Actor was also known for playing Chief Ken Hotate on ‘Parks and Recreation’

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.

  • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    As far as i’m aware this wasn’t an Argument. it was entirely one sided.

    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?

    1. 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.

    2. Joss repeatedly had the cops called on him for acting erratically and outright violent. According to his neighbor (from that link):

    “We passed by him, and we saw him. He was a little loud. I don’t know who he was talking to in the vehicle, but he was waving his hands.”

    The neighbor said, “The two of them had been repeatedly harassed because they were gay and their home was burned down after years of threats from neighbors.”

    Joss’ neighbor said she didn’t think anything of him being irate, because he had been acting erratically over the past several months.

    According to someone else from this article

    A video shared by a neighbor who was present shows a man, who they identified as Joss, pacing up and down the street with a pitchfork and screaming. The neighbors say it was common behavior over the years for Joss to scream while carrying weapons, and even though they say they didn’t like it, several neighbors said they were surprised when a man who lives just 50 yards away responded to the situation with a gun around 6 p.m. Sunday.

    […] Gina said the feud took many forms, “Weapons, everything, gun shootings at all times of the hours of the night,” Gina said, adding the men didn’t shoot at each other “No, just shooting rounds at their own property and stuff. You could just hear the multiple rounds just blowing off on both ends, both ends and he would be yelling a lot.” One neighbor said it was common to see Joss on his property with a crossbow while yelling about various complaints. […] The log of police visits is also extensive. In addition to the fire that destroyed the actor’s home in January 2025, there are calls for disturbances, threats, criminal mischief, mental health checks, shots fired, shots heard, a knife disturbance and more.

    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.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • Stamets@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        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)_/¯

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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.

      • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        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.

        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.

        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.

        One

        After another

        After another

        This flat out wasn’t a hate crime.

    • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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.