Shili Chen Blames Husband for 40-Year-Old Son-in-Law's Murder in Bail Bid
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 31
Shili Chen Blames Husband for 40-Year-Old Son-in-Law's Murder in Bail Bid
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 31
Summary
New bail filings say 77-year-old Shili Chen watched her husband, Shouyong Zhang, fire the fatal shots at Jonathan McKinsey, 40, before she got out of the car and later fired when he was already dead.
Chen's lawyers argue Zhang planned the Sept. 26 killing without telling her and that she acted only because she feared McKinsey would assault her husband, seeking to undercut the prosecution's lying-in-wait theory.
Prosecutors say surveillance video and three witnesses show the couple opened fire "in concert" in a crowded Dublin Sports Grounds parking lot, where children were nearby; both are being held without bail.
Zhang separately seeks pretrial release, with his lawyer calling the shooting an isolated family incident, while police say the couple fled in a black Honda Civic and officers recovered two firearms after a traffic stop.
The killing came amid a bitter divorce and custody fight between McKinsey and the couple's daughter, Candice Jang, with competing domestic-violence claims and a December hearing pending.