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11. Teen Apparently Left Deranged Notes on Obit of Boyfriend She Murdered
Mon Aug 21, 2023, 03:25 PM
Aug 2023

(I saw video of her during trial--apparently zero remorse shown)

Teen Apparently Left Deranged Notes on Obit of Boyfriend She Murdered
Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, was found guilty of deliberately crashing her car at 100mph.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mackenzie-shirilla-appears-to-have-posted-disturbing-comments-on-boyfriends-obit-after-killing-him


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On the day of the crash, police found the car with “severe damage.” Dominic Russo and Flanagan were both pronounced dead at the scene, while Shirilla, who was found unconscious, was hospitalized. During her trial, prosecutors argued that Shirilla and Russo had a toxic relationship and that she had threatened him before the fatal incident—including by threatening to crash her car.

“There is no doubt that this happened because of the relationship with Dominic and the defendant’s intent was clearly to end that, and she took everybody that was in the car with her,” Tim Troup of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday, adding that Flanagan died because he had simply “got in the wrong car seat.”

On Russo’s obituary, other posts made in Shirilla’s name included photographs of them together, including one tagged “Strongsville Prom 2022.” “You are the love of my life you will always be with me and I will always think about you,” read one comment using Shirilla’s name posted on Aug. 6, 2022— a week after the fatal crash. Another on the same day reads: “I love you Dom you are my soulmate I won’t never forget the memories we made together you made me the girl I am today and you were just an amazing bright soul.” It added a desire to “hug you one last time.”

“I miss you nug,” another comment on Aug. 24 reads below a picture appearing to show Shirilla and Russo at Universal Orlando Resort. “I still feel like your just going to walk in the door any second,” the post continues. “I miss your laugh your perfect smile. I feel your energy around me everyday i just wish it was physical. God u are the last person to deserve this you had such a perfect life ahead of you... i wish i told you all this more. Please wait for me.”

The comments, if indeed they were made by Shirilla, paint a radically different picture to that of the callous killer Judge Russo—who is not related to Dominic—described Monday. “She had a mission, and she executed it with precision,” the judge said. “The decision was death.”

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