California Couple, 77, Charged in Ambush Killing of NYT Executive Amid Custody Fight
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 1
California Couple, 77, Charged in Ambush Killing of NYT Executive Amid Custody Fight
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 1
Summary
Less than three weeks after a Facebook post from Jonathan McKinsey drew a message from his father urging him to visit home, the 40-year-old New York Times Games executive was shot dead in a Dublin park parking lot.
Alameda County prosecutors say his in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, lay in wait and took turns shooting him during a planned ambush tied to a bitter divorce and child-custody fight involving their daughter.
Three witnesses identified the couple, surveillance video allegedly showed them firing in concert, and police stopped their black Honda Civic within minutes; court records say Zhang later admitted shooting and investigators recovered a second gun.
The killing came amid years of family-law conflict, with competing domestic-violence claims, pending custody hearings, and allegations from McKinsey that his in-laws had targeted him and his children with abuse and anti-LGBTQ slurs.