McKinsey worked as a head engineer at the New York Times. He was in the middle of a contentious divorce from his wife, the daughter of the two people accused of killing him. Court records show she had filed for a domestic violence prevention order against him almost a year earlier, and McKinsey was also facing a criminal child abuse case at the time of his death.
A police sergeant and several witnesses found McKinsey with multiple gunshot wounds at the park. Investigators had not released a motive as of Monday afternoon, and the Chronicle reports the shooting shocked the quiet East Bay suburb where it happened.
For a town like Dublin, a killing in a public park in broad daylight is rare enough on its own. Add in the family connection, an in-law shooting, a pending divorce, a protective order, and an open child abuse case, and it becomes the kind of case that raises more questions than it answers right now.