King of the Hill voice actor Jonathon Joss has died after a taking pictures exterior his house in Texas at age 59, the San Antonio Police Division has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
Based on a police report, officers on the SAPD have been referred to as to a house at 200 Dorsey Drive in San Antonio at simply after 7 p.m. on Sunday night to reply to an obvious taking pictures. “As soon as the officers arrived on the location, the sufferer was discovered close to the roadway of the placement. The officers tried life saving measures till EMS arrived. EMS pronounced the sufferer deceased,” the report stated of Joss dying from accidents sustained after a number of gun photographs.
A suspect within the taking pictures, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, 56 years of age, was detained, interviewed and later booked on a homicide cost. Joss grew to become often known as the voice actor behind John Redcorn within the King of the Hill animated collection and his position as Chief Ken Hotate in Parks and Recreation.
On Jan. 23, 2025, Joss misplaced his childhood house in south San Antonio and three canines in a serious fireplace, in line with a GoFundMe page.
“This wasn’t simply any house – it was the home his father constructed for his mom in 1957, crammed with a lifetime of reminiscences. Tragically, 3 of Jonathan’s canines additionally perished within the blaze, including immeasurable emotional ache to an already heartbreaking state of affairs,” the fundraising web page states. The SAPD added their investigation into the taking pictures and homicide of Joss is ongoing.
On Monday, Joss’ husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, posted an in depth message on Fb revealing the main points of the taking pictures. He wrote that they have been checking the mail at their former house — the one which burned down “after over two years of threats from folks within the space who repeatedly advised us they might set it on fireplace.”
“After we returned to the positioning to examine our mail we found the cranium of one in every of our canines and its harness positioned in clear view,” de Gonzales wrote. “This precipitated each of us extreme emotional misery. We started yelling and crying in response to the ache of what we noticed. Whereas we have been doing this a person approached us. He began yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We weren’t threatening anybody. We have been grieving. We have been standing facet by facet. When the person fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way in which. He saved my life.
“Jonathan is my husband. He gave me extra love in our time collectively than most individuals ever get. We have been newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We have been within the means of in search of a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by somebody who couldn’t stand the sight of two males loving one another. I used to be with him when he handed. I advised him how a lot he was liked.”
Joss was born on Dec. 22, 1965 in San Antonio. He graduated from McCollum Excessive Faculty after which Our Girl of the Lake College, a personal faculty in San Antonio, with a BA in theater arts. Joss began out with performing roles in TV films like The Substitute Spouse and With out Consent, earlier than touchdown a three-season arc within the position of Raymond Firewalker in Walker, Texas Ranger.
His different credit included roles in Ray Donovan, Friday Night time Lights, The Wild Thornberrys, Chartered, Tulsa King, The Magnificent Seven, The Messengers and The League. And Joss did voice work for the Wasteland 3, Pink Useless Redemption, Days Gone and The Strolling Useless: Michonne video video games.
King of the Hill producers Mike Choose, Greg Daniels and Saladin Patterson shared in a press release, “Jonathan Joss introduced King of the Hill’s ‘John Redcorn’ to life for over a dozen seasons, together with within the upcoming revival. His voice might be missed at King of the Hill, and we lengthen our deepest condolences to Jonathan’s family and friends.”
Kimberly Nordyke contributed to this report.
Up to date 3:55 p.m. June 2: Added particulars from Tristan Kern de Gonzales’ Fb publish.
Up to date 6:40 p.m. June 2: Added assertion from King of the Hill producers.