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King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss is shot dead in Texas during an argument (www.the-independent.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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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[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[+] Stamets@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] die444die@lemmy.world 4 points 6 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.

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[–] millie@slrpnk.net 50 points 6 days ago (10 children)

That's a weird spelling of "hate-crime".

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[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Actually that was one of the few wins in the civil rights movement. But there are always forces who will use it against us.

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[–] b3an@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago

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

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Just for suggesting someone make a 3d model? Harsh

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

Reddit indeed is pure shit.

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago

argument? the dude was being threated for MONTHS.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago

How FUCKED UP in the head do you have to be to do something like this.

What the actual FUCK.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 days ago

We live in a society where this happens and it's just one of those things. People shouldn't be used to this.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Guns are not a solution to an argument. Morons.

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[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

This makes me very sad.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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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