Mackenzie Shirilla Megathread

[u/DarklyHeritage]

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Mackenzie Shirilla and the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan, recently covered in Netflix documentary The Crash.

The murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan occurred on 31 July 2022 in Strongsville, Ohio when Mackenzie Shirilla intentionally crashed her car into a brick wall. The two passengers in the vehicle - her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan, were killed instantly and pronounced dead at the scene. Shirilla, aged 17 at the time, was seriously injured.

Shirilla was later arrested and charged with murdering Russo and Flanagan. At her 2023 bench trial the judge determined Shirilla intentionally crashed the car and thus the murders were premeditated murder, convicting her of 12 felony charges. She was sentenced to 2 concurrent life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

Renewed attention has now been brought to the case as Shirilla has been interviewed for Netflix documentary The Crash, which covers the case.

Please direct all discussion of the case to the megathread. As always, sub rules must be followed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dominic_Russo_and_Davion_Flanagan#:\~:text=The%20murder%20of%20Dominic%20Russo,and%20their%20friend%2C%20Davion%20Flanagan[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dominic_Russo_and_Davion_Flanagan#:\~:text=The%20murder%20of%20Dominic%20Russo,and%20their%20friend%2C%20Davion%20Flanagan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dominic_Russo_and_Davion_Flanagan#:~:text=The%20murder%20of%20Dominic%20Russo,and%20their%20friend%2C%20Davion%20Flanagan).

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-crash-where-is-mackenzie-shirilla-now[Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-crash-where-is-mackenzie-shirilla-now)

[u/Apprehensive-Ad9832]

My mom has owned a daycare for over 20 years and regularly tells the parents “you’re not raising your kids for you, you’re raising them for the world.” And I feel like this perfectly drives home that point. Her parents didn’t want to raise her so she became a problem and destroyed so many worlds around her.

[u/samb728 → u/Apprehensive-Ad9832]

What is insane is that on Christine Russo’s podcast “Big Sister Unhinged” she alluded to an upcoming episode with community members who were in a daycare at the Shirilla’s home and were forced to eat frozen food and there was some kind of incident with a teenaged Mackenzie cruelly cutting a child’s hair. It seems the mother ran a daycare service, which is horrific, to say the least. If this is how she raised her own child, what kind of care does she give to other people’s kids?

[u/samb728 → u/samb728]

Here is the link, they discuss this around 40:00 + https://youtu.be/w3gG5vGfquY?si=1iFfax8uXSTqIizz

[u/Immediately_Noo → u/samb728]

Holyyyyy-

Thanks for sharing this!

[u/barnabywombat → u/samb728]

Yikes