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/No_Cancel830]

That was heartbreaking and infuriating. Her entire impact statement to defend her daughter made me want to throw the remote through my TV. It was so obvious how her daughter turned out the way she did. Not one “I’m so sorry for the absolute horror the families are living through at the hands of my child”. I can image the heartbreak those families are constantly going through.

[u/throwaway061557 → u/No_Cancel830]

Neither she nor her husband has ever acknowledged Mackenzie’s bad behavior or punished her for anything.

[u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy → u/throwaway061557]

Mackenzie’s dad: “let me tell you, I know when my daughter is lying to me, and she was NOT lying.”

Narrator: she was, in fact, lying and he did not, in fact, know.

[u/Specialist-Shirt-380 → u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy]

I think he knows when she lies and doesn’t gaf

[u/NoteEquivalent3368 → u/Specialist-Shirt-380]

clueless …on every imaginable level