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.

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    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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      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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      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.

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        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.

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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.

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      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?

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          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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      Lemmy has plenty. It needs some polish but I’ve never looked back after the day I got rid of Reddit.

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    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.

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      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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    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.

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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.

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    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.

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      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.