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Recording.

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Sixty on Westwood.
I'm gonna turn on Alameda.

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I copy.

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Copy.

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It's a breakdown. Holy crap!

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We're arriving.

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Forty-six on Progress.

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Radio,

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this car is split in two.

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Radio, there's an occupant inside.
Send us some squad now.

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We gotta bust the window out.

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Send us some more units.

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Welcome to the class of 2022
commencement ceremony.

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Today, we share in the celebration
of the journey

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that our children have shared

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that is now culminating in the achievement
of one of their life milestones.

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Oh my God. Times three, guys.

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-Radio, three occupants.
-Three occupants.

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Yeah, all pretty young.

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Davion Markel Flanagan.

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Mackenzie Ford Shirilla.

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Whoo!

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Radio, the driver

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is breathing, unconscious.

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-Her stomach's moving. Look.
-Oh, yeah.

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-What's your name, dear?
-My name is Mackenzie.

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Mackenzie. Okay.

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I have a 17-year-old female, Mackenzie.

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Mackenzie Shirilla.

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-Mackenzie Shirilla.
-Mackenzie Shirilla.

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She walked away. The only one alive.

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It's so unfathomable.

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How could this possibly happen?

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This was no accident.

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She and her boyfriend
appeared to be soulmates.

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The black box tells us
what happened, not why.

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Guess it depends on how you look at it.

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The real question is,
was this a horrific accident

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or was this murder?

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Hey, guys, let's spend the day together.

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Cameras…

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Whoo!

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Flashing

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Cameras

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Flashing…

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It's so crazy, 'cause, like,
we had just graduated high school,

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and this is who I would hang out with
every single day.

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Every single day, I'd wake up and hang out
with a combination of these people.

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There was me,

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Kenzie,

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Davion,

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Dom,

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and my boyfriend, Bubba.

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This was the best friend group
that I've ever had in my life.

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We didn't have any worries in the world.

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I don't need no flash
To know that you're a star, babe

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Whoa

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'Cause when you walk in the room
It's obvious who you are…

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Hey, TikTok, we're gonna start doing
something new on here,

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and it is a food review.

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I was getting a phone call or a text
from Kenzie every day.

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"What are we doing tomorrow?
The next day?"

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"Let's do this. Dom wants to go here.
Davion wants to do this."

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And they all for you…

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If Davion's there, everybody's laughing.
He's the funniest guy. He was just goofy.

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I don't need no…

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And Dom and Kenzie, they're such a duo.

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Whoa oh

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' Cause when you walk in the room…

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They had been together for four years.

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Oh yeah

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Baby, they're all for you

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Baby, they're all for you…

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Dom was a very sweet, loving dude, man.

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Are you just biting me?

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He reminds me of Master Yoda
from Star Wars. He was so wise.

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The bond in the group that we had
was gonna be unstoppable.

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Rosie! Bubba!

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What's up, baby? Hold up

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Like, those are my best friends
that I hang out with every single day.

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And I was just with them.

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And it's so crazy that that split second

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just, like, changed
all of our lives forever.

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Yep. Driver, 17-year-old female,
still breathing.

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Wedged in there.

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-Two are gonna be DOA.
-Okay.

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He's a fucking
Strongsville football player.

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He's a running back.

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-Okay, ten four.
-Yeah.

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Rest in peace, buddy.

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Life Flight ETA for a helicopter
is five to ten minutes.

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This is the worst crash I've ever seen.

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Holy smokes. What's this?

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Was there any alcohol or drugs
in the vehicle?

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-Yeah.
-Yes.

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-What? Drugs?
-Yeah, drugs.

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-What type of drugs?
-Weed and mushrooms.

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-Yeah, marijuana, mushrooms.
-Marijuana and mushrooms.

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-Where's the drugs?
-It's just in the pocket.

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Take 'em out.

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We ain't going anywhere, okay?

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-Careful. She's gonna fall off.
-Ten thirty-one. Gonna go.

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This way. Head this way. Watch your step.

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Confirm that.
The female's flat and collarized.

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She's rambling, not making sense.

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Life Flight's here.

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Recording.

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Is that dad?

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I need to talk to you both.

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-What did they tell you?
-Nothing.

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-She broke her leg.
-She was life-flighted here.

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-Yeah, we know that.
-Yeah.

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-Was she alone?
-No.

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-Who else?
-You wanna sit down.

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-Oh my God.
-Oh dear.

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What way do I say this?

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Progress and Alameda. Car into a building.
Two are deceased in the vehicle.

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Your daughter was driving.

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Who died?

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I don't know…
There's one that we don't know.

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Dom?

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-No. Stop! Let him talk.
-Guys…

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I think it… I think it…
What's the name you said?

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-Dom?
-Dom.

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Uh, might be.

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-Stop. Stop!
-Oh my God.

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What's his relation to…

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-Boyfriend.
-Yeah, then Dom was in the car.

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-Stop.
-Oh my God.

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What?

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-I…
-Are you kidding me?

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Ma'am, it's…

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-What?
-That's where we're at right now.

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Dom is dead? Dom is dead?
Is that what you're saying to me?

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Look at me. Is Dom… Dom's dead?

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I didn't wanna believe what he was saying.
I wanted to wait for somebody to tell me…

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-I was hoping it wasn't him.
-Mm-hmm.

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At that point, I didn't even know
if she was conscious.

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I didn't know
what was wrong with her. I… I…

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She could have been paralyzed
for all I knew. We didn't know anything.

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She's lucky to be alive.

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But I was torn. I had a lot…

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I had some guilt
being happy for my daughter

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and knowing that Dom and Davion passed.

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Dom and her were living together.

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There was talk of getting married.

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He was part of our family.

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Someone my daughter
was planning a life with.

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Recording.

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-What's that?
-Yes.

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-What a fucking nightmare.
-Go ahead and take a seat.

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So, um…

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-Do you know what time it happened at?
-No, we don't.

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Right now, it's so early
in the investigation that we don't know.

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-They fall asleep at the wheel?
-Don't know.

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We don't know that.
We don't know that. Um, so--

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So two kids are dead.

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My son's dead, another kid's dead,
and the girl's in the hospital?

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She's in surgery right now.

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Fuck.

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Oh my gosh.

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I didn't know what to do with myself.

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My son just died,
so I really don't know what's going on.

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Like, you're not thinking clearly,
and I didn't… It took… You're in shock.

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You wake up and your
little brother's gone at 20 years old.

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It's, like, Dom is really gone forever.

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And there's no coming back.

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He texted me at three o'clock
in the morning. "Love you, Dad."

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-He texted you at three o'clock?
-2:53.

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-2:53.
-Okay.

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Shock and sadness
in the Strongsville community tonight

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after a car crash claimed two young lives

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and injured a third
early yesterday morning.

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Investigators say
it appears the car failed to stop

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at the end of Progress Drive,

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went across the lawn, hit a sign,
and then crashed into the building.

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I went to the crash site.

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The way it…
it went straight into the building,

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that didn't make any sense

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'cause there was no skid marks
before the impact.

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Right away, questions were going.

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Were they drunk? Did they fall asleep?
Were they on drugs? I don't know.

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More than 200 tonight attended a vigil

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at the intersection
of Progress and Alameda.

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That's the location of the crash

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that killed former
Strongsville High School students

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20-year-old Dominic Russo
and 19-year-old Davion Flanagan.

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I was Davion's best friend.

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This is Dav.

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He always had a smile on his face.

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We were on the football team together.

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It didn't feel like reality
until I got to the site of the accident,

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and that's when, like, it hit.

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There were so many people there,

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and so many people were asking
so many questions to all of us

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'cause they were like,
"You were with them."

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"What did they take?
You know they were on something."

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They didn't even give us a second
to process what had just happened.

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Flanagan played football

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and was planning on attending school
this fall to become a barber.

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My parents
were just trying to explain, like,

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"Davion was in a car crash."

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"He passed away."

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I started, like, screaming and crying
and, like, you know, getting really upset.

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I was like, "This isn't fair.
This isn't right."

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Me and my sister and Davion
came from a little, uh, tough upbringing.

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We were all adopted from foster care.

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Davion was always the supporter
and bigger older brother.

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He was always there for me.

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No one should ever have to tell
their kids or their wife

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that their son or brother,

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um, had their life taken from them.

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It was… It was brutal.

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The 17-year-old female driver
is listed in a critical condition,

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and police are still investigating
the cause of the crash.

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We really were very much
praying and hoping

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that Mackenzie was gonna be okay.

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All that we know,
it was a car driving into the building.

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But we didn't know why.
We didn't know how.

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I wanna know the truth
of what happened to my son.

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I've worked on easily
over a thousand serious felony cases.

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This is without a doubt

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the most significant case
I ever worked on.

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Strongsville does not have
very much violent crime.

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This is a peaceful place.

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Their police department
wanted a prosecutor

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looking at this case with them.

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It's my goal to do everything I can

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to provide justice for the families

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who have so cruelly had their loved one
taken from them

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and try to figure out
what took place out there.

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When the police arrived, they see
the interior of the car had exploded.

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Mackenzie was still wearing her seatbelt.

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Her head was beneath the dashboard.

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The primary impact
was on Dominic's side of the car.

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Dominic was laying in the front seat,

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and Davion's laying
stacked on top of Dominic.

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First responders did discover

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a small amount of marijuana
in Mackenzie's purse.

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A digital scale.

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Also, eight grams of psilocybin mushrooms
concealed in her clothing.

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That was a significant
piece of information.

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I'm ticking through the potentials
of what could have caused this crash.

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Was it operator error?

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Was it substance abuse?

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Or could it be a much more serious felony?

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We needed to get a full picture
of who Mackenzie Shirilla was.

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What?

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Look at that.

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Me and Kenzie met in middle school.

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Growing up, we jumped from house to house
'cause we lived so close.

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She was like a sister to me.

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She's fun,

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loving,

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an amazing friend.

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She would stick up for you.

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I remember at school,
I was bullied a little bit.

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And Kenzie was like, "Don't talk to her
like that. That's not okay."

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She's a very loyal person.

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When I heard there was a car crash,
I tried to call Kenzie, like, 50 times.

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And not getting a response.

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And it was immediate panic for me.

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Recording.

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The day after the crash,
police visited Mackenzie in the hospital

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to find out, is she capable
of providing any kind of statement?

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She had a broken femur above the knee,

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three broken ribs,
a lacerated liver, lacerated kidney.

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Th-This bone broke, snapped,
and it detached the tricep.

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And both carotid arteries
had damage to 'em from her neck snapping.

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She looked like she'd lost a fight.

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We just couldn't tell her about Dom

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'cause she was just going through so much.

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The police started asking her questions.

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Then I said, "Wait.
I think we need to get a lawyer."

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'Cause you'd said, "Don't say anything
to them without getting a lawyer."

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And he goes, "Okay, we won't ask you
any more questions."

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So then the police attempted
to get access to her cell phone.

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That's when he asked me for the passcode.
So of course we gave it.

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Go ahead. Go search whatever you want.

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In this day and age, your cell phone
contains a treasure trove of evidence.

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We are looking
for evidence of intoxication,

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communication with people.

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Social media posts would give some insight
into the events leading up to the crash.

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And then I got ready
to hang out with my friends again.

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Oh my God, Skims baddie.

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She's got the metallic swimsuit. So cute.

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We actually went in the lake pretty deep
'cause it was, like, so hot.

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In high school is when I met Kenzie.

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We started commenting
on each other's Instagrams

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before we even
talked to each other in person.

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We would, like, comment,
DM back and forth, or Snapchat.

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She'd make cute little TikTok videos
of her trying on outfits.

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She would come to school
with a purse instead of a bag,

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which I thought was really cute.

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I got along with her well.
I'm like, "You're cute."

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She's like, "You're cute."
I'm like, "We get along so well."

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When I met her, I had 200K
on TikTok and on YouTube,

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and she had, like,
a few thousand followers.

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She always wanted to be a model like me,

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so me and Kenzie would hang out
and just go do photo shoots.

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Look at this place.

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I'm with Rosie right now.
We gotta do a photo shoot in this bitch.

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With Kenzie came Dom,
with Dom came Kenzie,

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everywhere they went.

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Dom and Kenzie,
they got together in freshman year.

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He was three years older.

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When we were younger,
it was a bit more like,

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"Hey, you're dating an older guy.
This is a lot."

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But boyfriends weren't really boyfriends
at the time.

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They were very like flings
and "Oh, I wanna flirt and have a crush."

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Okay, who's trying to dress up
and go to the Minion movie?

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'Cause that looks fun.

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We already got two people down.
Yep, me and him.

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So we're ready to go. Who's coming?

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Dom had his own place.

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Kenzie moved in after we graduated.

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Even though she was 17,
we felt she was mature enough to do that.

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I love you, baby puppy.

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They were becoming a little tight couple.
They cooked a lot together.

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Always super healthy.
It was always organic.

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Dom would buy her clothes.

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Oh my God.

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That one looks like
the Skims shit but smaller.

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I got that as a backup.

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-Oh yeah, this looks really cute too.
-Yeah.

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-It looks like it's gonna fit me.
-Super cute.

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He really loved designer stuff
and just name-brand.

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Oh my gosh.

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-Dom, no you didn't.
-What?

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-These are Guccis.
-Okay! Baller.

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The boy wasn't hurting for money, okay?

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I think that helped Mackenzie a little bit
because Mackenzie likes things.

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Kenzie loved Dom with her whole heart.

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I think she was always planning
on getting married to Dom.

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-Okay.
-So cute.

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Recording.

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In the night,
Mackenzie asked, "Where's Dom?"

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And I had to tell her…
I had to tell her that it was him.

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That he… he didn't… he didn't make it.

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So she screamed,
and I said, "I'm so sorry."

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-She goes, "No, it's not. It's not him."
-Yeah.

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"Please go check. Go check"

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And I said, "Mackenzie, it's him,
because if it wasn't him, he'd be here."

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That was devastating to hear her.
The sound. It was gut-wrenching.

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Right after that, she was asking,

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"What about Davion? Is he okay?"

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And I had to say,
"No, he didn't make it either."

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And then she was like, "Oh God."

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We really wanted to talk to Mackenzie

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about what took place inside that car.

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She remembers waking.

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She remembers leaving the house.

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Then she remembers turning on the street.

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-And then that's it.
-That's it.

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She was trying to remember.
Like, she's trying.

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I'm like, "Mackenzie, you can't.
It's just not there."

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I'm not doing okay, like…

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It doesn't feel real. I keep saying this,
but it doesn't feel real.

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I don't know what the fuck happened.

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Thank you for being there for me.

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It just means a lot.
Like, I don't remember anything.

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Like, this is just the worst.

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I can see how someone
could have some amnesia

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from the… the impact of the crash.

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But the timing just seemed really

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perfect.

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I don't understand how your amnesia
just lasted the exact right amount of time

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to not be able to help the police
with their investigation.

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Recording.

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Hey, guys.

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A couple of days after the crash,

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two friends of Davion showed up
at the Strongsville Police Department

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and told them
that they could provide some information.

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We can literally see where Davion has been

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for the past
however long you need to know.

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Okay.

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One of the boys
had an app on his phone called Life360

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that was connected to Davion's phone,

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where you can monitor
each other's location via GPS.

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-I wanna show you.
-Explain it.

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This is when they were going
down on Progress Drive.

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It shows on this app
Davion was on his phone at 5:35.

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-Okay.
-And it says that they crashed at 5:36.

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Before that,
they went to a little gathering or party.

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-Graduation party.
-Yeah.

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They might have been on psychedelics.

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Mm-hmm.

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This was secondhand information

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that there were
drugs of some sort involved

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at graduate parties the night before.

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Maybe they were on the psychedelics
and she hit the gas…

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All right, guys, thank you.
Appreciate you coming in.

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We sent Mackenzie's blood sample
to a lab out of state

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because they do not, at our local lab,

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test for the psilocybin, for the presence
of that in someone's blood.

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But looking at Mackenzie's phone,

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there was evidence
of her tripping on mushrooms.

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And it seemed to be
almost a daily ritual for her

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to smoke marijuana from a bong…

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…with her camera propped up
in her clothing closet.

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There were some photographs
of her using marijuana

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in just the days
or even the day before the crash.

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There was multiple videos of her
smoking marijuana and driving that car.

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I knew. I don't have a problem
with her smoking dope.

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I don't have a problem with me smoking it,
with you smoking it.

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If you're gonna take a drug,
that's the one I believe you should take.

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It's… It's better than alcohol.
It's better than all the other crap.

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She's not shooting up.

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As typical high schoolers do,
we were kind of, like, the stoners.

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It would just be back-to-back fun.

24:43.190 --> 24:45.525
-I cannot.
-Okay. State your names.

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It's a TikTok.
We don't have that much time.

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-I'm Rosie.
-Okay. Hi, my name's Kenzie.

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-How are you feeling?
-How am I feeling?

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Well, I'm always pimpin'.

24:54.075 --> 24:58.079
My name's Bubba. I weigh 245 pounds.

24:58.163 --> 24:59.497
-I'm feeling good.
-Damn!

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I haven't ate a damn thing
at all today though.

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How you guys feeling?

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I'm geeking. This is crazy!

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Davion would say to us,
"All the kids are doing it."

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"They're all smoking weed."

25:13.303 --> 25:19.476
Me and my wife, Jaime, pushed back
on the narrative that weed is innocent.

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"Weed isn't addictive.
Weed's not a gateway drug, Dad."

25:25.398 --> 25:28.777
In high school,
football was Davion's number-one passion.

25:31.613 --> 25:34.157
Davion Flanagan.

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But four games into his senior season,
he tore his ACL and his UCL,

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and he pretty much was told
that his football aspirations

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for college and beyond
was over at this point.

25:47.921 --> 25:50.715
I think that's when he started to hang out
with some different people,

25:51.800 --> 25:55.553
different crowds, started experimenting
with illegal substances.

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He'd come home late, and I would say,

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"Show me your friends,
and I'll show you your future, Davion."

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Oh! Oh shit!

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…roof down for the ride…

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"Please stop."

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Do you want to drive?

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I think he was just being
a selfish teenager at that point,

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like, "Oh, I hate my parents"
type of situation,

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where you don't hate them,
you just don't like to follow rules.

26:33.425 --> 26:40.181
You can absolutely drive yourself insane
thinking about the what-ifs.

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Could we have done something differently?

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If Davion had listened to us,
maybe he never would've been in that car.

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This one over here, that's my son David,

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and he's kissing Dom, which is just…

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It melts my heart.

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Um, you couldn't buy this picture off me
for a million bucks.

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It means the world to me.

27:07.334 --> 27:09.085
He loved his nieces and nephews.

27:10.795 --> 27:14.049
He was there for everything,
every family holiday.

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We're a really close family.

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That's part of the worst part.

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He didn't get to see my kids grow up.

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You know, you're thinking about your son,

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and all of a sudden,
everything leads back to the crash.

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In my head, that's just where it goes.
That's where my mind takes me.

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What happened? What happened in the car?
What happened? You know?

27:46.289 --> 27:48.792
We knew that the night before the crash,

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Mackenzie, Dom, and Davion
went to a party.

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On the way, there were some text messages
between Mackenzie…

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and Rosie Graham.

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I was just texting her
to bring over some weed for the night.

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We were also talking
about doing the mushrooms,

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which is why they brought them
and had them in the car with them.

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Rosie would have been
the most likely source of information

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on what was going on in Mackenzie's mind
leading up to the crash.

28:36.548 --> 28:39.342
The police called to set up an interview,

28:39.843 --> 28:41.970
and I was like, "I'm not doing it."

28:43.388 --> 28:46.599
People always say
the police will try to say crazy things,

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especially if you're alone
and you're a teenager.

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It doesn't seem like we're trying to
figure out what happened in the accident.

28:52.147 --> 28:55.734
It seems like we're trying
to track down the next drug dealers.

28:55.817 --> 29:00.363
You have no idea how hard I tried
to get Rosie Graham to talk to me,

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to cooperate with me.

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But it's good to hear
that she talked to you guys.

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I'm fascinated to hear
what she has to say.

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First of all, it wasn't a party at all.

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Because in my opinion,
and everybody that was there,

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we call that a sleepover.

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And that was just a friend sleepover
that we would normally do.

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I brought, like, a coloring book
and, like, colored pencils.

29:33.980 --> 29:35.982
We were watching YouTube videos.

29:38.109 --> 29:42.113
Me, Dav, and Dom,
we were watching a shark documentary.

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Stupid shit on the TV.

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A couple of times,
we'd go out and smack the bong.

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We were having deep conversations
and just sitting around.

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And we were also talking
about doing the mushrooms.

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But then by the time they got over,
it was, like, 12:00 a.m.,

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and we're all like, "It's too late."

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So no mushrooms?

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Um, yeah, we were all just kind of like,
"It's really late,"

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and we had, like, weed to smoke,
so we just smoked weed.

30:12.185 --> 30:14.145
Kenzie didn't even smoke that night.

30:14.229 --> 30:17.232
She was on a smoke break
'cause she was coughing up black mucus

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or bloody mucus,
something that was really bad.

30:21.319 --> 30:23.655
Kenzie was sleeping by, like, 3:00 a.m.

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All I remember
is Dom just petting her head all night

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and cuddling up to her on the couch,

30:30.078 --> 30:32.497
and she was sleeping,
and he was caressing her hair.

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All of us all had plans that next day
to go out and do stuff.

30:39.546 --> 30:43.049
There was not one argument.
There was not one moment of tension.

30:43.132 --> 30:47.011
There was not one bad vibe
towards anybody.

30:49.222 --> 30:53.184
And then, really early in the morning,
around 5:00, Dom came into the kitchen,

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and I was like, "Are you guys leaving?"

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And it was right before they left,
me and Davion were talking.

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He was supposed to work on my truck
with me the next morning.

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And I offered to take him home.

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It was set
that he was coming home with me.

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And, like, last minute, he goes,

31:10.702 --> 31:13.079
"I wanna shower
and maybe sleep for a little bit."

31:15.874 --> 31:18.501
For some reason, he gave me a hug
and goes, "I love you."

31:18.585 --> 31:19.836
I was like, "Love you too, bro."

31:19.919 --> 31:23.381
Very weird. It was the first time
we said we loved each other for a while.

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At that point, when they left the house,
you have this black hole.

31:35.351 --> 31:39.022
The, uh, lack of knowing
what took place inside that car.

31:43.359 --> 31:45.862
But then
Strongsville Police Department called me

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about some of the video evidence
that they had uncovered.

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I'm Trooper Elliot Rawson.

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I serve as a crash-reconstruction trooper
with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

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We had obtained surveillance camera video

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of the final moments
leading up to the event.

32:19.103 --> 32:21.814
All right, so this is
the first camera vantage point, um,

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from the intersection
of Progress Road at Pearl Road.

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Here, we can see
the Toyota traveling southbound,

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and it begins to make a right turn.

32:37.497 --> 32:40.458
As it traveled west
for nearly a half mile…

32:42.543 --> 32:44.212
there was a slight bend

32:44.295 --> 32:46.714
where the second piece
of video evidence comes from.

32:47.215 --> 32:50.426
The camera was located
on the southern face of this building,

32:50.510 --> 32:51.719
pointing southwest.

32:58.810 --> 33:00.687
Based on my calculations,

33:00.770 --> 33:03.731
the Toyota averaged
approximately 97.8 miles per hour

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through this stretch right here.

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That's beyond unsafe speed
for the roadway and conditions.

33:15.535 --> 33:18.496
At this point,
the Toyota enters the intersection

33:18.579 --> 33:21.708
where it struck the corner
of the commercial building.

33:40.017 --> 33:41.644
My first thoughts…

33:42.395 --> 33:43.980
It was just chilling.

33:46.482 --> 33:52.238
If… If anybody was awake and alert
inside that car,

33:53.197 --> 33:56.576
what a horrific last few seconds

33:57.326 --> 33:58.995
they endured.

33:59.078 --> 34:01.998
It was hard to comprehend that someone

34:02.540 --> 34:05.585
could just drive into a wall
at that kind of speed.

34:07.795 --> 34:13.051
I looked back at the video of Mackenzie
turning from Pearl Road onto Progress.

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It just didn't add up.

34:18.264 --> 34:21.100
It was not someone
who's driving with the music loud,

34:21.184 --> 34:22.935
throwing beer cans out of the car.

34:23.019 --> 34:25.730
This turning was controlled
and deliberate.

34:31.611 --> 34:34.363
And then when we get
the blood toxicology back,

34:35.490 --> 34:38.076
the blood test indicated no alcohol.

34:39.619 --> 34:44.123
They did find THC, the active chemical
contained in marijuana.

34:47.210 --> 34:51.380
But this was not someone
who was unfamiliar with driving

34:51.464 --> 34:53.466
under the effects of marijuana.

34:57.637 --> 35:00.014
But the most significant piece of evidence

35:00.807 --> 35:02.809
was that she has no psilocybin
in her system.

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So this was not
some sort of party gone wrong.

35:09.524 --> 35:13.486
She wasn't high on psilocybin
when she crashed.

35:14.612 --> 35:16.239
That ended that rabbit hole.

35:17.240 --> 35:19.116
Now we know this isn't impaired driving.

35:21.035 --> 35:23.204
What else would help explain this crash?

35:25.248 --> 35:27.291
Was something tampered with?

35:28.042 --> 35:30.545
Or did the car malfunction in some way?

35:31.045 --> 35:34.590
The police did observe
a fuzzy Prada slipper

35:34.674 --> 35:38.553
that appeared to be stuck
to the floorboard

35:38.636 --> 35:41.264
next to the accelerator pedal.

35:42.723 --> 35:44.725
Had that contributed to the crash?

35:46.727 --> 35:50.940
We needed to retain
a forensic auto investigator

35:51.023 --> 35:53.860
to do a complete analysis of that car.

36:01.617 --> 36:04.620
This Strongsville community is devastated.

36:04.704 --> 36:06.998
The cause of that crash is unclear.

36:07.081 --> 36:09.876
Police say speed was one of the factors.

36:09.959 --> 36:12.587
The police would contact us
at least once a week

36:12.670 --> 36:14.213
and give us an update.

36:14.755 --> 36:16.591
But they held a lot back as well

36:17.091 --> 36:19.927
because they needed
to keep their cards close to their vest.

36:21.679 --> 36:27.059
And then I saw an Instagram post
that was sent to Mackenzie from a brand

36:27.143 --> 36:29.312
a day or two after the crash.

36:32.773 --> 36:37.361
"We love this look. Can we use this post
on our website and emails?"

36:37.904 --> 36:40.114
It's answered by Mackenzie's mother,

36:42.033 --> 36:43.534
Natalie Shirilla.

36:43.618 --> 36:45.995
"Thank you for this amazing opportunity."

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"She would love if you would use that."

36:48.372 --> 36:51.792
"She's actually been trying
to contact you guys for PR email."

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"It was a tragic accident."

36:53.961 --> 36:58.507
"This is just as painful for her
as it is for everybody else."

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"Or maybe even a little more painful."

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Then Mackenzie responds.

37:09.268 --> 37:11.520
"Thank you for the comment.
I would love to work with you."

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"I've been emailing you guys a lot.
Such a great opportunity. Thank you."

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The only term that comes to mind
is tone-deaf.

37:19.153 --> 37:24.617
Like, she just doesn't get
how much anguish she's caused.

37:25.618 --> 37:26.953
No one in their right mind

37:27.036 --> 37:29.956
would post about being thrilled
about this opportunity

37:30.039 --> 37:34.126
after they just killed two people
in a horrific accident.

37:34.627 --> 37:38.047
It just felt off.

37:41.884 --> 37:44.553
I got a DM on Instagram from Mackenzie.

37:45.054 --> 37:47.723
She said, basically, "I'm sorry."

37:47.807 --> 37:52.228
"Davion was like a brother to me.
It was all an accident. I didn't mean to."

37:52.311 --> 37:55.314
She wanted to get her peace out of it.

37:55.815 --> 37:58.359
At the end of the day,
I didn't feel like I needed to respond

37:58.442 --> 38:00.027
to someone who killed my brother.

38:04.031 --> 38:06.951
Me and Mackenzie,
we went to the same school,

38:08.494 --> 38:10.955
but we were in a different year.

38:11.455 --> 38:15.251
Dude, why is the lighting in here
fucking terrible? Like, what the fuck?

38:16.419 --> 38:19.422
I already had, like, my opinion on her,

38:19.505 --> 38:22.299
and I'd expressed that
to Davion privately.

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I'm not even cool.

38:23.634 --> 38:27.013
I'm just one of those girls
that can do a lot of drugs and not die.

38:27.638 --> 38:29.807
She gave off this persona and this act

38:29.890 --> 38:32.643
of being, like, high up
and better than everyone else.

38:32.727 --> 38:35.646
I don't like when people
talk about the world,

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and they're like, "We're all gonna be dead
in 60 years anyways."

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Please go fucking kill yourself.
Yep, I said it. Go die, bitch.

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I heard people would steer away from her

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because she got very aggressive

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and could bully people
and talk bad about people.

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The school records showed
one incident after the next

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of disrespect to teachers
and fellow students.

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You just get a general picture of someone

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who does not have
a lot of adult oversight.

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There was an incident.

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They suspended her
for the last day of school.

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I had to get off work and come get her.

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I walked in. I looked at my daughter,
and she's sobbing.

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I go, "Did you do it?"
She looked at me and goes, "No."

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And I know when my daughter lies.

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I go, "Good enough for me. Let's go."
And I walked her out.

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Her parents would offer excuses
for her behavior.

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And typically Mackenzie would walk away
from those negative interactions at school

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with more freedom, less consequences,

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and her actions
being completely excused away.

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Am I a perfect parent? No.

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-Nobody is.
-No one is. No one is.

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-Have I made mistakes with my kids? Sure.
-Sure.

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It's… It's life, you know?

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But she wasn't a bad kid.
She didn't need to be disciplined a lot.

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You know, she… I mean…
The only… Her worst is her mouth.

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If any of you think
that that party situation is my fault,

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you can go fuck yourself
and leave my story.

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Right now. Yeah.

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Because we let
all you underage little fucks

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inside our beautiful home

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just to do illegal things.

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Looking at all of the information
we had from her phone,

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I felt like I started to see
who Mackenzie really was.

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And then we got back the results
from the forensic auto investigator.

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And that expert
determined that the braking,

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the steering,

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the tires,

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the acceleration

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were working properly.

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The car didn't malfunction.

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And in his professional opinion,

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the slipper was stuck to the floorboard
because of the impact.

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The floorboard had actually crumpled
around the slipper.

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So it had no contribution to the crash.

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That it was simply a result of the crash.

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Now we needed the information
off of the event data recorder.

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The EDR,
the electronic data recording system.

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Most people think of it as like
being the black box in the airplane.

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In this case, there's approximately
five seconds of pre-crash data.

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For the entire five seconds,
the accelerator pedal was at 100%.

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There was no taking off
or lightening up on the accelerator pedal.

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It was completely pressed
all the way down.

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Most people would want to slow the vehicle
or stop the vehicle

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to avoid that type of an impact.

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But in this case, there was no braking.

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The data shows that
around three seconds before the impact,

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there was some steering input.

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Right movement, left movement,
and then a hard right movement.

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It shifted from drive into neutral,
back into drive again.

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I think the boys
were trying to save their life.

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I think Dominic and Davion
were yanking on the wheel,

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grabbing at the gear shift,
and it was just too late.

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100% gas pedal.

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No attempt at using the brake.

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The evidence all combines together to show

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this was not an accident.

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Oh-ho!

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Recording.

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Hello.

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Over here.

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The police conducted
numerous interviews of friends

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or people that knew Mackenzie,
Dominic, or Davion.

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-The door open or closed?
-It can stay open.

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One of the witnesses that
came forward was a friend of Dominic's.

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We've got a few questions for you.

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First thing is,
how long have you known Mackenzie?

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Probably when I moved to Strongsville,
so ninth grade.

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So describe the relationship.

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She would be, like…

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She was like, "Oh, I love Dom so much."
This and that.

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I remember one instance

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we were all about to get on the ride,
and Dom was on a phone call.

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She was like, "You get on this ride now."

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But he said, "I can't right now."

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And then we come back,
and she kicked Dom away from us.

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And she was just like,
"I'm about to break up with him."

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She was just saying stuff like that.

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Have you ever heard
Mackenzie threaten Dom?

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We were in this candy shop, and, um…

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This was after they'd gotten over arguing
and everything.

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She was like, "Either buy me something
or shut the fuck up."

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She always threatened
and was disrespectful to Dom in my eyes.

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Why did Dom put up with this? Do you know?

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Um, I've personally been told
that she did voodoo on him.

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I mean, I personally don't believe that,

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but she has told people
that she's put a spell on him

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so that he couldn't break up with her.

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Dom had so much going for himself, like…

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Why does he stick with Kenzie?
He can do so much better, like.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna let the prosecutor know
that you came down to talk to us.

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Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

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I had to try to figure out
what was going on here.

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I reviewed years of text messages
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

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One day they'd be in love with each other.

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The next day,
they would be at odds over something.

46:32.748 --> 46:35.667
In the beginning
of Dom and Kenzie's relationship,

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I told Kenzie, "Hey,
your boyfriend just cheated on you

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with one of our best friends."

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I felt terrible for Kenzie.
I mean, it sucks to be cheated on.

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He never, like,
just can, like, apologize on his own,

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make it up to me on his own,
get me flowers on his own.

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I have to give him that little push.
Actually, no, a giant-ass fucking push.

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I have to shove him off a fucking
60-foot diving fucking board type shit.

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Moving forward in their relationship,
it caused a lot of trust issues.

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Her to be like, "Hey, who are you with?
What are you doing?"

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It was a high-school relationship.
There's gonna be fights.

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There's gonna be up and down moments.

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None of them were ever held seriously.

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I was with them every single day,
and it wasn't daily arguments.

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It wasn't, uh, weekly arguments.

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It wasn't even like
anything crazy like that.

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Mackenzie loved her life a lot,

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and she really liked
what she had going on with Dom.

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Dom was gonna make it. That's for sure.

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He used to trade stocks.
He traded cryptocurrencies.

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He was opening an LLC
to sell all the vape stuff.

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Look how cute you look with your hair.

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Trying to get a clothing line.

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I don't know how I'ma take this seriously.
It all depends if Clay's playing better.

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He had goals, and he was gonna reach 'em.

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Whoo!

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And prior to Dom passing,

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you had said for about a year,
"I need to spend more time with Dominic."

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Right.

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The last couple of years,
we had tried to spend time together,

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but he was always with Kenzie.

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I just don't know why I forgot.
I was just too stressed out about prom.

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You're dumb as fuck.

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-When she came home…
-Crying herself to sleep.

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…she was either in bed,
at the memorial, or at the grave site.

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-At the grave site.
-Every day. Every day.

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Kenzie contacted me
through text, basically,

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and then face-to-face also.

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She said she was sorry. Yeah.

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I felt bad for her. I just kept thinking,

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"She killed the love of her life
and a friend."

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I felt terrible for her.

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I said, "Kenzie, it's okay.
You gotta try to get through it."

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It is what we were all trying to do,
and I was trying to be helpful to her too.

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It might not work for me.
It does sometimes, but…

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-Anything.
-Okay, Dom, are you here?

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Look. I'm not moving my arm. That's a yes.

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Do you have a message for Kenzie?

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L.

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O.

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V.

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Love.

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I miss him so much.

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I love you too, Dominic.

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We were also getting heat from the family
who didn't think it was an accident,

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not to talk to her.

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My ex-wife, Dominic's mother,
wouldn't talk to her.

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You really can't blame her, you know.

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We did not know things that they knew.

50:16.930 --> 50:18.181
Recording.

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In September of 2022,

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Dominic's brother Angelo
met with detectives.

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Dominic and Angelo were really close.

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They lived next door to each other,
so Angelo's seen a lot more than we did.

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So mostly what I'm interested in

50:41.747 --> 50:45.250
is the relationship
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

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Dom tried to break up with her
multiple times, even in July.

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It kept not working out, whatever.
They kept making back up.

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Dom would have to call Kenzie's parents,
call her mom and stuff,

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and say, "You need to come
get Kenzie outta here."

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"She's refusing to leave my house.
She's being crazy."

51:04.311 --> 51:06.938
Dominic's brother told police
he was convinced

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that from conversations
he had with Dominic,

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that Dominic was leaving Mackenzie.

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For me, you know, there's
two types of love that you give somebody.

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It's like, "I love that person
unconditionally."

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And there's a type of love
that's selfish and restricted

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and "I want them all to myself."

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And that was Kenzie with Dom.

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Kenzie's, like, she's let us know

51:32.756 --> 51:35.801
she will never let go of Dom,

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and if she has to let go of Dom,
she will not go on living herself.

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Give me my shit, dude. G… give me my shit.

51:44.226 --> 51:47.187
-Yeah, we have problems.
-Why are you trying to torment me?

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-We have problems.
-You're trying to torment me.

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This was clearly a toxic relationship

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on a crash course for… for termination
one way or another.

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It's difficult to prove these cases
without providing some sort of motive.

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Sometimes we're left
with only what happened,

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and we cannot tell why it happened.

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But two weeks before the crash,

52:34.025 --> 52:37.988
Dominic's mother, Christine Russo,
received a telephone call from her son,

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and he told her that Mackenzie
was driving erratically and dangerously,

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and that he needed help.

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So she sent her friend Christopher Martin

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to hunt down, on the highway, Dominic.

52:58.091 --> 53:00.051
Recording.

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-Chris, thanks for coming down.
-Not a problem.

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I just wanna ask you
about the incident that happened

53:07.100 --> 53:09.769
before the fatal crash.

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Um, Dominic called, and, uh,

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he was upset,

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and, uh, he was like,
"I'm driving in a car with her,

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and I don't wanna be around her anymore.
I'm done."

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So I get on the highway.

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And I call him. I say, "Where are you at?"

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She was like, "I'll crash this car."
I'm like, "Dude, what do you mean?"

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Can you clarify again
what you heard her say over the phone?

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-She said she'll crash this car.
-You heard her?

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-Yes.
-Okay.

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So we had a witness
who had heard her say those words.

53:42.135 --> 53:44.721
Mackenzie had threatened
to crash a car with Dominic

53:44.804 --> 53:46.181
two weeks before she did.

53:46.264 --> 53:49.935
In criminal cases,
we call that prior calculation.

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For three months, we had heard,

54:04.032 --> 54:06.493
"We have evidence.
We have evidence. We have evidence."

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"So when are you gonna arrest her?"

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"If you have evidence,
when is this gonna take place?"

54:10.789 --> 54:14.417
"When is the wheels of justice
finally gonna start to turn?"

54:16.586 --> 54:20.757
The evidence that we had
in this case was compelling.

54:22.759 --> 54:24.177
100% gas pedal.

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No attempt at using the brake.
The car didn't fail.

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She wasn't on some kind
of mind-altering substance.

54:33.937 --> 54:38.483
Mackenzie and Dominic had an incredibly
toxic and failing relationship.

54:39.567 --> 54:44.322
We were left
with no reasonable alternative

54:44.406 --> 54:47.909
but that she did it on purpose, because
that's what all the evidence indicated.

54:58.169 --> 55:00.672
Mackenzie was going to physical therapy.

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After we left that appointment,
I had gotten pulled over.

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I'll go back to her.

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Hi, Mackenzie.

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Don't touch my phone!

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You're under arrest.
We have a warrant for your arrest.

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Why? Wait, we have a lawyer.
I have to call my lawyer.

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I don't know
why they needed nine or ten cars

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to roll up on an 18, 17-year-old girl.

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Prosecution needed a show,
and they wanted to put on a pageant.

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-Where is she?
-Right back there, pal.

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Hi, Mackenzie. Step out for me.

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I'm Detective Hazou.

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I'm the one
who's been investigating the crash.

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You're under arrest
for aggravated murder times two.

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-Murder? What? What?!
-I was…

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Yeah, we were just… It was shock.

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Breaking news alert.

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An arrest in a deadly car crash involving
two Strongsville High School grads.

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We've learned now
18-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla

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has been charged with two counts
of aggravated murder.

56:22.921 --> 56:25.423
Taking that news in,
you're stunned for a while.

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You can't say or do anything.

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-I was shocked when she was arrested.
-Yeah.

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I was like, "What? W… why?
Was it the drugs?"

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No, they think she actually murdered him.

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'Cause all along,
we wanted it to be an accident.

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We didn't want someone
to intentionally murder our son.

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The day she got arrested,
everyone was chanting.

56:48.321 --> 56:51.116
Everyone was like,
"Oh, she's gone! She's arrested."

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I didn't think
she would get arrested at all for this.

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That's the last thing I'm thinking about.

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I'm thinking, "Our friends are dead.
How are we gonna recover from this?"

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You guys are acting like
this is Jeffrey Dahmer or someone.

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Someone that's out here,
like, calculating these murders

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and calculating these things.
No, that's not who she was.

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Could you be careful taking this one off
so it doesn't break the bracelet?

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-You got it.
-Thank you.

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I've seen so many people be like,
"This dramatic girl,

57:26.401 --> 57:29.195
she's going to prison
worrying about her bracelets."

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I don't wanna hurt you.

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But all of her bracelets
are, like, Dom bracelets.

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She just didn't wanna break
the things that Dom had given her.

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It's, like, the only…
The last thing that she has. She…

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She was so sad about it all.

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Here you go. Watch your head going in.

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This way.

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Okay, I'm gonna take your handcuffs off.

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-I need all the jewelry to come off, okay?
-Okay.

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I can't wear any of it?

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No. I need you to take it off
while you're in the jail right now.

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As soon as we're done,
you'll be able to make a call.

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We have to wait
for the detective to come back.

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Just have a seat for us.

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So could you tell me why you
want to give this interview, Mackenzie?

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I've never spoke before,
and I never told my side of the story.

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I understand there's many different sides
to the story and different perspectives,

59:20.098 --> 59:22.976
but I just wanna say my truth, and

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I just know myself,
and I know I'm not… a monster.

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We were just two kids
messing with each other.

59:37.657 --> 59:42.078
And then, as the years went on
and we stayed together and grew closer,

59:42.578 --> 59:44.831
we would have probably
been married by now.

59:47.709 --> 59:49.877
He was just so protective
and loving over me.

59:49.961 --> 59:53.506
I wanted to just heal him,
and he wanted to heal me.

59:54.340 --> 59:57.260
We were partners.
We just took care of each other.

59:58.094 --> 01:00:02.932
I mean, we argued, we got back together.
We broke up, we got back together.

01:00:03.016 --> 01:00:06.227
It was… It was rocky, but it was good.

01:00:06.311 --> 01:00:07.437
It was just…

01:00:07.937 --> 01:00:09.606
We were in love. Young love.

01:00:10.565 --> 01:00:14.611
Did you ever feel,
in your arguments with Dom,

01:00:14.694 --> 01:00:17.447
rage that you couldn't control?

01:00:18.364 --> 01:00:19.782
No, it was never like that.

01:00:19.866 --> 01:00:21.784
It was always just like more, I was…

01:00:21.868 --> 01:00:23.286
When we'd argue, I'd get sad

01:00:23.369 --> 01:00:26.414
because he didn't really have
good communication skills,

01:00:26.497 --> 01:00:31.044
and we would be cool later that day
or a couple of hours later,

01:00:31.127 --> 01:00:34.422
and we would be watching movies
on the couch, eating popcorn.

01:00:38.551 --> 01:00:41.137
Davion, he was more of Dom's friend.

01:00:41.638 --> 01:00:45.725
That summer, he came to live with me
and Dom for a week or two,

01:00:45.808 --> 01:00:49.395
and during those couple of weeks,
I was growing really close to Davion.

01:00:49.479 --> 01:00:53.066
He was just full of life.
He was a good person.

01:00:58.821 --> 01:01:03.368
What do you remember
from the morning of July 31st?

01:01:06.120 --> 01:01:07.747
It was 5:00 in the morning,

01:01:07.830 --> 01:01:13.127
and we decided to head back
to Dom's house, and…

01:01:14.671 --> 01:01:16.506
I remember turning on the street,

01:01:16.589 --> 01:01:21.761
and then I'm waking up in the hospital
the next day, and I don't…

01:01:23.429 --> 01:01:25.390
Then my whole life is shattered.

01:01:26.516 --> 01:01:30.395
People have said that it's
convenient that that's all you remember.

01:01:30.478 --> 01:01:31.938
What would you say to that?

01:01:32.939 --> 01:01:36.067
The whole morning
is just, like, nothing, and I…

01:01:36.150 --> 01:01:37.819
It sounds crazy, but I…

01:01:38.319 --> 01:01:42.448
Like, I can't… I'm not gonna, like, lie
just because people wanna hear a story.

01:01:42.532 --> 01:01:45.993
I have no recollection of that morning.

01:01:47.620 --> 01:01:51.040
I'm not saying I'm… innocent.

01:01:51.124 --> 01:01:53.876
I was a driver of a tragedy.

01:01:54.377 --> 01:01:55.795
But I'm not a murderer.

01:02:12.270 --> 01:02:14.605
The trial for a Strongsville teen charged

01:02:14.689 --> 01:02:15.982
with murder in a deadly crash

01:02:16.065 --> 01:02:17.650
is going on today.

01:02:17.734 --> 01:02:22.113
The accident happened just days
before Mackenzie Shirilla's 18th birthday.

01:02:22.196 --> 01:02:25.032
Shirilla is now facing
murder, felonious assault,

01:02:25.116 --> 01:02:27.785
and aggravated vehicular homicide charges.

01:02:28.286 --> 01:02:30.079
Good luck proving it. There's no…

01:02:30.163 --> 01:02:31.330
-What proof?
-Yeah.

01:02:31.414 --> 01:02:34.083
What proof… What proof do they have
to any of this?

01:02:35.626 --> 01:02:38.754
In Ohio, a defendant chooses

01:02:38.838 --> 01:02:41.883
whether to have a jury trial
or a bench trial.

01:02:41.966 --> 01:02:45.261
A bench trial is tried just to the judge.

01:02:46.012 --> 01:02:49.348
Mackenzie Shirilla
opted for a bench trial.

01:02:50.641 --> 01:02:55.897
We were gonna get our day in court
but we absolutely were in fear and terror

01:02:55.980 --> 01:02:58.524
that we would not get earthly justice
for our son.

01:03:00.985 --> 01:03:04.447
We went to the first hearing
and sat with their family.

01:03:04.947 --> 01:03:05.907
Yep.

01:03:06.449 --> 01:03:08.034
Sat with the Shirillas?

01:03:08.117 --> 01:03:09.619
Mm-hmm.

01:03:11.412 --> 01:03:15.374
We still thought she had been drinking
or there were drugs involved.

01:03:16.042 --> 01:03:19.378
You know, they were kids.
Accidents happen all the time like that.

01:03:19.462 --> 01:03:21.214
You never in a million years think

01:03:22.215 --> 01:03:24.383
this girl killed your brother.

01:03:24.967 --> 01:03:26.135
You just don't think that way.

01:03:29.806 --> 01:03:35.144
All of the records will show,
from when the police first responded,

01:03:35.228 --> 01:03:39.273
she had no recollection of the events,

01:03:39.357 --> 01:03:43.528
and that is consistent
with what happens many times in accidents.

01:03:44.487 --> 01:03:50.618
My attorney was very reassuring
of there being no evidence

01:03:50.701 --> 01:03:54.622
and that anyone can see
that there was no intent.

01:03:54.705 --> 01:04:00.461
How can you come to any conclusion
other than, if anything, she's reckless?

01:04:02.046 --> 01:04:05.299
Your Honor, at issue
in this case, primarily,

01:04:05.383 --> 01:04:08.970
is the defendant's state of mind
at the time of the fatal crash.

01:04:09.554 --> 01:04:11.639
The evidence in this case is clear.

01:04:12.223 --> 01:04:14.141
She drove the car into the wall.

01:04:14.225 --> 01:04:17.019
She made up her mind,
and she never went back.

01:04:19.105 --> 01:04:21.065
The prosecutor would alert us

01:04:21.148 --> 01:04:23.192
to what they were gonna show
in the courtroom.

01:04:23.693 --> 01:04:27.071
This is two-tenths of a mile
from the ultimate crash site.

01:04:27.154 --> 01:04:29.699
We saw the video for the first time.

01:04:31.492 --> 01:04:33.452
You will hear the Camry coming

01:04:33.536 --> 01:04:36.497
before you see
the last few seconds before impact.

01:04:37.123 --> 01:04:39.250
-Oh my gosh.
-It was torture.

01:04:39.333 --> 01:04:41.752
And you kept saying
it was like a bomb went off.

01:04:41.836 --> 01:04:44.255
-Yeah, it was like a torpedo.
-A missile.

01:04:51.554 --> 01:04:52.930
-Brutal.
-Mm-hmm.

01:04:53.014 --> 01:04:54.015
Brutal.

01:04:54.724 --> 01:04:57.184
That's embedded.
You never get rid of that.

01:04:58.811 --> 01:05:03.190
There was a pause, and my wife, Jaime,

01:05:03.858 --> 01:05:05.693
went into the bathroom and threw up.

01:05:06.569 --> 01:05:12.116
100% acceleration
through the entire final five seconds.

01:05:14.869 --> 01:05:19.081
No service brake was deployed
during that final five seconds.

01:05:19.582 --> 01:05:22.293
-What other explanation do you have?
-100 miles an hour.

01:05:22.376 --> 01:05:25.254
100% acceleration. Never hit a brake.

01:05:25.338 --> 01:05:28.341
It was a big slap in the face,
thinking we're there for her

01:05:28.424 --> 01:05:32.303
'cause we feel bad for her too,
and then it's all a lie.

01:05:35.765 --> 01:05:38.100
It's day two
in the trial of the Strongsville teen

01:05:38.184 --> 01:05:40.895
charged with murder in a deadly crash.

01:05:42.146 --> 01:05:44.357
When I first got this case

01:05:45.358 --> 01:05:47.318
and saw that the charge was murder,

01:05:47.902 --> 01:05:52.323
I thought to myself,
"Boy, if she's driving the car,

01:05:52.406 --> 01:05:56.327
and it was her purpose
to kill these people,

01:05:56.410 --> 01:05:58.621
she must have wanted to kill herself too."

01:06:01.749 --> 01:06:04.710
In fact, we know
that she was not suicidal.

01:06:05.628 --> 01:06:09.173
I would never, ever see her
purposely wanting to hurt herself.

01:06:09.256 --> 01:06:11.550
Say that is,
and she's so sad, like mentally,

01:06:11.634 --> 01:06:13.719
I… I don't think that's the way to do it.

01:06:14.637 --> 01:06:16.764
Kenzie loves herself a lot.

01:06:16.847 --> 01:06:19.975
She wouldn't even have a McChicken
with me at McDonald's

01:06:20.059 --> 01:06:22.144
because she cared so much
about her own health.

01:06:22.228 --> 01:06:24.897
I don't feel like somebody like that,

01:06:24.981 --> 01:06:28.109
who's caring so much about their body
and so much about

01:06:29.110 --> 01:06:31.195
themselves and how they're doing,

01:06:31.278 --> 01:06:32.863
would be suicidal.

01:06:33.948 --> 01:06:35.324
Her birthday was coming up.

01:06:35.408 --> 01:06:39.203
She had an expensive designer outfit
ready to wear.

01:06:40.538 --> 01:06:43.165
She had presents ready,
wrapped up from Dom,

01:06:43.249 --> 01:06:44.959
that she still has never opened.

01:06:45.751 --> 01:06:48.921
Nothing makes sense. It really doesn't.

01:06:49.588 --> 01:06:53.676
Mr. McDonnell brought up the issue
of her trying to kill herself.

01:06:53.759 --> 01:06:55.594
How could anybody do that?

01:06:55.678 --> 01:07:00.391
Everybody that's heard this evidence
can't figure out

01:07:00.474 --> 01:07:02.685
how could anybody do that.

01:07:02.768 --> 01:07:05.813
We don't have to prove
that she was suicidal,

01:07:05.896 --> 01:07:08.107
but she put that car into the wall,

01:07:08.190 --> 01:07:10.484
and the results were as foreseeable

01:07:10.568 --> 01:07:13.446
as if she drove that car
off of the Grand Canyon.

01:07:14.196 --> 01:07:16.157
Is it just kids being kids?

01:07:16.240 --> 01:07:18.492
Is it Dominic grabbing the steering wheel?

01:07:19.285 --> 01:07:20.995
Those are all possibilities.

01:07:21.996 --> 01:07:25.583
What do you think happened
to cause the crash?

01:07:26.375 --> 01:07:28.544
Through all the evidence
that has been presented,

01:07:28.627 --> 01:07:32.840
the most logical speculation
seems to be a medical emergency.

01:07:34.467 --> 01:07:36.427
I always tell everybody that she has POTS.

01:07:37.678 --> 01:07:41.223
POTS stands for postural orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome.

01:07:41.724 --> 01:07:44.643
It's a blood pressure disorder.

01:07:44.727 --> 01:07:49.523
You can either get dizzy, lightheadedness,
you can black out.

01:07:49.607 --> 01:07:52.485
With POTS, you just black out.

01:07:52.568 --> 01:07:54.320
It can happen very fast.

01:07:54.403 --> 01:07:57.656
If I move a certain way,
it just comes out of nowhere.

01:07:57.740 --> 01:08:00.910
I could just be sitting like this,
and it could hit me.

01:08:03.078 --> 01:08:05.748
You can move the microphone.
It goes side to side.

01:08:05.831 --> 01:08:06.832
Okay.

01:08:13.964 --> 01:08:16.842
Can you state your name
and spell your last name for the record?

01:08:16.926 --> 01:08:19.929
Natalie Shirilla, S-H-I-R-I-L-L-A.

01:08:20.012 --> 01:08:23.974
When was Mackenzie diagnosed with POTS?

01:08:24.058 --> 01:08:25.226
2017.

01:08:25.309 --> 01:08:28.229
And so you were aware
of these POTS incidents,

01:08:28.312 --> 01:08:33.484
yet you still went to the BMV and said,
"Give my daughter a… a driver's license."

01:08:33.567 --> 01:08:34.401
Yes.

01:08:34.485 --> 01:08:36.028
But as a mom,

01:08:36.529 --> 01:08:39.573
this thing is so serious to you, correct?

01:08:40.074 --> 01:08:40.908
It can be.

01:08:40.991 --> 01:08:45.746
You never told her not to drive the car
because of this POTS diagnosis?

01:08:45.830 --> 01:08:47.540
She's been able to manage it.

01:08:47.623 --> 01:08:50.126
You're here to tell us
that this was the reason

01:08:50.209 --> 01:08:52.294
that she crashed the car
into the PLIDCO building.

01:08:52.378 --> 01:08:54.380
Isn't that the…
Isn't that the bottom line?

01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:56.090
It… It could be.

01:08:56.173 --> 01:08:57.967
-Could it be?
-It could be.

01:08:59.552 --> 01:09:02.263
-No further questions, Your Honor.
-Redirect.

01:09:02.888 --> 01:09:04.431
-That's it?
-Yep.

01:09:05.432 --> 01:09:08.269
If that was an obvious element of defense,

01:09:08.894 --> 01:09:14.817
we were never provided with a opinion
from a medical person

01:09:15.526 --> 01:09:17.403
stating that Mackenzie had suffered

01:09:17.486 --> 01:09:20.865
some kind of POTS incident
that caused this.

01:09:21.365 --> 01:09:24.827
Um… And I think that's because

01:09:25.536 --> 01:09:26.829
that's not what happened.

01:09:28.581 --> 01:09:30.374
It's physically impossible.

01:09:30.457 --> 01:09:33.794
If she passed out, then her foot
would have eased off the gas.

01:09:33.878 --> 01:09:36.839
-Wouldn't have stuck down like that.
-It makes no sense whatsoever.

01:09:38.924 --> 01:09:42.636
Mackenzie drove that car down Progress,

01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.806
going up to 100 miles an hour.

01:09:46.307 --> 01:09:51.562
This would have taken intense engagement
with the steering and controls of that car

01:09:51.645 --> 01:09:54.356
just because of the nature
of the turns on the road.

01:09:54.857 --> 01:09:58.152
There's an S-curve,
and it goes up, and then it goes down.

01:09:59.612 --> 01:10:03.240
That is not a piece of road
that someone could navigate

01:10:03.324 --> 01:10:06.577
at 100 miles an hour while blacked out.

01:10:11.540 --> 01:10:16.754
How does a medical emergency
account for the control of the car?

01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:23.844
I'm unsure. I have… 'Cause I have
no recollection of that morning.

01:10:23.928 --> 01:10:26.430
But I know
nothing about it was intentional

01:10:26.513 --> 01:10:28.182
'cause that's not in my character.

01:10:31.268 --> 01:10:32.937
Please state your full name.

01:10:33.020 --> 01:10:35.439
I'm Christine Russo. I'm Dominic's mother.

01:10:35.522 --> 01:10:41.612
Did you, at any point, um,
provide the Strongsville Police Department

01:10:41.695 --> 01:10:44.865
with some videos that you had obtained

01:10:44.949 --> 01:10:48.410
that had conversations
between Mackenzie and Dominic?

01:10:48.494 --> 01:10:49.328
Yes.

01:10:49.411 --> 01:10:53.249
And how did you
come into possession of those videos?

01:10:53.332 --> 01:10:58.837
They were recorded on a phone
that happened to be in my son's home.

01:11:00.172 --> 01:11:04.843
Christine Russo had brought
to the investigators' attention

01:11:04.927 --> 01:11:10.140
some recordings made by Dominic
just a matter of days before the crash.

01:11:11.433 --> 01:11:13.602
Dom, open the door.

01:11:14.853 --> 01:11:17.314
I can't open the door.
I can't sit here and fight.

01:11:17.398 --> 01:11:20.651
We gotta go to dinner
to see my grandparents. I can't…

01:11:20.734 --> 01:11:23.237
You're not going to dinner
if you don't open the door.

01:11:23.320 --> 01:11:24.738
I'ma let you know that now.

01:11:24.822 --> 01:11:26.740
You're gonna come open this door right now

01:11:26.824 --> 01:11:29.451
or there's gonna be
a serious fucking problem.

01:11:31.161 --> 01:11:35.040
Okay, ready? I'm gonna count to ten.
The door's gonna open, okay?

01:11:35.124 --> 01:11:37.501
You're gonna open the door
and stop hiding behind the door

01:11:37.584 --> 01:11:39.420
like a little fucking bitch.

01:11:39.503 --> 01:11:42.006
Step away from the door.
Maybe I can come outside and talk.

01:11:42.089 --> 01:11:43.757
No, we're not fighting outside.

01:11:43.841 --> 01:11:46.468
You're gonna open the door right now.

01:11:46.552 --> 01:11:48.971
-Why aren't we fighting outside?
-One minute.

01:11:49.054 --> 01:11:51.390
Now my mom's trying to call me. I gotta--

01:11:51.473 --> 01:11:53.851
No. If you hang up on me,
we're done. I'm leaving.

01:11:55.019 --> 01:11:57.938
-Kenzie, there's nothing I can do.
-There is.

01:11:58.022 --> 01:11:59.189
Stop being a little bitch.

01:11:59.273 --> 01:12:01.108
I can't let you in with how you're acting.

01:12:01.191 --> 01:12:02.401
It's as simple as that.

01:12:02.484 --> 01:12:04.778
Okay, I'm gonna
break into your house, then.

01:12:05.529 --> 01:12:07.948
Dude, what the hell? What the actual fuck?

01:12:09.325 --> 01:12:12.911
You don't let me in the house
that I sleep in every night, we are done.

01:12:16.957 --> 01:12:19.251
-I was disgusted, and I really think that…
-Yeah.

01:12:19.335 --> 01:12:20.919
It just really made me mad.

01:12:21.628 --> 01:12:25.132
Yeah, I felt sorry for Dominic.
I can't believe he didn't say anything.

01:12:26.175 --> 01:12:28.135
Had you ever seen that side to her?

01:12:28.218 --> 01:12:29.678
-No.
-Nope.

01:12:30.763 --> 01:12:33.265
Didn't see that side of her at all.

01:12:34.183 --> 01:12:36.810
How would you describe
Dominic's tone on these videos?

01:12:36.894 --> 01:12:38.020
Very calm.

01:12:38.103 --> 01:12:41.398
How would you describe
the defendant's tone on these videos?

01:12:41.482 --> 01:12:42.649
Irate and angry.

01:12:43.609 --> 01:12:45.402
Thank you. I have no further questions.

01:12:46.653 --> 01:12:49.782
You could sense a mood in the courtroom.

01:12:49.865 --> 01:12:52.451
It was as if people
were coming to the realization

01:12:52.951 --> 01:12:55.496
that she could actually do it.

01:12:55.579 --> 01:12:57.623
She was volatile enough

01:12:58.123 --> 01:13:00.876
and angry enough

01:13:01.376 --> 01:13:04.463
and desperate enough…
to do just about anything.

01:13:06.799 --> 01:13:11.011
When that came out,
there was no hiding who you were anymore.

01:13:11.887 --> 01:13:14.098
It just all painted a huge picture.

01:13:15.933 --> 01:13:19.144
She actually intentionally murdered him.

01:13:23.232 --> 01:13:26.443
This catastrophe took place

01:13:26.527 --> 01:13:30.280
at the conclusion
of a rocky and tumultuous relationship

01:13:30.364 --> 01:13:34.159
between Mackenzie Shirilla
and Dominic Russo.

01:13:34.868 --> 01:13:39.415
Whatever happened, Judge,
was because of that relationship.

01:13:39.498 --> 01:13:42.251
That is why this took place.

01:13:42.751 --> 01:13:44.461
And what about Davion?

01:13:45.796 --> 01:13:47.714
He's just cargo in the backseat.

01:13:48.215 --> 01:13:50.634
If you knew
you were gonna kill your boyfriend,

01:13:50.717 --> 01:13:52.594
what did Davion have to do with that?

01:13:53.095 --> 01:13:54.596
He had nothing to do with that.

01:13:54.680 --> 01:13:57.391
You could have let him out,
let him walk away.

01:13:57.474 --> 01:14:01.061
She treated him with the utmost disregard.

01:14:02.187 --> 01:14:05.524
We trust the court, and we wait
for your verdict. Thank you, Your Honor.

01:14:05.607 --> 01:14:07.734
We ask you to find her guilty
on all counts.

01:14:16.410 --> 01:14:19.913
There is nothing
that I can do or say today

01:14:19.997 --> 01:14:23.208
that will return these two young men
to their families.

01:14:25.377 --> 01:14:29.381
This trial is the culmination
of decisions made by one person.

01:14:31.049 --> 01:14:32.426
The crash video.

01:14:33.385 --> 01:14:37.723
The video clearly shows
purpose and intent of the defendant.

01:14:38.223 --> 01:14:41.518
She chose a course of death
and destruction that day.

01:14:42.019 --> 01:14:46.773
She morphs from a responsible driver
to literal hell on wheels

01:14:46.857 --> 01:14:49.109
as she makes her way down the street.

01:14:50.194 --> 01:14:52.196
Court renders the following verdicts.

01:14:52.696 --> 01:14:53.780
Count one.

01:14:54.364 --> 01:14:57.618
The court, having had count one tried
to a pursuant to waiver,

01:14:57.701 --> 01:14:59.786
finds the defendant Mackenzie Shirilla

01:14:59.870 --> 01:15:02.706
guilty of murder, to wit, Dominic Russo,

01:15:02.789 --> 01:15:07.419
in violation of Ohio Revised Code
section 2903.02a,

01:15:07.503 --> 01:15:09.338
is charged with count one.

01:15:09.421 --> 01:15:10.714
Count two.

01:15:10.797 --> 01:15:14.676
The court, having had count two tried
to a pursuant to waiver,

01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:17.721
finds the defendant Mackenzie Shirilla
guilty of murder,

01:15:17.804 --> 01:15:19.306
to wit, Davion Flanagan,

01:15:19.389 --> 01:15:24.519
in violation of Ohio Revised Code
Section 2903.02a,

01:15:24.603 --> 01:15:26.688
is charged with count two
of the indictment.

01:15:28.857 --> 01:15:30.526
-Mom?
-Hey, hey.

01:15:30.609 --> 01:15:32.819
-Oh my goodness.
-I know, Kenzie.

01:15:32.903 --> 01:15:35.531
I didn't think
that was gonna happen. She was just like…

01:15:35.614 --> 01:15:38.158
She just made it seem
like I was just a murderer.

01:15:38.242 --> 01:15:39.826
I know. I know, sweetie.

01:15:40.327 --> 01:15:41.578
I was, like, shocked.

01:15:42.204 --> 01:15:44.039
I genuinely do not think

01:15:44.122 --> 01:15:47.417
that this could have been on purpose,
intentional, or planned.

01:15:47.501 --> 01:15:49.711
Like, it doesn't make sense to me.

01:15:50.712 --> 01:15:52.130
We were all friends.

01:15:55.926 --> 01:15:59.972
A local case has drawn
national and international attention.

01:16:00.055 --> 01:16:04.851
Sentencing will take place tomorrow
for 19-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla.

01:16:04.935 --> 01:16:07.771
Mackenzie Shirilla could face
up to life in prison.

01:16:08.772 --> 01:16:11.358
How much time do you think I'm gonna get?

01:16:12.109 --> 01:16:14.027
I'm sure they're gonna go with the max.

01:16:14.611 --> 01:16:16.071
-The max?
-Okay?

01:16:17.030 --> 01:16:20.075
A conviction for murder
carries a life sentence.

01:16:20.158 --> 01:16:23.829
The sentencing judge chooses
between 15 years to life

01:16:23.912 --> 01:16:27.874
or 30 years to life
before the possibility of parole.

01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:35.841
I just wanted my son's life
to have… concrete value

01:16:35.924 --> 01:16:37.467
in the term of years.

01:16:38.093 --> 01:16:40.887
And if that was 15, okay.

01:16:40.971 --> 01:16:44.266
If that was 30,
I would be happier with that.

01:16:45.726 --> 01:16:48.603
We have received a series of letters

01:16:48.687 --> 01:16:51.023
that have been submitted
on behalf of the defendant.

01:16:51.523 --> 01:16:56.111
They describe her as a good student
and a loving and caring person,

01:16:56.695 --> 01:16:59.615
um, and that she could never do
something like this.

01:17:00.699 --> 01:17:03.702
And I think that who she actually was

01:17:03.785 --> 01:17:05.662
is directly contradictory

01:17:05.746 --> 01:17:09.041
to what is painted by the letters
submitted on behalf of her today.

01:17:09.541 --> 01:17:12.628
Got a figure like a pinup
Got a figure like a doll

01:17:12.711 --> 01:17:15.672
Don't care if you think I'm dumb
I don't care at all

01:17:15.756 --> 01:17:18.759
Candy bear, sweetie pie
Wanna be adored

01:17:18.842 --> 01:17:22.095
I'm the girl you'd die for

01:17:26.725 --> 01:17:31.313
I feel like anybody's social media
isn't really them.

01:17:31.396 --> 01:17:35.275
It's how they want the world to see them.

01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:38.820
And at the time,
that's how my 17-year-old brain was

01:17:39.321 --> 01:17:40.822
wanting to be seen.

01:17:40.906 --> 01:17:42.491
Think I'm dumb
I don't care at all…

01:17:42.574 --> 01:17:44.785
This video was made in 2021.

01:17:44.868 --> 01:17:49.956
You can see the date right there.
April 2021. A whole year before.

01:17:50.749 --> 01:17:54.086
Anybody my age, like,
grew up with Marina and the Diamonds.

01:17:54.169 --> 01:17:57.339
This is just, like,
a song that everybody knows,

01:17:57.422 --> 01:17:59.549
and then it turned into a TikTok trend.

01:17:59.633 --> 01:18:03.929
We all have made our videos
to this exact sound. Like, to the trend.

01:18:04.429 --> 01:18:07.683
Got a figure like a pinup
Got a figure like a doll

01:18:07.766 --> 01:18:10.852
Don't care if you think I'm dumb
I don't care at all

01:18:10.936 --> 01:18:13.939
Candy bear, sweetie pie
Wanna be adored

01:18:14.022 --> 01:18:17.442
I'm the girl you'd die for

01:18:18.110 --> 01:18:22.155
I post probably, like,
five to seven TikToks a day. Per day.

01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:23.573
At that rate of content,

01:18:23.657 --> 01:18:26.785
I don't even remember
what I said yesterday.

01:18:26.868 --> 01:18:29.496
You cannot use that against her.

01:18:30.330 --> 01:18:34.167
Uh, Halloween of last year,
before being charged.

01:18:42.008 --> 01:18:44.302
When them vamps outside
Li'l bitch better be ready

01:18:45.804 --> 01:18:46.930
Are these post…

01:18:47.431 --> 01:18:50.934
These are on Halloween of last year,
so these would be post-crash,

01:18:51.017 --> 01:18:54.146
um, just before
she was charged in November.

01:18:54.229 --> 01:18:59.818
I'm introducing these to the court
to show the shocking lack of remorse.

01:19:00.777 --> 01:19:04.865
Dressing up as corpses
three months after she killed two people,

01:19:04.948 --> 01:19:06.992
it just sickened us to the very core.

01:19:08.702 --> 01:19:12.122
We're not seeing her post videos
of her mourning

01:19:12.664 --> 01:19:15.041
or videos of her regret.

01:19:15.542 --> 01:19:18.920
We were seeing posts
of her living her best life.

01:19:20.380 --> 01:19:24.885
We were dressed as Playboi Carti.
That's his makeup that he does onstage.

01:19:25.594 --> 01:19:28.138
And I think most people my age know that.

01:19:28.221 --> 01:19:32.017
Her and Dom loved Carti.
Like, her and Dom really loved Carti.

01:19:33.268 --> 01:19:35.812
That is what these kids do.
Everything's on social media.

01:19:35.896 --> 01:19:38.273
They make crazy videos all the time, so…

01:19:38.773 --> 01:19:40.609
Um…

01:19:40.692 --> 01:19:45.280
Uh, if she didn't kill someone,
I guess it wouldn't have been a big deal.

01:19:45.864 --> 01:19:49.075
But she did. So now it just kinda
sheds light on who she was.

01:19:50.410 --> 01:19:51.786
To the families

01:19:52.746 --> 01:19:54.372
of Dom and Davion,

01:19:54.873 --> 01:19:56.416
I'm so deeply sorry.

01:19:56.917 --> 01:19:59.544
I hope one day you can see
how I'd never let this happen

01:19:59.628 --> 01:20:01.296
or do it on purpose.

01:20:01.379 --> 01:20:03.006
And I'm so sorry.

01:20:03.507 --> 01:20:04.966
And to my family,

01:20:05.050 --> 01:20:07.636
thank you for the support
and all the love you guys give.

01:20:07.719 --> 01:20:10.430
Thank you for fighting for me.
I love you all so much.

01:20:10.514 --> 01:20:12.641
All right, I'm done.
Thank you, Your Honor.

01:20:14.935 --> 01:20:18.104
That was the worst apology
I think I've ever heard in my life.

01:20:18.188 --> 01:20:21.274
I know when someone's being fake or not.

01:20:22.025 --> 01:20:25.153
And that was not… That was not real.

01:20:31.827 --> 01:20:33.912
Hello. Could you start with your name?

01:20:33.995 --> 01:20:36.748
Hi, Your Honor. My name's Davyne Flanagan.

01:20:36.831 --> 01:20:38.959
Um, Davion was my older brother.

01:20:39.042 --> 01:20:43.380
Davion was not just a big brother to me,
but a role model in many ways.

01:20:44.756 --> 01:20:48.885
He was the person I trusted the most
because he made me feel safe.

01:20:48.969 --> 01:20:51.847
He was the one
who picked me up when I fell.

01:20:51.930 --> 01:20:56.393
He was my best friend and the only person
that has stayed with me since I was born.

01:20:56.893 --> 01:21:00.313
I would like you to give Mackenzie
the longest possible sentence.

01:21:00.397 --> 01:21:01.773
Thank you, Your Honor.

01:21:05.902 --> 01:21:09.155
Your Honor, this was
a terrible, tragic, nightmare accident

01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:11.533
to have happened
that she has no memory of.

01:21:11.616 --> 01:21:14.452
And she will never emotionally
or physically recover from it.

01:21:16.162 --> 01:21:17.873
I'm hearing a lot about your daughter

01:21:17.956 --> 01:21:20.417
and not hearing very much
about the two dead people.

01:21:20.500 --> 01:21:21.501
Dominic, okay?

01:21:21.585 --> 01:21:24.045
I'm asking you for leniency

01:21:24.129 --> 01:21:27.090
because this was a tragic accident
that she does not remember.

01:21:27.173 --> 01:21:29.509
And Do… Davion, we don't…

01:21:30.010 --> 01:21:32.721
-He's a new friend. And I'm so sorry.
-What does that mean?

01:21:32.804 --> 01:21:35.765
-His life is worth less?
-No, no, no. No.

01:21:36.558 --> 01:21:39.019
No. God, no. Not at all.

01:21:39.102 --> 01:21:40.645
I understand what it looks like.

01:21:40.729 --> 01:21:44.399
I'm… I'm… I'm saying that it was
a tragic accident. She would never--

01:21:44.482 --> 01:21:46.902
-We're gonna disagree on that.
-I understand.

01:21:46.985 --> 01:21:49.446
-I'm so sorry, guys. I'm sorry.
-Thank you.

01:21:49.529 --> 01:21:51.114
-I love you.
-Love you.

01:21:53.867 --> 01:21:56.578
I understand that the pain in this room

01:21:56.661 --> 01:21:58.997
wants me to impose the harshest sentence.

01:22:00.332 --> 01:22:03.627
But I don't believe that would be
the appropriate sentence

01:22:03.710 --> 01:22:08.048
because I do believe that Mackenzie
will not be out in 15 years.

01:22:09.799 --> 01:22:13.929
She's sentenced on count two,
the murder of Davion Flanagan,

01:22:14.429 --> 01:22:15.972
15 years to life.

01:22:16.473 --> 01:22:20.268
She's sentenced on count one,
the murder of Dominic Russo,

01:22:20.352 --> 01:22:21.645
15 years to life,

01:22:21.728 --> 01:22:25.649
to be served concurrent to each other
with credit for time served.

01:22:26.316 --> 01:22:27.984
There's a very good likelihood, Mackenzie,

01:22:28.068 --> 01:22:30.570
that you will spend
the rest of your life in prison.

01:22:37.577 --> 01:22:39.871
-Love you, Kenz.
-Love you all.

01:22:39.955 --> 01:22:41.122
We know you're innocent.

01:22:52.676 --> 01:22:56.930
We are just thankful
that we feel justice was served today.

01:22:57.013 --> 01:23:02.102
Um, there's not a day that goes by
that we don't miss our son,

01:23:02.185 --> 01:23:04.437
and justice was served for him today.

01:23:04.521 --> 01:23:07.357
Um, but honestly, there's no winners here.

01:23:07.857 --> 01:23:09.401
There's no winners here today.

01:23:11.069 --> 01:23:16.366
It matters to me
that Davion and Dominic's loved ones

01:23:16.449 --> 01:23:20.829
feel that justice was provided,

01:23:21.413 --> 01:23:24.040
and that Mackenzie was held accountable.

01:23:24.708 --> 01:23:31.715
And she will sit in a cage for a long time
because of what she did.

01:23:37.095 --> 01:23:40.098
It's really hard every day in here.

01:23:40.181 --> 01:23:45.437
I try to wake up
and be the best person I can be every day,

01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:47.063
stay out of trouble.

01:23:47.147 --> 01:23:50.650
There's not a moment that doesn't pass
where I don't…

01:23:52.235 --> 01:23:54.362
I don't think about them or

01:23:55.447 --> 01:23:56.489
I don't

01:23:57.282 --> 01:23:59.534
feel the pain in my chest that…

01:24:00.160 --> 01:24:04.080
It's still like a void of losing them and…

01:24:11.337 --> 01:24:13.715
Is there any last word
that you'd like to say?

01:24:16.593 --> 01:24:18.470
Did I touch on that… the right…

01:24:18.553 --> 01:24:20.638
Okay, so everything is, like… You think…

01:24:21.139 --> 01:24:24.142
I don't wanna force anything
and just say too much

01:24:24.225 --> 01:24:26.144
or sound crazy.

01:24:27.395 --> 01:24:32.525
I just wanna just make sure
that I'm big on the…

01:24:33.193 --> 01:24:34.194
the no intent.

01:24:34.277 --> 01:24:37.614
There was no intent whatsoever there.

01:24:38.615 --> 01:24:41.701
I have excessive amounts of remorse

01:24:41.785 --> 01:24:46.623
for Dominic, Davion,
both of their families.

01:24:47.457 --> 01:24:51.169
This was not intentional,
and I will do everything I can to

01:24:52.253 --> 01:24:55.423
prove that to the world and the families.

01:24:59.969 --> 01:25:01.054
And that's it.

01:25:02.931 --> 01:25:04.808
I have the capacity for forgiveness.

01:25:04.891 --> 01:25:07.018
I just wanna know the truth
of what happened that night.

01:25:07.685 --> 01:25:09.854
And I would be eternally grateful

01:25:09.938 --> 01:25:14.067
for her to actually tell us
how those last few moments were.

01:25:14.150 --> 01:25:18.905
No matter how… damaging to her
they might be to say,

01:25:18.988 --> 01:25:21.199
just to say the truth and let us know

01:25:21.282 --> 01:25:24.244
and let us grieve properly
and have some closure.

01:25:27.038 --> 01:25:30.125
We're not done yet, okay?
And I can't talk about anything.

01:25:31.126 --> 01:25:36.214
So just… have trust in…
have trust in us, please.

01:25:36.297 --> 01:25:40.677
Okay? But I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

01:25:44.639 --> 01:25:46.891
It's tragic, what happened
to those two boys.

01:25:47.809 --> 01:25:50.144
But think if it was your kid.

01:25:50.228 --> 01:25:51.688
What if Mackenzie was yours?

01:25:52.522 --> 01:25:53.690
How would you feel?

01:25:54.983 --> 01:25:56.901
I'm gonna fight for my daughter.

01:25:57.652 --> 01:25:59.946
And we have ironclad evidence

01:26:00.029 --> 01:26:03.867
that disputes what was said in the trial.

01:26:04.576 --> 01:26:05.952
This is the freeway incident…

01:26:08.037 --> 01:26:11.791
where Mackenzie was accused of threatening
to crash the car two weeks before.

01:26:12.417 --> 01:26:17.338
These are text messages between Mackenzie
and Dom's mom, Christine Russo.

01:26:17.422 --> 01:26:19.757
Mackenzie says, "Can you come get Dom?"

01:26:19.841 --> 01:26:23.219
"He just grabbed my steering wheel,
trying to spin out my car and hurt me."

01:26:23.845 --> 01:26:27.432
Christine says, "Hench is on the way.
Calm down for now, please."

01:26:27.515 --> 01:26:30.351
And then Mackenzie says,
"To be honest, I can't calm down

01:26:30.435 --> 01:26:32.061
when he just tried to end my life."

01:26:33.271 --> 01:26:37.192
She never threatened to crash the car
two weeks before the car accident.

01:26:37.275 --> 01:26:39.193
He did. He did.

01:26:39.277 --> 01:26:41.654
It wasn't her. She never
threatened to do anything before.

01:26:41.738 --> 01:26:45.283
So that removes that whole prior intent

01:26:46.117 --> 01:26:47.577
from their story.

01:26:47.660 --> 01:26:50.580
These messages are now part of an appeal

01:26:50.663 --> 01:26:53.166
based on evidence
that was never brought into the trial.

01:26:53.249 --> 01:26:57.170
Mackenzie Shirilla, who is in prison
for killing two people in a car crash,

01:26:57.253 --> 01:26:58.713
is asking for a new trial.

01:26:58.796 --> 01:27:00.924
We're gonna fight, fight, fight.

01:27:01.424 --> 01:27:03.176
If I have to drive to the White House…

01:27:03.676 --> 01:27:06.679
I'll take it all the way
to the Supreme Court if I have to.

01:27:07.430 --> 01:27:09.641
There's the Free Mackenzie Facebook page
somebody started.

01:27:09.724 --> 01:27:12.185
Thank you again,
whoever all these people are.

01:27:12.268 --> 01:27:15.021
And all the YouTube videos
sharing all the information.

01:27:15.104 --> 01:27:18.191
It is very probable
that a car malfunctions.

01:27:18.274 --> 01:27:19.734
-Yes.
-Or someone passes out.

01:27:19.817 --> 01:27:22.904
The black box tells us
what happened, not why.

01:27:22.987 --> 01:27:24.113
It wasn't intentional.

01:27:24.197 --> 01:27:26.950
Look at that face.
Someone's gotta pardon her.

01:27:27.033 --> 01:27:29.369
Mackenzie is too pretty for prison.

01:27:29.452 --> 01:27:32.538
We're all in this together.
Get her the hell out of there.

01:27:33.122 --> 01:27:35.792
Follow Free Mackenzie Shirilla
on Facebook.

01:27:38.711 --> 01:27:42.340
Every time a news thing
comes out, the Free Kenzie page,

01:27:42.423 --> 01:27:45.134
an appeal comes out,
it stirs everything back up.

01:27:45.218 --> 01:27:47.845
She got 15 years.
That's nothing. You know?

01:27:47.929 --> 01:27:49.931
Sit down, be quiet, and leave us alone.

01:27:50.431 --> 01:27:52.517
If they were truly sorry,
I think they would do that.

01:27:53.518 --> 01:27:55.645
She could get out at thirty…

01:27:55.728 --> 01:27:58.147
-What? Thirty-two, thirty-three?
-Mm-hmm.

01:27:58.231 --> 01:28:01.401
Yeah, and start a family
and live a happy life, you know?

01:28:03.069 --> 01:28:05.238
At least they can still
go see their daughter.

01:28:05.905 --> 01:28:08.282
Given she's in jail,
at least they can still go visit her.

01:28:08.366 --> 01:28:09.826
'Cause we can't visit Dom.

01:28:11.286 --> 01:28:13.413
I think the worst thing that could happen

01:28:13.496 --> 01:28:19.127
is for Mackenzie to be babied
for the next 15 years by her parents

01:28:19.210 --> 01:28:22.005
and told she did nothing wrong
and she'd never made a mistake in her life

01:28:22.088 --> 01:28:25.258
and she's the perfect girl
and she's been completely wronged

01:28:25.341 --> 01:28:28.261
and the system's against her
and the prosecution lied.

01:28:28.344 --> 01:28:31.139
All those things
are damaging to her psyche.

01:28:32.223 --> 01:28:36.561
Those aren't gonna help her adjust
and become a well-functioning adult

01:28:36.644 --> 01:28:38.021
when she gets out of prison.

01:28:39.272 --> 01:28:41.357
But just because of who you are
when you're 17 or 18,

01:28:41.441 --> 01:28:44.027
does that mean that's who you're gonna be
for the rest of your life?

01:28:44.652 --> 01:28:49.157
And it's my biggest hope
that she does change.

01:29:09.302 --> 01:29:13.639
What can you do to help?
He wanted to go to barber school so bad.

01:29:14.349 --> 01:29:18.019
We have a barber scholarship
under Davion's name,

01:29:18.102 --> 01:29:21.647
and it's basically
where you can donate money

01:29:21.731 --> 01:29:25.193
to a scholarship
that will go to a student in need.

01:29:25.777 --> 01:29:29.739
The plan is to send at least
one person to barber school fully paid.

01:29:29.822 --> 01:29:32.450
But if their GoFundMe campaign
raises enough money,

01:29:32.533 --> 01:29:35.578
they'll be sending people to school
for years to come.

01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:39.874
There is a handful of days
in those two and a half years

01:29:40.666 --> 01:29:41.751
that I've been happy.

01:29:41.834 --> 01:29:45.171
Like genuinely, really happy.

01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:48.800
The day we handed out the scholarship
was one of those days.

01:29:49.467 --> 01:29:50.718
Congratulations.

01:29:51.260 --> 01:29:53.262
Whoo!

01:29:53.346 --> 01:29:56.933
It's just good to see that someone,
even if they're not Davion,

01:29:57.016 --> 01:29:59.644
achieve their passion and their dream

01:29:59.727 --> 01:30:01.854
and to see how far that takes them.

01:30:03.106 --> 01:30:06.442
People are gonna know his name
and people are gonna know his heart

01:30:06.526 --> 01:30:08.194
and who he truly was.

01:30:08.277 --> 01:30:11.280
And if we could do that,
then Davion does have a future.

01:30:11.364 --> 01:30:14.700
And he might not be in it,
but his memory sure is.

01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:20.623
-Oh, you got power
-Ooh

01:30:20.706 --> 01:30:24.293
-Superpowers
-Ooh

01:30:24.377 --> 01:30:27.338
Do you even know how to wield them?

01:30:28.339 --> 01:30:31.717
-All God's children
-Ooh

01:30:31.801 --> 01:30:34.137
Are special

01:30:34.220 --> 01:30:37.265
-But not like you
-Ooh

01:30:37.348 --> 01:30:39.475
No, not like you

01:30:39.976 --> 01:30:44.647
-You're just like a flower
-Flower

01:30:44.730 --> 01:30:47.108
You're ever giving

01:30:47.191 --> 01:30:49.277
Ooh

01:30:49.360 --> 01:30:51.737
That's a given

01:30:52.321 --> 01:30:55.741
-All God's children
-All God's children

01:30:55.825 --> 01:30:58.202
Are special

01:30:58.286 --> 01:31:01.038
-But not like you
-Ooh

01:31:01.122 --> 01:31:04.417
-No, not like you
-Ooh

01:31:05.209 --> 01:31:06.669
-Ooh
-Lift it, lift it

01:31:06.752 --> 01:31:09.464
Lift your head

01:31:09.547 --> 01:31:16.554
To the sky
ead