Now we learn some strange happenings before the Murder?
"The puzzle pieces of
Jonathan Joss' final days are coming together.
Just two days before the
King of the Hill actor was
shot and killed at the age of 59 on Sunday, June 1, in San Antonio, Texas, he was escorted out of a panel for the iconic animated series at the Paramount Theatre as part of the ATX TV Festival on Friday, May 30, in Austin, Texas.
While the panel was in full swing, Joss stood up and approached the microphone set up for the Q&A portion of the event, which had not begun yet, an eyewitness in the audience tells PEOPLE. The onlooker says security guards came out at this time.
The eyewitness says audience members "laughed nervously in the crowd" and that
King of the Hill co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels didn't seem alarmed while others appeared "a bit worried or uncomfortable."
"It seemed he did get a little emotional while he spoke, but mostly he was calm and he just needed to say his piece," the onlooker adds of Joss.
"I'm an actor," Joss said in a
fan-captured video of the moment. "I see a mic, I use it. I see a wrong, I make it right. I take a breath, I want to breathe." Joss later revealed to the attendees that his house had burned down three months prior, seemingly indicating it was a hate crime as he said it was "because I'm gay." He was then seen walking toward the stage and across the front row.
At one point in the video, Judge told the audience Joss played John Redcorn on
King of the Hill and was returning for the revival.
"As Joss moved away from the mic to go back to his seat, that's when security told him he had to leave and he exited the theater calmly and cooperatively," the onlooker says, adding that the panel got "back on track" after this.
From left, John Redcorn, Bobby Hill and Hank Hill in an episode of "King of the Hill."20th Century Fox / Courtesy Everett Collection
A new season of
"King of the Hill" revival is set to debut on Hulu in August. In a credit sequence shared Friday, John Redcorn is seen driving by in his classic tan Jeep.
'King of the Hill' voice actor Jonathan Joss was escorted out of an ATX TV Festival panel for the iconic animated series' revival on May 30, just two days before he was shot and killed during a dispute with his former neighbor in San Antonio, Texas.
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