More than a year after Mackenzie Shirilla was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 15 years to life behind bars for killing 20-year-old Dominic Russo and 19-year-old Davion Flanagan in a Strongsville crash, the Eighth District Court of Appeals has upheld her conviction.
It's a case that dates back to Sunday, July 31, 2022, when Strongsville police say a crash happened at 6:15 a.m. near the intersection of Progress and Alameda. Upon their arrival, officers say they located a Toyota Camry “with severe damage and full airbag deployments.”
All three occupants inside the vehicle -- including Shirilla -- were unconscious, not breathing and trapped inside the vehicle. Russo (Shirilla's boyfriend) and Flanagan were both pronounced dead at the scene.
“This was not reckless driving. This was murder," Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo said moments before announcing her verdict in the bench trial on Aug. 14, 2023.
Shirilla, who was 17 years old at the time of the crash, was found guilty of all counts, including four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide.
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