King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation Actor Jonathan Joss Dies Aged 59 Following Shooting

King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation histrion Jonathan Joss has died aged 59 aft a shooting successful Texas.

The San Antonio Police Department and eyewitnesses reported seeing Joss and his neighbour get into an statement yesterday, June 1, 2025. As shared by TMZ, the tense speech is said to person escalated to the constituent the neighbour changeable respective bullets into the histrion earlier leaving successful his vehicle.

Paramedics arrived to assistance Joss but were incapable to prevention him. Police person since apprehended fishy Sigfredo Alvarez-Cega, who has been charged with murder, with enslaved acceptable astatine $200,000. The taxable of the statement remains unclear.

Jonathan Joss, known arsenic the dependable of King of the Hill's John Redcorn and recurring quality Chief Ken Hotate connected Parks and Recreation, has been fatally changeable astatine 59. pic.twitter.com/Wf2xqkkuZj

— IGN (@IGN) June 2, 2025

Joss’ past successful amusement stems backmost to the ‘90s, wherever helium appeared successful episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, The Wild Thornberrys, and more. He went connected to lend his talents to live-action projects similar True Grit and Ray Donovan but besides provided dependable enactment connected video games specified arsenic Cyberpunk 2077, Wasteland 3, and Days Gone.

Joss whitethorn beryllium champion known for his enactment connected Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ classical animated drama series, King of the Hill, wherever helium played John Redcorn. One of the show’s galore acquainted faces, John Redcorn maintained a beingness connected King of the Hill from its aboriginal days up to its extremity with Season 13 successful 2009 (though Joss lone took implicit for the portion starting successful Season 2).

Amy Poehler arsenic Leslie Knope and Jonathan Joss arsenic Ken Hotate successful Parks and Recreation. Photo by Ben Cohen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images.

A King of the Hill revival series, which revealed its time-skip intro series conscionable past week, has a merchandise day of August 4 connected Hulu. It volition diagnostic overmuch of its archetypal formed reprising their roles, including Joss, who returned to dependable John Redcorn 1 much time. It’s unclear however salient his portion successful the upcoming play volition be.

Fans of Joss’ enactment person taken to societal media to station astir their favourite moments from his work, sharing clips and images celebrating his life.

Rest successful Peace, Jonathan Joss 🕯️ pic.twitter.com/xe21yFrmfK

— The Dan The Man Show 💥 (@DanManShow) June 2, 2025

John Redcorn was beauteous overmuch the lone modern Native practice I had successful drama increasing up. Probably the funniest Native quality successful cartoon past and a batch of that was connected Jonathan Joss' transportation cleanable rezzy uncle performance. RIP to 1 of the champion to ever bash it. pic.twitter.com/5uEnYikeEC

— Joey Clift (@joeytainment) June 2, 2025

RIP to the large Jonathan Joss who played John Redcorn connected King of the Hill and Ken Hotate connected Parks and Rec.
LEGENDpic.twitter.com/hMLizw8sWV

— The Professor Nick Harrison (@MrProfessor318) June 2, 2025

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