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DUBLIN, Calif. – The 40-year-old man allegedly killed near a Dublin park by his parents-in-law \u2013 who witnesses said took turns shooting at him \u2013 was a New York Times games engineer, the news organization confirmed.<\/p>\n
The New York Times confirmed to KTVU that McKinsey was the head engineer of the “Games Player Experience.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Jonathan McKinsey’s LinkedIn profile, confirmed by the New York Times.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
McKinsey was shot to death on Saturday<\/a> in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Grounds \u2013 a popular park \u2013 and his 77-year-old in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen \u2014 were arrested shortly after. The couple is set to be arraigned on Wednesday, likely on murder charges, jail records indicate.\u00a0<\/p>\n Efforts to reach the couple on Monday or determine if they had an attorney were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n McKinsely’s LinkedIn page<\/a> also states that he earned a master’s in computer science at UC Berkeley, and a bachelor’s of science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Before the New York Times, his LinkedIn Profile stated he had been an engineering manager at Splunk.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prior charges <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Alameda County court records show that McKinsey was charged in 2025 with two misdemeanor counts of child abuse.<\/p>\n His wife reported that her 6-year-old son had been struck in the face with an open hand by her husband, identified as McKinsey, according to a probable cause statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n She also reported a domestic violence incident from 2018, where McKinsey allegedly grabbed her left arm and left a bruise.<\/p>\n That same day, deputies went to McKinsey’s home and found a 2-year-old girl upstairs who had been left without supervision, according to a probable cause statement. Deputies said that McKinsey had left the child alone for more than an hour when he went shopping, the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> reported that he had pleaded not guilty to those charges and had been ordered to take 12 parenting classes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Questions remain <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Dublin police take a man into custody after Jonathan McKinsley killed in park. Sept. 26, 2026 Photo: Tracy A.\u00a0 <\/p>\n It’s not clear if McKinsey’s past was directly related to his death.\u00a0<\/p>\n What prompted his in-laws to shoot him on this particular weekend afternoon has not been revealed.<\/p>\n The elderly in-laws were taken into custody shortly after the shooting. A woman named Tracy A. shared a photo of the elderly husband being handcuffed in the park.\u00a0<\/p>\n Witnesses were shocked.<\/p>\n “There were kids and families, just like you see now,” said Kevin Stein of Dublin. “This parking lot is full on a Saturday. I mean this place is busy on a Saturday. It’s incredible that they’d just do that right in front of everybody.”<\/p>\n The city of Dublin issued a statement about how “deeply saddened” they are, stating that “incidents like this are rare in our community. Dublin remains a safe place to live, work, and visit.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story comes from Dublin police, the city of Dublin, witnesses, court records, and the San Francisco Chronicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dublin<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN, Calif. – The 40-year-old man allegedly killed near a Dublin park by his parents-in-law \u2013 who witnesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16889,35966,850,122035,9,11,10,12,618],"class_list":["post-359031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dublin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a8f4b1ad-098a-4f28-bba7-0f8e6563c799.jpg\")
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