Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender executive at The New York Times, was once pregnant and gave birth to a son who died shortly after birth. According to court documents from December 2025, McKinsey claims his wife Candice Jang's abuse during pregnancy led to his miscarriage later in life. McKinsey also details ongoing physical and emotional abuse by Jang, including an incident where she threw objects at him while he was pregnant in 2014.
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In December 2025, Jonathan McKinsey, a trans executive at the New York Times, filed court documents describing his pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage of a son he conceived more than a decade earlier. According to the filing reviewed by the California Post, McKinsey alleged that his estranged wife, Candice Jang, subjected him to abuse during his pregnancy in 2014, which led to severe stress and ultimately the loss of their child shortly after birth.
McKinsey detailed feeling helpless due to being a pregnant transgender man with limited options for protection from his abusive wife. On September 26, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, Jang's parents, were accused of shooting McKinsey to death in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Ground in the Bay Area. Both suspects are charged with murder and remain incarcerated without bail; they could face life in prison without parole upon conviction.
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The trans New York Times executive who was allegedly killed by his in-laws was once pregnant with a son who died shortly after he was born, according to court documents — in a loss he blamed on his wife.
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In a court filing from December 2025, reviewed by the California Post, Jonathan McKinsey described the pregnancy and alleged abuse he suffered from his estranged wife Candice Jang.
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“I was terrified of Candice hurting me or the baby, but had nowhere to go and limited options, as a pregnant transgender man,” he said, according to a filing.
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McKinsey, 40, was allegedly fatally shot by Candice’s parents Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, who took turns shooting him.
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The incident allegedly happened in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Ground in the Bay Area on Sept. 26.
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Zhang and Chen were charged with murder and remain in jail without bail.
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They’ve yet to be sentenced, but could face life in prison without parole if convicted.
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More than a decade before the alleged killing, McKinsey apparently became pregnant with an embryo that was created from Candice’s IVF treatment.
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McKinsey had at first suggested the couple use his own eggs, but Candice allegedly said she didn’t want to have a child with his “f—ed up genetics”, according to McKinsey’s court statements.
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“While I was pregnant, Candice regularly started fights with me because she was jealous that I was carrying the baby,” McKinsey alleged in his court declaration.
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“She forced me to sleep on the futon in our living room, while she slept in the bed.
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On one occasion, she threw a cup at me and hit me in my stomach.”
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McKinsey said he and Candice eventually moved from Berkeley to San Jose in early 2015 and he started suffering from severe nausea at 22 weeks pregnant.
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“Despite us having hired movers, Candice forced me to move heavy boxes during the move,” he wrote.
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“Once the move was completed, I noticed that I had started bleeding.”
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As he went to the hospital to get things checked, McKinsey claimed Candice kept berating him.
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“While Candice drove me to the emergency room, she screamed at me repeatedly and told me to ‘shut up,’ when I expressed I was in pain,” he said.
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Their son Romeo Preston McKinsey was born, but he only survived for less than an hour, according to court documents.
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“I am confident that being forced to move the heavy boxes triggered my premature labor and ultimately caused the death of our son,” McKinsey said.
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The alleged terror McKinsey faced during his 2015 pregnancy wasn’t the only he said he had horrific encounters with Candice.
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In Aug. 2013, the couple also had an argument involving a frying pan and dead cockroach.
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“…she hit me in the head with a frying pan.
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She threatened to keep hitting me unless I agreed to eat a dead cockroach she had found on the ground,” McKinsey alleged in court documents.
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“Candice then sterilized the cockroach and made me eat the whole thing.”
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