JUNE 2025 EVENTS

Jonathan Joss, the gay Native American actor on “King of the Hill” who voiced John Redcorn, and performed the role of Chief Ken Hotate in Parks and Recreation, died in a shooting on Sunday.

San Antonio officers were dispatched to a shooting in progress at a home on Sunday night around 7 p.m. When they arrived at the scene, they found Joss near the road after he was shot multiple times. The officers attempted life-saving measures until medics arrived, but Joss was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooter fled in a vehicle but was detained by officers a block away and booked for murder. The investigation is still ongoing. 

In a statement on Joss’ Facebook page, the actor’s husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales wrote, “My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done,” de Gonzales wrote. “Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life.”

Joss voiced John Redcorn from Season 2 through Season 13 of “King of the Hill” and already recorded lines for the upcoming revival of the popular animated series. Joss took over the role from original actor Victor Aaron after he died in 1996 in a car accident.

Joss had Comanche and White Mountain Apache ancestry. 

David Richardson, who has led FEMA since early May, said during a briefing that he was not aware the country has a hurricane season.

It was not clear to staff whether he meant it literally, as a joke, or in some other context.

NPR interviewed Rebecca González-Ramos, the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands last week. To date ICE agents in Puerto Rico have arrested close to 500 immigrants for deportation in the four months since Trump returned to power. Fewer than 80 had criminal records, and among those who did, the single charge most had faced was for re-entering the United States after a prior deportation. Three-quarters of those arrested have been Dominican nationals.

During this interview, she was asked about their operation at La Concha Hotel in early May, in which 53 Dominican construction workers were arrested.

González-Ramos responded that “There was intelligence. And we moved forward with it. As part of all of our business inspections, we get a lot of intelligence from competitors, people that, you know, might have bid for that same contract and know that the individual that actually won the bid can do it because he's paying his workers less. A lot of revenge. I'm not saying that's what happened here. That's just an example.”

When asked if people were now reporting people they just don't like, she stated that “Yeah, we didn't used to get that. Now, I want to say we get around 10 to 12 calls a day in our communications center, and maybe five of those are immigration related. There's always somebody that it's like, there's a neighbor that they don't get along with, or an ex-husband, ex-wife, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend.”

When asked if her agents check out those tips as well, she went on to say that “Yeah, it's added to the leads. And if it's a valid lead, we'll move forward on it. Everything that comes through the tip line in regards to immigration, it's going to be a priority.”

NPR went on to ask “Do you recognize the fear, the terror, that the people and communities that you're targeting for deportation feel?”

To which her response was “I can definitely see where they can be concerned and worried. It's a change in somebody's life. But I don't see a reason for them to be scared or live in fear, because the message is very simple. If you do not have a status in the United States, you have to leave. They're not going to be mistreated. They have mechanisms to leave on their own. I see how they can be concerned. But afraid? Or to live in fear? I don't see a reason for that.”