Ohio teen Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, is found guilty of murdering a friend and another passenger by crashing a car into a warehouse at 100 mph
- Mackenzie Shirilla was 17 when she killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan
- She drove the car with all three into the side of a building at 100 mph
- Prosecutors said she wanted to kill them and herself to escape her turbulent relationship with Russo
- She received life in prison with her first chance at parole in 2038
Ohio teen Mackenzie Shirilla sobbed as she was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend and his friend by driving them into the side of a building at 100 mph in what a judge called a “mission of death” .
Shirilla, now 19, miraculously survived the 2022 crash that took the lives of her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and his 19-year-old friend Davion Flanagan.
All three had smoked marijuana before Mackenzie, then 17, got behind the wheel.
Police and prosecutors argued that she deliberately drove them all to the side of a warehouse in an attempt to kill herself and the two boys because her relationship with Russo was so turbulent.
Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of murder yesterday and sentenced to life in prison with her first chance at parole in 15 years
Shirilla sobbed when she was sentenced. She claimed the crash was an accident
Shirilla’s friend Dominic Russo (left) was killed along with his friend Davion Flanagan (right)
This was all that was left of the car after the fatal accident. Mackenzie was pulled unconscious from the vehicle and was not breathing, but she miraculously recovered
The judge yesterday labeled Shirilla a “literal hell on wheels,” dismissing her claims that the crash was an accident and condemning what she called a “mission of death.”
Surveillance footage of the crash shows her driving calmly and within the speed limit, then accelerating to 100 mph as she approaches a warehouse building.
All three were unconscious and not breathing when they were removed from the car. The two young men died, but Shirilla made a full recovery.
Shirilla’s conviction automatically carries a life sentence eligible for parole after 15 years.
She was subsequently charged with murder, a claim she denied.
At trial, her lawyers tried to argue that she had lost control of the car and that it was an accident.
Prosecutors used surveillance footage of her driving in full control before the crash to refute their argument.
When she was found guilty yesterday, Mackenzie sobbed at the defense table. However, the judge showed her no mercy.
“She had a mission and carried it out with precision.
The decision was death,” said Judge Nancy Margaret Russo of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
Police said she was on a ‘death mission’ and became a ‘literal hell on wheels’ when she accelerated
This was the wall that Mackenzie plowed into at 100 mph