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.
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.
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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.
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you should probably grow up
No thanks.
deftly avoiding the point
So why mention smollett, then?
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Oh damn, im so owned. You owned me so bad.
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.
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?!
Did you even read the story?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Lemmy has plenty. It needs some polish but I’ve never looked back after the day I got rid of Reddit.
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.
Guess how they make pet food? Industrial blenders you can toss a horse into.
Next time try frog in a blender.
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argument? the dude was being threated for MONTHS.
His death was so brutal. I hope people in San Antonio schedule a pride march in the voice actors neighborhood.
Also, I really think there should be a neighborhood watch or civilian guard force where lgtbq populace can ask for help or support when they’re being harassed. Like a civilian neighborhood watch app.
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There was no argument, he was crying at the display of his dogs skull the murderer made before he pulled up and shot him in cold blood.
Not to mention instigated for years and gangstalked from the sound of it until he mentally broke down. Something beyond jail deserves to happen to the people responsible.
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.
How do you know he was racist?
Because he was known to verbally assault the gay couple with slurs.
How does that make him racist?
So you think he’s merely homophobic and not racist?
Now that we know that the killer is Sigfredo Cejo Alvarez I suppose we can ask him. We all know how much Hispanics hate American Indians.
lol yeah? Should be obvious to anyone who’s glanced at a history book. There was this whole European conquest and genocide thing. You’ve never heard of Hernan Cortez or Geronimo?
Are you saying this Hispanic dude in the San Antonio suburbs is a 16th century Conquistador living in a community of people he hates?
It’s present premeditated actions. From threatening to burn someone’s home down to previous altercations. You don’t get a flood from a few rain drops. A storm comes first before the disaster.
E.g. you don’t know and are just spouting nonsense
The attacker could be American Indian as well for all you know
The information is in article moron.
moron
Okay where does it say the killer was racist? That should be easy for a smart guy like you.
Because someone on the internet is asking why/how a racist thing is racist. That’s a clear indication of racists.
So Sigfredo Cejo Alvarez is racist?
Yes. And homophobic, ignorant, terrorist, piece of shit, bigot, MAGA, murderer, etc.
Against who and how do you know?
Against his victims
What races is he racist against? How do you know he was racist against his victims and not just a homophobe?
How FUCKED UP in the head do you have to be to do something like this.
What the actual FUCK.
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.
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.
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We live in a society where this happens and it’s just one of those things. People shouldn’t be used to this.
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
In the 19th century civilians could own canons which were peak military technology at the time.
Cool. And?
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.
This makes me very sad.
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.
