{"id":359727,"date":"2026-09-29T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359727\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:00:07","slug":"new-york-times-executive-allegedly-killed-by-in-laws-at-california-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/359727\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times executive allegedly killed by in-laws at California park"},"content":{"rendered":"

DUBLIN, Cali. (TNND) \u2014 A New York Times Games engineering executive was fatally shot Saturday in a California parking lot, and police arrested his in-laws on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n

Dublin Police Services<\/a> said a sergeant was driving near the Dublin Sports Grounds around 3:08 p.m. when he saw a man lying in the parking lot. At about the same time, dispatchers began receiving multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting.<\/p>\n

Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A New York Times spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital <\/a>that McKinsey was director of engineering for games and had worked for the company since January 2023.<\/p>\n

\"NYT<\/p>\n

NYT exec allegedly killed by in-laws (KGO via CNN Newsource)<\/p>\n

Officers located and detained two suspects \u2014 Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77 \u2014 within minutes. Police credited witnesses and community members with helping officers make the arrests.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir cooperation was critical to the swift arrest of the suspects,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

Zhang and Chen, who police identified as McKinsey\u2019s in-laws, were arrested on suspicion of murder and booked into Santa Rita Jail. The married couple is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at 9 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n

Court records obtained by Fox News Digital show McKinsey was involved in an ongoing legal dispute with his wife, Candice Jang. He faced a 2025 child-abuse case alleging cruelty to a child by endangering health and corporal injury to a child, and the two separately sought domestic-violence restraining orders against each other. <\/p>\n

McKinsey filed for divorce in December 2025; a status hearing had been scheduled for Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

Police have not publicly identified a motive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBLIN, Cali. (TNND) \u2014 A New York Times Games engineering executive was fatally shot Saturday in a California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-359727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","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\/359727","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=359727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}