of and tried to speak, then was setting up a shoe shine booth outside of the venue? While in Austin he also did a podcast in which he was clearly inebriated and then was asking for rides home on Facebook.
While none of this excuses someone murdering him in any way, all of these things together definitely give me pause and lead me to not necessarily taking the husbands post at face value. I have addicts in my family and it just seems too familiar.
This was after someone set his house on fire, which killed his 3 dogs. And then someone took one of the skulls and a leash and set it up where they’d be seen. So when Joss and his husband came back and were mourning, THEN his neighbor came out and started shouting slurs at them while waiving a fun around.
But no this was an argument between two equally at fault rational people. Definitely not a homophobic hate crime on the first day of pride month.
He has given completely conflicting answers on this. In one interview he says he was lighting a propane heater for his dogs and may have left it on which led to the house burning down. In another interview he says that he was lighting a fire for warmth. In another interview he said he was using a propane grill to make hot chocolate. So whether or not someone set his house on fire is up in the air, especially when he’s making the claim but the police haven’t said anything about that front at all. He also openly said he likely burned his house down and then said later that someone else did. But, again, police never said anything about that and Joss was showing insanely paranoid tendencies with charging around his lawn with a crossbow and yelling at cars in the street.
Way to leave out a significant event. They came back and “believed the dogs skull was theirs” (which completely conflicts from Joss himself saying that they found all three dogs). Joss then got out a pitchfork and started marching up and down the street, yelling at the top of his lungs. Thats from the husbands own words. Then he got shot.
Like I’ve said elsewhere. This could have all started as a hate crime but there was a lot of weird shit going on in this situation. Blatantly calling this a hate crime from the start without waiting for more answers is jumping to the ending of a narrative you’ve already made. It might be the correct one, dunno. But pretending like you know the answers doesn’t help anyone.