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A targeted shooting in broad daylight claimed the life of Jonathan McKinsey.
The New York Times engineer was a transgender man who had spent the past year locked into a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife.
Authorities almost immediately arrested his 77-year-old in-laws, who were walking away from the scene.
Police have still not identified a motive for the killing, but the backstory suggests a series of possibilities.
A targeted shooting in broad daylight ended Jonathan McKinsey’s life
On Saturday, September 26, Jonathan McKinsey was shot in broad daylight at a Dublin, California sports complex, the Mercury News reports.
He was only 40 years old.
Jonathan was a games engineer who worked for the New York Times.
He had also spent the past year locked in a bitter custody dispute with his estranged wife.
Both had accused the other of abuse. Jonathan was transgender. And police have arrested Jonathan’s elderly in-laws for the shooting.
Authorities have not announced a motive in Jonathan’s shooting death.
They have, however, said that he was deliberately targeted.
Shortly after 3 PM on Saturday, police arrested his in-laws Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both of whom are 77.
They were walking away from the scene.
The two are being held without bail on suspicion of murder (and other felonies) at Santa Rita Jail. Their arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30.
Everything about this case is upsetting, including the background
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Jonathan McKinsey was seen lying behind a white SUV with its rear hatch open. Presumably, he was either loading or unloading the vehicle at the time of his murder.
Stunned bystanders stood nearby.
It sounds like the investigation is still in its early stages, as investigators had not yet presented the case to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office on the following Monday.
Thus far, there is no indication that Candice Jang, Jonathan’s ex-wife, had any involvement in the shooting.
She and Jonathan had spent the bulk of the past year embroiled in a heated custody battle, one that included mutual allegations of abuse and mutual restraining orders.
In December 2025, Jonathan filed for divorce against Candice Jang after well over a decade of marriage.
Candice’s restraining order accused him of having hurt her arm by grabbing her and of having slapped one of their children. The allegations resulted in a criminal investigation into Jonathan, though that case is now moot.
Jonathan’s restraining order accused Candice of having attacked him with a frying pan, of having yanked medical tubes out of his body as he recovered from surgery related to his transition in 2010, and of being verbally abusive towards their children.
Many allegations came out regarding his alleged shooters, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, during the divorce, including allegations of rancid homophobia and transphobia.
This is a horrible and extremely upsetting case. And it sounds like, whether one or both or neither parent was telling the truth, the former couple’s children have suffered the most.
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Lindsay Clancy returned to a Massachusetts courtroom today for the first time since her trial ended with a hung jury earlier this month.
And more than a thousand miles away, another accused killer is speaking about her connection with the Clancy case.
As you may have heard, Christa Pike is preparing to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
And as the convicted murderer awaits her fate, she says she feels an unexpected connection to Clancy.
Pike, now 50, was 18 when she was convicted of participating in the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, Tennessee.
She was sentenced to death and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection this week.
In a recent interview conducted through her attorneys, Pike discussed Clancy’s case and said she sees similarities between the two women, particularly when it comes to mental illness and the way women’s struggles are understood by the legal system.
“I feel a kinship with Lindsay,” Pike said, according to The Times of London (via The New York Post).
“We are both females who got into trouble because of uniquely female issues,” she added.
Clancy, of course, has spent the past several years at the center of her own highly publicized legal battle. She has admitted to killing her three children in 2023, while her defense argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore should not be held criminally responsible.
That trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Clancy remains hospitalized while prosecutors and her defense team navigate what comes next.
Pike said she was pleased with the outcome.
“I am pleased she received a mistrial and is getting the help she needs,” Pike said.
She also argued that her own case might have been viewed differently if it had gone to trial under today’s understanding of mental health and brain development.
“I think so, because science about brain development has evolved,” Pike said when asked whether jurors might have shown her more compassion today.
Pike claims that her mental-health history was not adequately presented during her 1996 trial. Her attorneys now point to a history of severe trauma, PTSD, and bipolar disorder as factors that should have been considered when she was sentenced to death.
“There are so many women who don’t get the help they need: me and others,” Pike said.
She also believes race played a role in the severity of her punishment, noting that her boyfriend at the time was Black.
“While racism has not gone away, it has diminished some,” Pike said. “I think I was more harshly judged because of my relationship with Tadaryl.”
Pike’s scheduled execution has prompted a last-minute legal effort from her attorneys, who have asked the Supreme Court to intervene. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has declined to grant clemency.
Meanwhile, Pike says she is not afraid of what comes next.
“I am not afraid to die,” she recently said.
For now, both Pike and Clancy remain at the center of very different legal battles, with mental health, criminal responsibility, and the treatment of women playing major roles in each case.
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