Graphic Abuse Allegations Emerge In Dublin Killing Of Newspaper Exec: Reports

DUBLIN, CA — Court records have revealed graphic new details about the contentious marriage and divorce of Candice Jang and her estranged husband Jonathan McKinsey, who was shot to death Saturday afternoon at the crowded Dublin Sports Grounds. Jang’s parents, Shili Chen and Shouyong Zhang, were arrested Saturday afternoon and are both being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and other felonies in connection with the shooting.

Police did not ascribe any motive to the killing, but court records reviewed by the New York Times and the Bay Area News Group show that McKinsey had recently filed for divorce in December. Both spouses accused the other of physical violence against their children and each other. In October 2025, Jang filed a petition for a restraining order against McKinsey, alleging domestic violence. In December 2025, McKinsey filed a petition for a restraining order against Jang, also alleging physical and verbal abuse from both Jang and her parents. McKinsey also pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor charges of child abuse. At the time of his death, McKinsey was allowed two hours per week with their three children, supervised visitation with his children, though he was petitioning for unsupervised time, according to the Associated Press.

Jang alleged more than a dozen alleged domestic violence incidents between November 2020 and July 2025, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. According to the Bay Area News Group, Jang alleged in her petition that McKinsey hit one of his sons in the face, leaving a large bruise. In a criminal investigation into those claims, Jang also alleged that he had grabbed her arm in 2018 hard enough to leave bruises. Officers also reported that they found McKinsey’s two-year-old child alone in the home while he was shopping. He was charged with two misdemeanors and freed on $50,000 bail. He was trying to enter a mental health diversion program, the successful completion of which would have resulted in the charges being dismissed.

In his own filing, McKinsey said Jang was responsible for the children during the workweek and alleged that she deliberately failed to tell him their 2-year-old was sleeping upstairs in order to frame him, according to The New York Times. McKinsey also accused Jang of regularly abusing and neglecting their children, and threatening to call the police on him when he protested.

McKinsey also alleged Jang committed several instances of violence against him, including hitting him on the head with a frying pan, forcing him to ingest a cockroach, and striking him in the head with a mirror, which resulted in surgery and the permanent loss of sensation in his thumb, according to records obtained by The Times.

McKinsey, who was transgender, also alleged that Jang tried to pull medical tubes from his body after a procedure. He also alleged that Jang’s mother, suspect Shili Chen, directed anti-LGBTQ slurs at him and the child. According to his petition, Chen objected to his son wearing a dress, and used terms like “disgusting queer” and “pervert” to refer to him and the child. He also alleged that Jang’s father, suspect Shouyong Zhang, punched him in the chest when he was recovering from a double mastectomy surgery, according to The New York Times and the Bay Area News Group.

Zhang and Chen will be arraigned Wednesday morning at the East County Hall of Justice in Dublin.

Patch reached out to Alameda County Superior Court for further information.

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