LOS ANGELES — William Shae McKay could have been in custody Dec. 29 — in more than one case. Instead, the “three strikes” felon, already facing a life sentence, gunned down a Riverside County deputy before dying alongside a freeway in a hail of bullets.
How was it that the 44-year-old violent criminal was free?
By the time McKay encountered Deputy Isaiah Cordero in the traffic stop that would end Cordero’s life, he had been issued $500,000 bail in a third-strike case involving several felonies.
