A grandmother who allegedly gunned down her transgender New York Times executive son-in-law accused him of inspiring her grandson to wear his sister’s dresses, court documents show.

Jonathan McKinsey, the newspaper’s head of engineering for games player experience, was allegedly killed by his elderly in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, on Saturday. They allegedly took turns shooting McKinsey in the parking lot of a park in Dublin.

Chen visited McKinsey and his wife, Candice Jang, to watch their children in 2023, a restraining order filed by McKinsey against Jang said.

Chen noticed McKinsey’s son Wyatt had begun asking to wear his sister Alexis’ dresses, a “phase” he was going through, McKinsey said, according to the records.

She then began allegedly berating him for the behavior, calling the young child a “disgusting queer” and a “pervert.” Chen also allegedly hit McKinsey’s young son in the back of the head when he asked.

When McKinsey begged her to stop, Chen turned her ire to the New York Times employee, who was transgender and transitioned from female to male in 2010, according to the documents.

She then called McKinsey the same names, the restraining order alleged.

“She blamed me for Wyatt wanting to wear his sister’s dresses and told me to get out of ‘her house’ even though we were in the home owned by Candice and I,” McKinsey wrote.

He tried to get his wife to hire outside help to prevent Chen from taking care of their children again, but Jang allegedly refused.

McKinsey also accused his wife of abuse in their relationship, including an episode where she pushed him to try to commit suicide, the documents say.

McKinsey claimed Jang told him he should kill himself because “no one would want to be with someone as f–ked up and transgender like me.”

Jang first filed a restraining order against McKinsey last year, alleging he “threatened to kill me and my parents.”

Alameda County prosecutors also charged him with two counts of misdemeanor child abuse after an incident where he allegedly hit their six-year-old son in the face with an open hand.

Jang also told investigators about a 2018 domestic violence incident, where McKinsey bruised her left arm, the charging documents say.

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

Witnesses say McKinsey’s in-laws Zhang and Chen allegedly riddled him with bullets in the parking lot at Dublin Sports Grounds on Saturday afternoon.

Zhang and Chen were arrested moments later nearby and booked into Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of murder.

According to the booking records, the couple is facing a string of serious charges, including first-degree murder, felony conspiracy, dangerously firing a gun, and child endangerment that could have caused major injury or death.

The California Post reached out to the New York Times for further comment.

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