A New York Times technology executive who was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws in California had been embroiled in a bitter legal and family dispute with them and his estranged wife over his transgender identity, according to court records.

Jonathan McKinsey’s wife, Candice Jang, sought a restraining order against him in 2025. McKinsey responded by filing his own petition for protection.

In his filing, obtained by The Mercury News, McKinsey alleged that Jang tried to remove medical tubes from his body in 2010 as he transitioned from a woman to a man. The couple married the following year.

McKinsey further alleged that his mother-in-law called him a “disgusting queer” and a “pervert” after a dispute involving one of the couple’s children and the child’s clothing.

The 40-year-old, who served as The Times’ head of engineering for games player experience, was shot in a sports complex parking lot in Dublin, California, at about 3 p.m. Saturday.

Police arrested his in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77. The pair are accused of murder.

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Court filings describe a history of violence between McKinsey and Jang. In his restraining-order request, McKinsey alleged that Jang struck him with a frying pan in 2013 and verbally abused their children.

The petition also accused Chen, Jang’s mother, of verbally mistreating the couple’s children, including during disputes over what they wore.

McKinsey himself faced two misdemeanor child-abuse charges in 2025 after Jang contacted Dublin police and alleged that he had slapped her six-year-old son in the face.

Jang also told investigators about a 2018 domestic-violence episode in which she said McKinsey bruised her left arm, according to the records.

McKinsey pleaded not guilty to both charges and was released from jail on the condition that he attend parenting classes.

A Times spokesperson confirmed that McKinsey was the victim of Saturday afternoon’s shooting and said he had worked for the newspaper since 2023.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a forceful warning to a large migrant caravan that entered Mexico and is traveling north toward the U.S.-Mexico border.

“USBP is closely engaged with its international partners to monitor their movement and any additional developments,” DHS told Fox News in a statement. “[United States Border Patrol] USBP reminds migrants that under the leadership of President Trump and Homeland Secretary Mullin, the border has remained closed and secured for the last 16 months.”

The group included several hundred people as of Monday, with Honduran, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, Ecuadorian and Haitian migrants making up most of the caravan.

According to U.S. Border Patrol, the caravan left San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Sept. 20.

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DHS warned people contemplating the trip to the southern border that the era of “catch and release” has ended, declaring that “Biden’s disastrous open border policy has been SEALED SHUT.”

“Anyone attempting to illegally enter the United States will be apprehended, prosecuted, and removed from the country,” the department said.

News of the caravan emerged during a divisive midterm election season, as the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign became a central issue in political debate across the country.

Since returning to office last year, President Donald Trump has ordered broad deportation efforts and expanded immigration enforcement operations, while illegal immigration levels have remained historically low.

Several migrants said improved financial prospects were among the main reasons they were traveling toward the United States.

“I want to reach the United States,” José Zelaya, a Honduran migrant traveling with seven family members, told the Spanish-language EFE news agency, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Zelaya said the caravan was not being directed by a formal leadership group, explaining that “hunger and need” were motivating migrants to continue the journey.

The mother of a British woman shot dead by her father in Texas has travelled to the United States to demand that prosecutors reopen the investigation into her daughter’s death.

Jane Coates, 49, made the more than 4,000-mile journey to the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, calling for a fresh examination of the shooting of her daughter, Lucy Harrison.

“I’ve come all this way because I wanted to look these people in the eye and ask them some very simple questions about my daughter,” she said.

“I’ve travelled thousands of miles to Texas because I’m not prepared to give up on Lucy. I never will.”

Ms Harrison, a 23-year-old fashion buyer from Warrington, Cheshire, was shot in the chest on January 10, 2025, while visiting her father, Kris Harrison, at his home in Prosper, an affluent town north of Dallas.

Local police investigated the incident, but records indicate it was treated as an accident from the beginning. Mr Harrison, 52, was never arrested.

He said the gun discharged accidentally in the master bedroom as he showed it to his daughter, shortly before she was due to leave for the airport and return to the UK.

A Texas grand jury determined there was insufficient basis for a case, while a UK coroner concluded at an inquest earlier this year that Ms Harrison had been unlawfully killed.

Ms Coates believes the investigation should be reopened, arguing that important lines of inquiry were never fully pursued.

Outside the district attorney’s office, she appealed to officials to meet with her and listen to her concerns.

“I just wish they cared enough to meet me… I have lost my daughter. I can never get her back,” she said.

“The very least I thought I could expect was for the people responsible for investigating her death to give me the courtesy of sitting down with me and hearing me out.”

Ms Coates has identified several alleged shortcomings in the original inquiry, including the decision not to conduct toxicology tests despite officers reportedly smelling alcohol on Mr Harrison after the shooting.

She also raised concerns about the absence of gunshot residue testing, inconsistencies in Mr Harrison’s account and unanswered questions about the bullet’s trajectory and the wound’s entry point.

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“These are not minor errors or omissions. They are fundamental to any homicide investigation and they simply weren’t done,” she said.

Her concerns have been echoed by Craig Miller, a respected former Dallas police chief who reviewed the case files and found investigators did not appear to follow several key lines of inquiry.

Mr Miller, who now works as a law enforcement expert witness, agreed there were several departures from what he described as nationally accepted investigative ‘best practice’.

Welcoming his findings, Ms Coates said: ‘We have been saying for a long time that Lucy’s death was not properly investigated.

‘Craig Miller’s review is so important… he is a former senior Dallas police officer who understands the standards expected of a major American police investigation.’

Ms Coates’s visit to Texas comes after repeated requests for meetings with both Prosper Police and the Collin County District Attorney’s Office were declined, according to the campaign for justice for her daughter.

Appealing directly to the authorities, Ms Coates urged them to reconsider, adding: ‘Lucy deserved a proper investigation when she died. She must have one now.’

Radd Seiger, spokesman for the Justice for Lucy Harrison campaign, said Mis Coates had been forced to make the journey because she still had not received answers after her daughter’s death.

‘We decided to come to Texas to appeal directly to the American people about the gross injustice in Lucy’s case,’ he added.

‘Having been here for a couple of days now, we have been quite simply overwhelmed by messages of support from people in Prosper, Collin County and right across Texas.

‘You do not need to be a lawyer or police officer to spot the terrible gaps in the investigation.

‘There is no other way to put it, I am afraid. The Texas authorities let Lucy down. They have let her loved ones down.’

He added: ‘Lucy and her loved ones deserve justice. The police and District Attorney responsible for this mess can run from the truth, but they cannot hide from the people.’

The campaign plans a week of media appearances and public engagements in Dallas as pressure grows on local authorities to revisit the case.

Prosper Police and the Collin County District Attorney’s Office have maintained that the investigation into Ms Harrison’s death was ‘thorough and complete’.

A fundraising campaign to help cover the family’s travel costs has so far raised more than £7,000.

To donate, visit the Justice for Lucy Harrison GoFundMe page at Justice4Luce.

A delivery worker riding an e-bike was killed Monday in Herald Square after a dump truck struck her and continued driving, police and a street-safety advocacy group said.

The 50-year-old cyclist and the truck were both traveling west on West 34th Street when the crash occurred at about 10:50 a.m. near Seventh Avenue. The collision happened outside Primark and only a short distance from Macy’s iconic flagship store, according to the NYPD.

After hitting the cyclist, the truck driver continued west along West 34th Street, authorities said.

The woman was using a JOCO rental e-bike while making a delivery. She was pronounced dead at the scene, police and Transportation Alternatives confirmed.

A witness who spoke anonymously to AM NY said the crash quickly attracted a crowd on the heavily trafficked Midtown street.

“The truck came, and the bike was there, and the truck turned and hit her,” the witness said. The person said they were walking across the street when they saw the crash, prompting people nearby to rush over and gather around the scene.

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Several hours later, the NYPD said investigators had located and questioned the driver. No charges had been filed as of late Monday afternoon.

“We’re horrified and heartbroken that another bike rider is dead,” Transportation Alternatives said in a statement. “This is the 20th bike rider killed on our streets this year — the 20th New Yorker whose community is now grieving a sudden and preventable loss.”

“In just two days, the City Council will hold a hearing on e-bikes,” the group continued. “During such a deadly year, it would make sense to hold a hearing on bikes and bike safety — but we must be clear about the risks and the dangers. Seventeen New Yorkers on e-bikes have been killed on our streets so far this year, and our city’s leaders should be doing everything in their power to ensure safety on our streets.”

Monday’s fatal hit-and-run followed the death of 68-year-old Ismael Rodriguez, a Bronx resident who was struck by a driver one week earlier. Police said the vehicle may have been a Lamborghini.

Authorities had not located that motorist by Monday.

Earlier this month, 77-year-old Thomas Bakas died after being thrown from an e-scooter during a head-on daytime collision with a bicyclist outside a Hilton hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, police said.

Newly released NYPD body-camera video captures officers urging Pamela Cisneros to drop two knives and “just breathe” shortly before police fatally shot the woman accused of killing a New Jersey mother in Times Square.

The footage, released Friday, shows officers spending roughly four minutes attempting to de-escalate the confrontation with Cisneros, 49, outside One Times Square. Authorities said she had stabbed two people only minutes earlier.

Throughout the standoff, Cisneros refused repeated orders to surrender. She told officers she was “tired of this world” and warned that police would have to kill her.

“There’s a lot to live for,” one officer told her.

“The world is hard. Especially New York City,” the officer continued. “Trust me, we all suffer. But this is not the way.”

As officers tried to establish a connection with Cisneros, one asked whether she believed in God.

“No. Not anymore,” Cisneros answered.

Officers repeatedly told Cisneros that they were there to help her.

“We’re trying to help you,” one officer said.

The situation became increasingly tense when Cisneros said police would have to kill her.

“You’re going to have to kill me,” she said.

Moments afterward, she added, “Either that or I’m going to kill all of you.”

Police continued ordering Cisneros to “drop the knife” and “just breathe,” but she would not surrender.

At about 4:29 p.m., officers used Tasers after Cisneros began waving both knives. The devices failed to stop her. When she moved toward officers with the blades pointed at them, police opened fire and struck her. She was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police recovered both knives at the scene.

Authorities said the confrontation started minutes after Cisneros stabbed a 68-year-old man near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue, leaving him seriously injured.

She then walked north while carrying a knife in each hand before fatally stabbing 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, of Chester, New Jersey, near West 42nd Street about 20 seconds later.

Transit officers encountered Cisneros outside One Times Square about a minute later and repeatedly ordered her to drop the knives while attempting to engage her in conversation. Additional officers soon arrived and joined the effort to de-escalate the confrontation.

Piacenti, a Bank of America executive and Fordham Law graduate, had returned to work just days earlier after spending five months on maternity leave caring for her newborn daughter. She died from her injuries. The 68-year-old man survived after suffering a stab wound to the abdomen.

Police have described the attacks as random and unprovoked.

The NYPD said Cisneros had documented mental health-related encounters with the department in 2018 and 2019 but no prior arrest record. There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism.

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division continues to investigate the shooting before the case is presented to the department’s Use of Force Review Board.