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.
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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.
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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.
According to his husband’s posts on social media, these neighbors had subjected them to homophobic harassment and threats to burn down their home before now. And when they returned to find the skull of their dog out in plain view and started to cry, the neighbor came and killed Jonathan. His husband said he blocked the shot and saved his life.
What do you fucking do about a community like that? These people don’t exist in isolation. It’s scary as fuck and a heartbreaking way to start pride month.
Killing a guy because you don’t agree with who he loves is fucking disgusting.
Land of the free my ass.
The homophobic murder is absolutely horrific, but there is something about the dog skull that says “this is a next level psycho.”
Nah, that’s premeditation IMO. The dog skull provides provocation to draw both men into the open, giving you a clear line to fire.
This sure sounds like second degree murder to me.
it takes a psychopath to leave a dog’s skull in clear view as a lure to kill someone.
No hate like Christian love.
So you’re saying a Trump pardon is in the pipeline?
Abbott, not trump, but yes I wouldn’t be surprised. He’s pardoned murderers who agree with him before
If you happen to be in a minority that is targeted by american conservatives, you take it as a sign that it’s time to arm yourselves.
What do you fucking do about a community like that?
http://www.fox4news.com/news/neighborhood-rallies-after-carrollton-couples-gay-pride-flag-burned.amp
Organize. Stand up. Show yourself. Make them be the ones on the outside.
Train.
What do you fucking do about a community like that?
Cops doing nothing like always is just going to force vigilantism. I don’t get how they’re too stupid to see that.
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.
Too bad there had to be an argument or disagreement…
…about whether the victim(s) crying over their dead dog in front of their burned down house deserved to live?
I wonder what the chances are that the fire, the dog skull, and the murder were all the same shithead.
I wonder what the chances are that the fire, the dog skull, and the murder were all the same shithead.
Very high. And he’s probably buddies with the homophobic cops who dismissed years of reports of the threats to do those three things. And the same cops who have already “determined” that there was no hate crime.
Although I don’t think those cops have realized yet that he was on other popular shows like Parks and Rec as well. And famous people are speaking out. Meaning there will be a lot more scrutiny and they can’t just shrug and sweep it under the rug this time.
Some of those who burn crosses, hold office.
I hate this stupid fucking bigoted ass country.
And some of those who burn crosses, are the same that work forces.
Joss was a gay native man. Hell I could stop at native and the cops would already be looking to do anything other than help.
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.
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.
Feeling this now in full force.
Finally received my permanent ban from Reddit. I have still been using Lemmy for a while now but, unfortunately, only once a week (main account is slrpnk but that instance is down right now so on the alt) cause the amount of content is easily gone through unless I just want to browse All, which majority is stuff there is topics I couldn’t care less about, and the engagement is incredibly slim compared to the political and current events posts.
It’s rough cause a lot of the communities I interacted with just do not exist on the fediverse.
Just for suggesting someone make a 3d model? Harsh
Guess how they make pet food? Industrial blenders you can toss a horse into.
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argument? the dude was being threated for MONTHS.
If someone burned down that racists home. I would donate to their court case if they were caught.
Maybe go for the whole neighborhood, sounds like it was a group effort.
Texas is now Iran.
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
at least Iran was a modern and civil place before US meddling. don’t know if there was ever a time to say the same for Texas.
Yup. Texas, OTOH, seceded from Mexico because Mexico outlawed slavery and Texas had a problem with that, and the US was like, “Come on in, brother.”
It’s funny how they never tell you why Texas declared independence in school…
By the time you’re old enough to ask “why,” they’ve subjected you to enough propaganda to ensure it doesn’t even occur to you to do so.
Dam dog that one hits hard. Iran WAS better at some point. Wtf Texas.
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.
An argument.
The actor was reportedly shot multiple times over the weekend after a disagreement with a neighbor,
“Ahh gee hahaha just a small little kerfuffle happened, then someone involved in lost their temper and shot the other big sad wow carpe diem or something. No further looking into the situation required, just personal dispute Texas amiright lol.”
Weak ass title for a planned murder, hate crime, with animal cruelty.
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.
Loved him in Parks and Rec too.
This is sad and awful.
Never realized it was the same guy, I never really thought about who voiced John red corn before
I didn’t either until I saw his picture
Damn! Fucking America with every lunatic having access to guns.
RIP Jonathan Joss
Guns are not a solution to an argument. Morons.
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.
Yeah I know, I live here. I own guns. I’m just not a fucking idiot.
Right, because guns weren’t used to settle disputes in America until very recent history. /s
Person 1: I am going to use violence on you. Person 2: I don’t want you to use violence on me.
I’d say only one party is around to dispute that claim.
