‘King Of The Hill’ Actor Jonathan Joss Killed In Shooting In San Antonio
Jonathan Joss, who voiced John Redcorn on multiple seasons of Fox’s animated series King of the Hill, was shot and killed Sunday in San Antonio, police have confirmed.
Police say Joss, 59, was found shot near a roadway after officers were dispatched to the scene of a shooting in progress in the early evening hours. Police attempted life-saving measures, but paramedics pronounced Joss deceased.
A suspect, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, 56, was located and eventually booked for murder, according to the police. The investigation is ongoing.
Joss, a native of San Antonio, had worked steadily as an actor since the mid-1990s, first appearing in the Luke Perry rodeo movie 8 Seconds. He worked in several TV movies and had an six-episode arc in the series Walker, Texas Ranger. His later TV credits includes Friday Night Lights, The League, Ray Donovan, In Plain Sight and Parks & Recreation.
He appeared in 34 episodes of King of the Hill, according to IMDb, and also voiced the John Redcorn character in the King of the Hill video game. It was one of several video game credits that also included voice work in Red Dead Redemption, The Walking Dead: Michonne, Days Gone, Cyberpunk 2077 and Wasteland 3.
On the film side, he appeared in the Coen brothers’ True Grit, Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven and 2021’s The Forever Purge.
Most recently, he played Bad Face on Paramount+’s Tulsa King.
