New York Times gaming engineer gunned down by in-laws in

A parking lot across the street from a police station is about the last place you’d expect to get shot dead. That’s where a New York Times gaming engineer met his end this week, allegedly at the hands of his mother-in-law and father-in-law. The details are still thin, and we should let the case play out in court. But the bare fact already staggers: a man was executed in daylight, steps from where cops sit in their cruisers.

We don’t know what drove the in-laws to this. Maybe a family feud, maybe something else entirely. What we do know is that a family is shattered and two people are behind bars for what looks like a cold-blooded ambush. The left will turn this into another gun control sermon. They always do. But the problem here isn’t the weapon. It’s the rage that builds when people stop talking and start settling scores like this. You can’t regulate away a grudge.

It’s also worth pausing on the location. If a man can be killed in broad daylight opposite a police station, then no one is safe. That’s not a talking point. That’s just the uncomfortable arithmetic of a society that has let chaos creep into ordinary life. We’ll wait for the facts. Meanwhile, the victim must not become a headline that fades by Friday. He deserves better than that. And his coworkers at the Times have every right to ask why the streets they walk to work aren’t as safe as the ones the pundits describe.