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.
Probably perpetrated by some dumb straight Christians.
But the reporting on this will focus more on the fact that the victim was ingenious and/or gay, than what’s going on with the shooter.
But we get headlines like “trans person sentenced to (insert punishment) for (insert random crime)” or something similar whenever anyone from the LGBTQ+ community acts out.
You’ll never see “straight man shoots a person because the shooter was a dick” or anything similar.
Fucking double standards.
This is something mentally ill people do. Racism alone doesn’t account for mounting their dead dogs heads, burning down their home and then killing them.
You can find stupid people in every part of the world. Allowing every idiot to have a firearm is only possible in a country that is run by gun dealers.
And then they say “GuNs DoN’t KilLPeOpLe”.
It’s true you can kill people without a gun, just as you can pound a nail into a wall without a hammer. But it’s a lot harder.
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 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?
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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.
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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.
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)_/¯
you should probably grow up
No thanks.
deftly avoiding the point
So why mention smollett, then?
No thanks
Then you don’t get to play at the adult table.
Why mention Smollett, then?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
This was after someone set his house on fire
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.
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.
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.
How FUCKED UP in the head do you have to be to do something like this.
What the actual FUCK.
This makes me very sad.
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?
Joss said he left the house to go eat earlier on Thursday and thought he had turned everything off. He said he had been using a propane heater in the home for warmth. “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?”
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.
If.
If.
If.
If.
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?!
Whenever i see gun issues in the US i always like to post these videos. It’s easy to say muricans are retarded, everybody knows guns are the problem but it’s not that simple.
part 1: basics of a firearm
part 2: on gun laws
part 3: law-abiding citizensI’m not clicking your manifesto
I won’t lose sleep over it.
FYI it’s neither mine nor a manifesto.Worse, theyre YouTube links.
Damn I went in prepared to argue and instead the man has glorious respectful valid arguments, knowledge and tact? Even ethical moral wisdom?? Color me surprised. It was wild, thanks. I don’t agree that semi automatic guns should be this abundant since I dislike systematically slaying children, but it really is a breath of fresh air to hear not only rational thoughts but actual opinions, truths… There was a long time since I had any notion of that from someone that has different opinions on any topic coopted by the cultists. It feels emotional even, like an old friend returning that you didn’t realise you missed. God bless.
Its amazing that American vomits its culture onto everyone else, yet so little is understood by so many.
The wiki article on his death says that the San Antonio PD is saying that there was no evidence of hate crime up to that point, but if this was ongoing for literal years over 300+ incidents, i find that hard to believe. They need an outside-led investigation into that county PD.
Is it sad that my first suspicion is that it simply doesn’t meet the local legal definition of a hate crime because the laws are probably written to protect white people only?
Actually that was one of the few wins in the civil rights movement. But there are always forces who will use it against us.
You still need a PD willing to gather, keep secure and submit evidence that portrays it as a hate crime. The detectives and LEO’s involved may be hiding statements, motives, physical evidence, etc, by simply not recording it as such.
argument? the dude was being threated for MONTHS.
What the hell?
Guns are not a solution to an argument. Morons.
Person 1: I am going to use violence on you. Person 2: I don’t want you to use violence on me.
In the US it is, now. You can thank the Republicans and Democrats for thst., all vile self serving assholes that made the country into the hellhole that it is today
Munitions stores are now stocking bullets forged from Enlightened Bothsidesism.
Right, because guns weren’t used to settle disputes in America until very recent history. /s
Yeah I know, I live here. I own guns. I’m just not a fucking idiot.
What if the next stonewall riot is going to be at his killers home. Culminate pride month by taking over that neighborhood completely.
I got a three day ban on Reddit after saying something about ‘human blenderizing’ the dude who did this.
It’s not even a real word, nor even an actual real object. I fucking hate Reddit. I wish Lemmy had more traffic.
RIP 🪦 We will miss you.
Guess how they make pet food? Industrial blenders you can toss a horse into.
Next time try frog in a blender.
Just for suggesting someone make a 3d model? Harsh
Reddit indeed is pure shit.
You read the part about the dog’s skull, and well, you hope that the blenderizing happens slowly.
This post has ~800 upvotes and ~150 comments. Lemme is doing great. It would be nice if the smaller communities were bigger, but there was a point on Reddit probably around 2015ish where it became too many people. I am enjoying this way more. Making a comment doesn’t feel like shouting into a crowd of shouting people the way that Reddit does. There is actual conversation.
It’s doing “great” but there is a massive gap in diversity and breadth of topics/subs here unfortunately. Obviously it gets better over time in theory but right now the majority of content exists over there… sadly.
Lemmy has plenty. It needs some polish but I’ve never looked back after the day I got rid of Reddit.
We live in a society where this happens and it’s just one of those things. People shouldn’t be used to this.
