A Bay Area couple have been accused of shooting and killing their son-in-law in a suburban sports park on Saturday afternoon, the local police said.
The man, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds around 3 p.m. in a parking lot at Dublin Sports Grounds, an athletic complex and playground in Dublin, Calif., about 35 miles east of downtown San Francisco, according to Dublin Police Services.
Mr. McKinsey was director of engineering for the games department of The New York Times, according to a company spokesman. Before Mr. McKinsey began working at The Times in 2023, he worked for several tech companies including Splunk, Coursera and Oracle, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The authorities did not describe a motive for the shooting, but Mr. McKinsey and his wife had a turbulent marriage and were living separately, records show. Each had filed requests for domestic violence restraining orders against the other last year. Mr. McKinsey had also pleaded not guilty last year to two charges of misdemeanor child abuse.
Assad Razawi, a resident of Dublin, said he was outside a grocery store near his car on Saturday at around 3 p.m. when he heard what sounded like five or six gunshots coming from the sports park across the street. When he looked over, he said he saw a man drop to the ground in the parking lot and another man and woman walking calmly away from the scene. The San Francisco Chronicle was first to report Mr. Razawi’s account.
Around the same time, a Dublin police sergeant was driving by the park when he saw a man lying on the ground and stopped to investigate, the local police said. Emergency personnel began arriving after receiving 911 calls from people in the park about the shooting.
Witnesses directed officers to two individuals standing nearby, whom police identified as Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 76. They are a married couple who live in Dublin and are the parents of Mr. McKinsey’s wife, the police said.
Mr. Zhang and Ms. Chen were held on suspicion of murder, and detectives are continuing to investigate. They also were held on suspicion of willful discharge of a firearm with gross negligence; conspiracy; and child endangerment likely to produce great bodily injury or death. It was not clear which children the last booking charge pertained to.
They are scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday. It was unclear whether Mr. Zhang and Ms. Chen had legal representation.
Alameda County court records show that Mr. McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, filed a request for a temporary restraining order citing domestic violence in October 2025. She also sought a protective order against Mr. McKinsey for her three children and her mother.
A report from the Dublin Police Services noted that on Oct. 17 an officer met with Ms. Jang, who said that her husband had struck their 6-year-old “in the face with an open hand.” When officers went to the residence to contact Mr. McKinsey, they discovered a 2-year-old child in an upstairs bedroom who had been left without supervision. The officers say that Mr. McKinsey had left the child alone for over an hour while he went shopping.
Mr. McKinsey was later charged in Alameda County Superior Court with two misdemeanor counts of child abuse in connection with the separate incidents. He had pleaded not guilty to both charges and was released from jail on the condition that he complete 12 parenting classes. A pretrial hearing had been scheduled for next month.
In December, Mr. McKinsey also filed for a temporary restraining order against his wife, citing domestic violence. According to his request, his wife had been granted full custody of the children. In the filing, he accused his wife of regularly abusing their children and, during different past arguments, slamming a mirror on his head and hitting him in the head with a frying pan.
That same month, he filed for divorce. Efforts to reach Ms. Jang and her lawyer on Monday were unsuccessful.
Additional hearings on the restraining orders had been scheduled for this December.
Kitty Bennett and Georgia Gee contributed research.
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