Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender engineering executive for the New York Times, was allegedly shot dead by his in-laws amid ongoing legal disputes between him and the family.<\/p>\n
According to Bay Area police, McKinsey was shot Saturday afternoon just after 3 p.m. in Dublin, Calif. McKinsey, who served as the head of engineering and games player experiences for the Times, was found by a Dublin police officer on the ground outside of the Dublin Sports Grounds after a number of witnesses called in a shooting.<\/p>\n
McKinsey had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities shared on Monday.<\/p>\n
Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, were later identified as two suspects in the killing. The married couple were later identified as McKinsey’s in-laws.<\/p>\n
The pair are currently being held at the Santa Rita Jail amid pending charges.<\/p>\n
The shooting followed a tense legal dispute between McKinsey and his wife, Candice Jang, who were battling over custody at the time of his death. Per legal documents obtained by NBC News<\/a>, Jang had been granted a temporary restraining order against McKinsey, who had filed for divorce in December. However, per the New York Times<\/a>, McKinsey filed his own restraining against Jang, alleging abuse against his wife and her parents. McKinsey, who was a transgender man, alleged in one court filing that his mother-in-law called him, as well as one of his sons, a “pervert” and a “monster” after the boy was allowed to wear a dress. He also claimed his father-in-law punched him in the chest while he recovered from double mastectomy surgery in 2010.<\/p>\n The estranged couple were set to face off in a hearing in October.<\/p>\n McKinsey, who was 40 at the time of his death, worked at the Times since 2023. He received a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Tech before completing his master’s at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n The post Trans New York Times Executive Allegedly Shot Dead by In-Laws Amid Bitter Family Dispute<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender engineering executive for the New York Times, was allegedly shot dead by his in-laws…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133770,133687,133769,133768,133685,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-359537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-candice-jang","tag-dublin-sports-grounds","tag-legal-dispute","tag-legal-disputes","tag-mckinsey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359537","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=359537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}