Roger Loftis, MacKay’s best man at his wedding in November 2010, came onstage with two sheepdogs.
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He said that the day before his death, MacKay spent the entire day with his 4-month-old son Cayden and stepdaughter Kaitlyn, whom he recently taught how to ride a bike and tie her shoes.Ĭameras regularly panned to the children and MacKay’s widow, Lynette, sitting in the front row with other family members, including his father, Alan, and mother, Dawn. “He had the laugh of someone who truly enjoyed life.” “Jeremiah made his uniform, his uniform did not make him,” McMahon said.
McMahon also said that MacKay was so much in touch with his Scottish heritage that he was a key player in assimilating bagpipes into the San Bernardino Honor Guard, which he was a part of. Bagpipes could be heard beyond the amphitheater walls.Īs the ceremony began around 11:30 a.m., about 100 bagpipers and drummers filled the black stage as MacKay’s flag-covered coffin circled the venue, followed by his friends, family and a riderless horse. Officers from throughout the state, in blue, green and beige uniforms, joined civilians dressed in black at the San Manuel Amphitheater, nearly filling the 60,000-person venue below the San Bernardino Mountains. Police say Dorner shot a newly engaged Irvine couple and killed a Riverside police officer in an ambush before fleeing into the mountains he died in a furious gunfight with law enforcement officers during which MacKay was shot. 12 when he confronted the fugitive near Big Bear Lake. SAN BERNARDINO – A line of black-and-white cars topped with silent sirens stretched 15 miles down the San Bernardino highway Thursday morning, following the hearse of the sheriff’s deputy authorities say was the last victim of Christopher Dorner.ĭetective Jeremiah MacKay, a 15-year San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy, was shot and killed Feb.
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