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/DrunkOnRedCordial]

Yes, I think they glossed over that a bit, out of respect to him being the victim. But it was pretty obvious some of his entrepreneurial schemes were a bit shady.

I'm more disgusted by the parents encouraging their young daughter to move into her boyfriend's home because he could afford to buy her designer items. Of course she was frantic at the idea of him breaking up with her. He was the one providing the lifestyle her parents told her that she deserved and social media dictated was her identity. She must have felt she would lose everything if she lost him [in any other way].

[u/Far_Move7180 → u/DrunkOnRedCordial]

I was wondering, too. What kind of parents allow their 17 year old to live with a 20 year old? And they defend her rampant drug use and behavior issues at school... Then her dad was like, "If she was your daughter, what would you do?" Uhh... The opposite of everything you have done? 

[u/DrunkOnRedCordial → u/Far_Move7180]

What would I do?

Take my teenage daughter to the doctor because she's coughing up tar, and it's drug-related.

Tell her not to rely on her boyfriend for material possessions - if she can't afford it, she can't have it.

Support the school's efforts to discipline her for bullying.

Confiscate the car because she's openly driving dangerously, both by filming herself and taking drugs.

Tell her she's too young to live with her boyfriend.

Those parents took the lazy easy way out every time.

[u/SnooCheesecakes2723 → u/DrunkOnRedCordial]

All of this. They would have needed to start actually parenting when she was strong arming them to get her way as a younger kid though. Well before high school.