A tech executive behind the popular New York Times games was allegedly shot dead by his elderly parents-in-law in a brazen broad daylight attack, police say.
Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, allegedly fatally shot their son-in-law Jonathan McKinsey, 40, in a parking lot in California on Saturday.
McKinsey, the head of engineering for games player experience at the New York Times since 2023, was raced to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene, police say.
Witnesses reported seeing two masked shooters approach McKinsey in the parking lot and took turns unloading a barrage of shots into him, before they were arrested by a passing cop, reports the New York Post.
Images allegedly showed the elderly Chinese couple being taken into custody by the side of the road.
Police have not said what the possible motive may have been for the daylight shooting, with Zhang and Chen booked into Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of murder.
The couple are facing a slew of charges including murder, felony conspiracy, child endangerment, and dangerously firing a gun.
Elderly Bay Area couple Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, allegedly took turns gunning down their son-in-law in a brazen broad daylight attack, police say
Jonathan McKinsey, 40, the head of engineering for games at the New York Times, was fatally shot in a parking lot in California on Saturday
