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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.

00:14:51.223 --> 00:14:53.559 align:center
Me and Kenzie met in middle school.

00:14:54.977 --> 00:14:58.439 align:center
Growing up, we jumped from house to house
'cause we lived so close.

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She was like a sister to me.

00:15:03.819 --> 00:15:05.154 align:center
She's fun,

00:15:06.196 --> 00:15:07.197 align:center
loving,

00:15:09.158 --> 00:15:10.326 align:center
an amazing friend.

00:15:11.410 --> 00:15:13.370 align:center
She would stick up for you.

00:15:16.123 --> 00:15:19.877 align:center
I remember at school,
I was bullied a little bit.

00:15:20.753 --> 00:15:24.798 align:center
And Kenzie was like, "Don't talk to her
like that. That's not okay."

00:15:25.758 --> 00:15:27.509 align:center
She's a very loyal person.

00:15:29.219 --> 00:15:33.140 align:center
When I heard there was a car crash,
I tried to call Kenzie, like, 50 times.

00:15:40.731 --> 00:15:42.566 align:center
And not getting a response.

00:15:43.233 --> 00:15:45.444 align:center
And it was immediate panic for me.

00:15:45.527 --> 00:15:46.820 align:center
Recording.

00:15:51.533 --> 00:15:55.120 align:center
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,

00:16:08.509 --> 00:16:12.805 align:center
three broken ribs,
a lacerated liver, lacerated kidney.

00:16:12.888 --> 00:16:16.433 align:center
Th-This bone broke, snapped,
and it detached the tricep.

00:16:17.518 --> 00:16:21.021 align:center
And both carotid arteries
had damage to 'em from her neck snapping.

00:16:23.357 --> 00:16:25.150 align:center
She looked like she'd lost a fight.

00:16:26.694 --> 00:16:28.654 align:center
We just couldn't tell her about Dom

00:16:28.737 --> 00:16:30.990 align:center
'cause she was just going through so much.

00:16:31.532 --> 00:16:33.617 align:center
The police started asking her questions.

00:16:33.701 --> 00:16:36.245 align:center
Then I said, "Wait.
I think we need to get a lawyer."

00:16:36.328 --> 00:16:39.707 align:center
'Cause you'd said, "Don't say anything
to them without getting a lawyer."

00:16:39.790 --> 00:16:42.376 align:center
And he goes, "Okay, we won't ask you
any more questions."

00:16:42.876 --> 00:16:47.631 align:center
So then the police attempted
to get access to her cell phone.

00:16:48.132 --> 00:16:51.719 align:center
That's when he asked me for the passcode.
So of course we gave it.

00:16:54.221 --> 00:16:56.765 align:center
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.

00:17:05.107 --> 00:17:08.610 align:center
We are looking
for evidence of intoxication,

00:17:09.361 --> 00:17:11.447 align:center
communication with people.

00:17:11.530 --> 00:17:16.118 align:center
Social media posts would give some insight
into the events leading up to the crash.

00:17:19.413 --> 00:17:22.791 align:center
And then I got ready
to hang out with my friends again.

00:17:22.875 --> 00:17:24.084 align:center
Oh my God, Skims baddie.

00:17:24.168 --> 00:17:26.795 align:center
She's got the metallic swimsuit. So cute.

00:17:26.879 --> 00:17:30.215 align:center
We actually went in the lake pretty deep
'cause it was, like, so hot.

00:17:30.883 --> 00:17:32.801 align:center
In high school is when I met Kenzie.

00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.389 align:center
We started commenting
on each other's Instagrams

00:17:37.473 --> 00:17:39.808 align:center
before we even
talked to each other in person.

00:17:41.018 --> 00:17:44.354 align:center
We would, like, comment,
DM back and forth, or Snapchat.

00:17:46.815 --> 00:17:50.277 align:center
She'd make cute little TikTok videos
of her trying on outfits.

00:17:52.571 --> 00:17:55.032 align:center
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."

00:18:00.746 --> 00:18:03.624 align:center
She's like, "You're cute."
I'm like, "We get along so well."

00:18:08.170 --> 00:18:11.131 align:center
When I met her, I had 200K
on TikTok and on YouTube,

00:18:11.215 --> 00:18:13.342 align:center
and she had, like,
a few thousand followers.

00:18:14.927 --> 00:18:16.553 align:center
She always wanted to be a model like me,

00:18:16.637 --> 00:18:19.473 align:center
so me and Kenzie would hang out
and just go do photo shoots.

00:18:20.557 --> 00:18:22.142 align:center
Look at this place.

00:18:22.226 --> 00:18:25.771 align:center
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,

00:18:30.651 --> 00:18:31.735 align:center
everywhere they went.

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Dom and Kenzie,
they got together in freshman year.

00:18:39.910 --> 00:18:41.453 align:center
He was three years older.

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

00:18:44.414 --> 00:18:47.292 align:center
"Hey, you're dating an older guy.
This is a lot."

00:18:47.376 --> 00:18:50.295 align:center
But boyfriends weren't really boyfriends
at the time.

00:18:50.379 --> 00:18:54.216 align:center
They were very like flings
and "Oh, I wanna flirt and have a crush."

00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:57.970 align:center
Okay, who's trying to dress up
and go to the Minion movie?

00:18:58.053 --> 00:18:59.263 align:center
'Cause that looks fun.

00:18:59.346 --> 00:19:02.474 align:center
We already got two people down.
Yep, me and him.

00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:05.727 align:center
So we're ready to go. Who's coming?

00:19:06.228 --> 00:19:08.272 align:center
Dom had his own place.

00:19:08.814 --> 00:19:11.567 align:center
Kenzie moved in after we graduated.

00:19:12.484 --> 00:19:15.988 align:center
Even though she was 17,
we felt she was mature enough to do that.

00:19:16.655 --> 00:19:18.240 align:center
I love you, baby puppy.

00:19:18.323 --> 00:19:21.994 align:center
They were becoming a little tight couple.
They cooked a lot together.

00:19:23.162 --> 00:19:25.330 align:center
Always super healthy.
It was always organic.

00:19:26.790 --> 00:19:28.458 align:center
Dom would buy her clothes.

00:19:28.542 --> 00:19:29.543 align:center
Oh my God.

00:19:29.626 --> 00:19:31.753 align:center
That one looks like
the Skims shit but smaller.

00:19:31.837 --> 00:19:32.963 align:center
I got that as a backup.

00:19:33.046 --> 00:19:35.132 align:center
-Oh yeah, this looks really cute too.
-Yeah.

00:19:35.215 --> 00:19:37.301 align:center
-It looks like it's gonna fit me.
-Super cute.

00:19:37.384 --> 00:19:39.678 align:center
He really loved designer stuff
and just name-brand.

00:19:39.761 --> 00:19:40.804 align:center
Oh my gosh.

00:19:40.888 --> 00:19:42.806 align:center
-Dom, no you didn't.
-What?

00:19:43.348 --> 00:19:45.976 align:center
-These are Guccis.
-Okay! Baller.

00:19:46.059 --> 00:19:48.687 align:center
The boy wasn't hurting for money, okay?

00:19:48.770 --> 00:19:52.983 align:center
I think that helped Mackenzie a little bit
because Mackenzie likes things.

00:19:54.943 --> 00:19:57.112 align:center
Kenzie loved Dom with her whole heart.

00:19:57.196 --> 00:19:59.948 align:center
I think she was always planning
on getting married to Dom.

00:20:00.032 --> 00:20:04.161 align:center
-Okay.
-So cute.

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Recording.

00:20:14.755 --> 00:20:17.174 align:center
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.

00:20:24.389 --> 00:20:26.558 align:center
So she screamed,
and I said, "I'm so sorry."

00:20:26.642 --> 00:20:29.227 align:center
-She goes, "No, it's not. It's not him."
-Yeah.

00:20:29.311 --> 00:20:30.729 align:center
"Please go check. Go check"

00:20:30.812 --> 00:20:34.358 align:center
And I said, "Mackenzie, it's him,
because if it wasn't him, he'd be here."

00:20:35.901 --> 00:20:40.113 align:center
That was devastating to hear her.
The sound. It was gut-wrenching.

00:20:42.491 --> 00:20:44.243 align:center
Right after that, she was asking,

00:20:44.326 --> 00:20:46.203 align:center
"What about Davion? Is he okay?"

00:20:47.329 --> 00:20:49.414 align:center
And I had to say,
"No, he didn't make it either."

00:20:49.498 --> 00:20:51.250 align:center
And then she was like, "Oh God."

00:20:55.921 --> 00:20:58.215 align:center
We really wanted to talk to Mackenzie

00:20:58.298 --> 00:21:01.051 align:center
about what took place inside that car.

00:21:03.804 --> 00:21:05.013 align:center
She remembers waking.

00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.225 align:center
She remembers leaving the house.

00:21:09.434 --> 00:21:11.353 align:center
Then she remembers turning on the street.

00:21:15.774 --> 00:21:17.067 align:center
-And then that's it.
-That's it.

00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:19.444 align:center
She was trying to remember.
Like, she's trying.

00:21:19.528 --> 00:21:22.406 align:center
I'm like, "Mackenzie, you can't.
It's just not there."

00:21:27.285 --> 00:21:28.954 align:center
I'm not doing okay, like…

00:21:29.538 --> 00:21:32.624 align:center
It doesn't feel real. I keep saying this,
but it doesn't feel real.

00:21:32.708 --> 00:21:34.376 align:center
I don't know what the fuck happened.

00:21:36.628 --> 00:21:38.380 align:center
Thank you for being there for me.

00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.633 align:center
It just means a lot.
Like, I don't remember anything.

00:21:41.717 --> 00:21:44.136 align:center
Like, this is just the worst.

00:21:44.219 --> 00:21:47.222 align:center
I can see how someone
could have some amnesia

00:21:47.723 --> 00:21:49.433 align:center
from the… the impact of the crash.

00:21:50.267 --> 00:21:53.437 align:center
But the timing just seemed really

00:21:54.521 --> 00:21:55.355 align:center
perfect.

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

00:22:01.028 --> 00:22:03.655 align:center
to not be able to help the police
with their investigation.

00:22:05.157 --> 00:22:06.283 align:center
Recording.

00:22:10.037 --> 00:22:11.038 align:center
Hey, guys.

00:22:11.121 --> 00:22:13.915 align:center
A couple of days after the crash,

00:22:13.999 --> 00:22:17.669 align:center
two friends of Davion showed up
at the Strongsville Police Department

00:22:19.004 --> 00:22:22.632 align:center
and told them
that they could provide some information.

00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:26.386 align:center
We can literally see where Davion has been

00:22:26.470 --> 00:22:28.847 align:center
for the past
however long you need to know.

00:22:28.930 --> 00:22:29.973 align:center
Okay.

00:22:30.057 --> 00:22:34.311 align:center
One of the boys
had an app on his phone called Life360

00:22:34.394 --> 00:22:37.522 align:center
that was connected to Davion's phone,

00:22:37.606 --> 00:22:42.110 align:center
where you can monitor
each other's location via GPS.

00:22:42.611 --> 00:22:44.571 align:center
-I wanna show you.
-Explain it.

00:22:44.654 --> 00:22:47.240 align:center
This is when they were going
down on Progress Drive.

00:22:47.324 --> 00:22:52.162 align:center
It shows on this app
Davion was on his phone at 5:35.

00:22:52.245 --> 00:22:55.290 align:center
-Okay.
-And it says that they crashed at 5:36.

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

00:23:00.128 --> 00:23:02.214 align:center
-Graduation party.
-Yeah.

00:23:02.714 --> 00:23:04.758 align:center
They might have been on psychedelics.

00:23:04.841 --> 00:23:05.759 align:center
Mm-hmm.

00:23:07.386 --> 00:23:09.721 align:center
This was secondhand information

00:23:09.805 --> 00:23:13.058 align:center
that there were
drugs of some sort involved

00:23:13.141 --> 00:23:15.352 align:center
at graduate parties the night before.

00:23:16.019 --> 00:23:20.607 align:center
Maybe they were on the psychedelics
and she hit the gas…

00:23:20.690 --> 00:23:23.652 align:center
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

00:23:28.407 --> 00:23:30.450 align:center
because they do not, at our local lab,

00:23:30.534 --> 00:23:34.079 align:center
test for the psilocybin, for the presence
of that in someone's blood.

00:23:39.334 --> 00:23:41.628 align:center
But looking at Mackenzie's phone,

00:23:41.711 --> 00:23:45.549 align:center
there was evidence
of her tripping on mushrooms.

00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:50.929 align:center
And it seemed to be
almost a daily ritual for her

00:23:51.012 --> 00:23:53.056 align:center
to smoke marijuana from a bong…

00:23:54.808 --> 00:23:57.352 align:center
…with her camera propped up
in her clothing closet.

00:24:00.313 --> 00:24:03.692 align:center
There were some photographs
of her using marijuana

00:24:03.775 --> 00:24:07.571 align:center
in just the days
or even the day before the crash.

00:24:11.908 --> 00:24:16.997 align:center
There was multiple videos of her
smoking marijuana and driving that car.

00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.458 align:center
I knew. I don't have a problem
with her smoking dope.

00:24:20.542 --> 00:24:23.503 align:center
I don't have a problem with me smoking it,
with you smoking it.

00:24:23.587 --> 00:24:26.882 align:center
If you're gonna take a drug,
that's the one I believe you should take.

00:24:26.965 --> 00:24:30.427 align:center
It's… It's better than alcohol.
It's better than all the other crap.

00:24:30.510 --> 00:24:31.678 align:center
She's not shooting up.

00:24:34.556 --> 00:24:38.310 align:center
As typical high schoolers do,
we were kind of, like, the stoners.

00:24:41.730 --> 00:24:43.106 align:center
It would just be back-to-back fun.

00:24:43.190 --> 00:24:45.525 align:center
-I cannot.
-Okay. State your names.

00:24:45.609 --> 00:24:47.444 align:center
It's a TikTok.
We don't have that much time.

00:24:47.527 --> 00:24:49.738 align:center
-I'm Rosie.
-Okay. Hi, my name's Kenzie.

00:24:49.821 --> 00:24:52.115 align:center
-How are you feeling?
-How am I feeling?

00:24:52.616 --> 00:24:53.992 align:center
Well, I'm always pimpin'.

00:24:54.075 --> 00:24:58.079 align:center
My name's Bubba. I weigh 245 pounds.

00:24:58.163 --> 00:24:59.497 align:center
-I'm feeling good.
-Damn!

00:24:59.581 --> 00:25:01.791 align:center
I haven't ate a damn thing
at all today though.

00:25:01.875 --> 00:25:03.168 align:center
How you guys feeling?

00:25:03.251 --> 00:25:07.005 align:center
I'm geeking. This is crazy!

00:25:08.840 --> 00:25:11.176 align:center
Davion would say to us,
"All the kids are doing it."

00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:12.802 align:center
"They're all smoking weed."

00:25:13.303 --> 00:25:19.476 align:center
Me and my wife, Jaime, pushed back
on the narrative that weed is innocent.

00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:22.979 align:center
"Weed isn't addictive.
Weed's not a gateway drug, Dad."

00:25:25.398 --> 00:25:28.777 align:center
In high school,
football was Davion's number-one passion.

00:25:31.613 --> 00:25:34.157 align:center
Davion Flanagan.

00:25:34.241 --> 00:25:39.079 align:center
But four games into his senior season,
he tore his ACL and his UCL,

00:25:39.663 --> 00:25:43.959 align:center
and he pretty much was told
that his football aspirations

00:25:44.042 --> 00:25:47.420 align:center
for college and beyond
was over at this point.

00:25:47.921 --> 00:25:50.715 align:center
I think that's when he started to hang out
with some different people,

00:25:51.800 --> 00:25:55.553 align:center
different crowds, started experimenting
with illegal substances.

00:26:07.732 --> 00:26:10.068 align:center
He'd come home late, and I would say,

00:26:10.151 --> 00:26:12.571 align:center
"Show me your friends,
and I'll show you your future, Davion."

00:26:13.238 --> 00:26:15.448 align:center
Oh! Oh shit!

00:26:15.532 --> 00:26:17.117 align:center
…roof down for the ride…

00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:18.368 align:center
"Please stop."

00:26:19.411 --> 00:26:21.746 align:center
Do you want to drive?

00:26:22.372 --> 00:26:25.875 align:center
I think he was just being
a selfish teenager at that point,

00:26:25.959 --> 00:26:28.545 align:center
like, "Oh, I hate my parents"
type of situation,

00:26:28.628 --> 00:26:31.464 align:center
where you don't hate them,
you just don't like to follow rules.

00:26:33.425 --> 00:26:40.181 align:center
You can absolutely drive yourself insane
thinking about the what-ifs.

00:26:41.224 --> 00:26:43.226 align:center
Could we have done something differently?

00:26:43.893 --> 00:26:47.022 align:center
If Davion had listened to us,
maybe he never would've been in that car.

00:26:53.111 --> 00:26:56.406 align:center
This one over here, that's my son David,

00:26:56.489 --> 00:26:59.200 align:center
and he's kissing Dom, which is just…

00:26:59.284 --> 00:27:00.619 align:center
It melts my heart.

00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.289 align:center
Um, you couldn't buy this picture off me
for a million bucks.

00:27:04.372 --> 00:27:05.540 align:center
It means the world to me.

00:27:07.334 --> 00:27:09.085 align:center
He loved his nieces and nephews.

00:27:10.795 --> 00:27:14.049 align:center
He was there for everything,
every family holiday.

00:27:14.549 --> 00:27:16.051 align:center
We're a really close family.

00:27:16.718 --> 00:27:19.012 align:center
That's part of the worst part.

00:27:19.095 --> 00:27:21.306 align:center
He didn't get to see my kids grow up.

00:27:23.391 --> 00:27:25.977 align:center
You know, you're thinking about your son,

00:27:26.061 --> 00:27:28.730 align:center
and all of a sudden,
everything leads back to the crash.

00:27:29.481 --> 00:27:32.108 align:center
In my head, that's just where it goes.
That's where my mind takes me.

00:27:32.192 --> 00:27:35.487 align:center
What happened? What happened in the car?
What happened? You know?

00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:48.792 align:center
We knew that the night before the crash,

00:27:48.875 --> 00:27:53.171 align:center
Mackenzie, Dom, and Davion
went to a party.

00:28:01.429 --> 00:28:05.308 align:center
On the way, there were some text messages
between Mackenzie…

00:28:11.523 --> 00:28:13.149 align:center
and Rosie Graham.

00:28:15.110 --> 00:28:17.779 align:center
I was just texting her
to bring over some weed for the night.

00:28:19.531 --> 00:28:21.491 align:center
We were also talking
about doing the mushrooms,

00:28:21.574 --> 00:28:24.411 align:center
which is why they brought them
and had them in the car with them.

00:28:27.747 --> 00:28:30.834 align:center
Rosie would have been
the most likely source of information

00:28:30.917 --> 00:28:34.963 align:center
on what was going on in Mackenzie's mind
leading up to the crash.

00:28:36.548 --> 00:28:39.342 align:center
The police called to set up an interview,

00:28:39.843 --> 00:28:41.970 align:center
and I was like, "I'm not doing it."

00:28:43.388 --> 00:28:46.599 align:center
People always say
the police will try to say crazy things,

00:28:46.683 --> 00:28:48.893 align:center
especially if you're alone
and you're a teenager.

00:28:48.977 --> 00:28:52.063 align:center
It doesn't seem like we're trying to
figure out what happened in the accident.

00:28:52.147 --> 00:28:55.734 align:center
It seems like we're trying
to track down the next drug dealers.

00:28:55.817 --> 00:29:00.363 align:center
You have no idea how hard I tried
to get Rosie Graham to talk to me,

00:29:00.447 --> 00:29:02.198 align:center
to cooperate with me.

00:29:02.282 --> 00:29:04.784 align:center
But it's good to hear
that she talked to you guys.

00:29:05.744 --> 00:29:07.954 align:center
I'm fascinated to hear
what she has to say.

00:29:16.629 --> 00:29:19.090 align:center
First of all, it wasn't a party at all.

00:29:19.174 --> 00:29:21.176 align:center
Because in my opinion,
and everybody that was there,

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:22.969 align:center
we call that a sleepover.

00:29:23.052 --> 00:29:26.097 align:center
And that was just a friend sleepover
that we would normally do.

00:29:28.433 --> 00:29:31.895 align:center
I brought, like, a coloring book
and, like, colored pencils.

00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:35.982 align:center
We were watching YouTube videos.

00:29:38.109 --> 00:29:42.113 align:center
Me, Dav, and Dom,
we were watching a shark documentary.

00:29:42.614 --> 00:29:44.365 align:center
Stupid shit on the TV.

00:29:46.534 --> 00:29:48.995 align:center
A couple of times,
we'd go out and smack the bong.

00:29:50.622 --> 00:29:54.083 align:center
We were having deep conversations
and just sitting around.

00:29:54.167 --> 00:29:56.544 align:center
And we were also talking
about doing the mushrooms.

00:29:56.628 --> 00:30:00.048 align:center
But then by the time they got over,
it was, like, 12:00 a.m.,

00:30:00.131 --> 00:30:01.925 align:center
and we're all like, "It's too late."

00:30:02.634 --> 00:30:03.927 align:center
So no mushrooms?

00:30:04.427 --> 00:30:07.514 align:center
Um, yeah, we were all just kind of like,
"It's really late,"

00:30:07.597 --> 00:30:11.142 align:center
and we had, like, weed to smoke,
so we just smoked weed.

00:30:12.185 --> 00:30:14.145 align:center
Kenzie didn't even smoke that night.

00:30:14.229 --> 00:30:17.232 align:center
She was on a smoke break
'cause she was coughing up black mucus

00:30:17.315 --> 00:30:19.776 align:center
or bloody mucus,
something that was really bad.

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

00:30:25.406 --> 00:30:28.117 align:center
All I remember
is Dom just petting her head all night

00:30:28.201 --> 00:30:29.994 align:center
and cuddling up to her on the couch,

00:30:30.078 --> 00:30:32.497 align:center
and she was sleeping,
and he was caressing her hair.

00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.462 align:center
All of us all had plans that next day
to go out and do stuff.

00:30:39.546 --> 00:30:43.049 align:center
There was not one argument.
There was not one moment of tension.

00:30:43.132 --> 00:30:47.011 align:center
There was not one bad vibe
towards anybody.

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

00:30:53.268 --> 00:30:55.395 align:center
and I was like, "Are you guys leaving?"

00:30:57.188 --> 00:31:00.441 align:center
And it was right before they left,
me and Davion were talking.

00:31:00.525 --> 00:31:03.528 align:center
He was supposed to work on my truck
with me the next morning.

00:31:03.611 --> 00:31:05.863 align:center
And I offered to take him home.

00:31:05.947 --> 00:31:07.949 align:center
It was set
that he was coming home with me.

00:31:08.032 --> 00:31:10.618 align:center
And, like, last minute, he goes,

00:31:10.702 --> 00:31:13.079 align:center
"I wanna shower
and maybe sleep for a little bit."

00:31:15.874 --> 00:31:18.501 align:center
For some reason, he gave me a hug
and goes, "I love you."

00:31:18.585 --> 00:31:19.836 align:center
I was like, "Love you too, bro."

00:31:19.919 --> 00:31:23.381 align:center
Very weird. It was the first time
we said we loved each other for a while.

00:31:31.764 --> 00:31:35.268 align:center
At that point, when they left the house,
you have this black hole.

00:31:35.351 --> 00:31:39.022 align:center
The, uh, lack of knowing
what took place inside that car.

00:31:43.359 --> 00:31:45.862 align:center
But then
Strongsville Police Department called me

00:31:45.945 --> 00:31:48.364 align:center
about some of the video evidence
that they had uncovered.

00:31:59.584 --> 00:32:01.336 align:center
I'm Trooper Elliot Rawson.

00:32:02.462 --> 00:32:06.132 align:center
I serve as a crash-reconstruction trooper
with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

00:32:11.596 --> 00:32:13.556 align:center
We had obtained surveillance camera video

00:32:13.640 --> 00:32:15.892 align:center
of the final moments
leading up to the event.

00:32:19.103 --> 00:32:21.814 align:center
All right, so this is
the first camera vantage point, um,

00:32:21.898 --> 00:32:25.026 align:center
from the intersection
of Progress Road at Pearl Road.

00:32:26.903 --> 00:32:29.739 align:center
Here, we can see
the Toyota traveling southbound,

00:32:30.281 --> 00:32:32.533 align:center
and it begins to make a right turn.

00:32:37.497 --> 00:32:40.458 align:center
As it traveled west
for nearly a half mile…

00:32:42.543 --> 00:32:44.212 align:center
there was a slight bend

00:32:44.295 --> 00:32:46.714 align:center
where the second piece
of video evidence comes from.

00:32:47.215 --> 00:32:50.426 align:center
The camera was located
on the southern face of this building,

00:32:50.510 --> 00:32:51.719 align:center
pointing southwest.

00:32:58.810 --> 00:33:00.687 align:center
Based on my calculations,

00:33:00.770 --> 00:33:03.731 align:center
the Toyota averaged
approximately 97.8 miles per hour

00:33:03.815 --> 00:33:06.442 align:center
through this stretch right here.

00:33:06.943 --> 00:33:10.988 align:center
That's beyond unsafe speed
for the roadway and conditions.

00:33:15.535 --> 00:33:18.496 align:center
At this point,
the Toyota enters the intersection

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:21.708 align:center
where it struck the corner
of the commercial building.

00:33:40.017 --> 00:33:41.644 align:center
My first thoughts…

00:33:42.395 --> 00:33:43.980 align:center
It was just chilling.

00:33:46.482 --> 00:33:52.238 align:center
If… If anybody was awake and alert
inside that car,

00:33:53.197 --> 00:33:56.576 align:center
what a horrific last few seconds

00:33:57.326 --> 00:33:58.995 align:center
they endured.

00:33:59.078 --> 00:34:01.998 align:center
It was hard to comprehend that someone

00:34:02.540 --> 00:34:05.585 align:center
could just drive into a wall
at that kind of speed.

00:34:07.795 --> 00:34:13.051 align:center
I looked back at the video of Mackenzie
turning from Pearl Road onto Progress.

00:34:15.178 --> 00:34:16.429 align:center
It just didn't add up.

00:34:18.264 --> 00:34:21.100 align:center
It was not someone
who's driving with the music loud,

00:34:21.184 --> 00:34:22.935 align:center
throwing beer cans out of the car.

00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:25.730 align:center
This turning was controlled
and deliberate.

00:34:31.611 --> 00:34:34.363 align:center
And then when we get
the blood toxicology back,

00:34:35.490 --> 00:34:38.076 align:center
the blood test indicated no alcohol.

00:34:39.619 --> 00:34:44.123 align:center
They did find THC, the active chemical
contained in marijuana.

00:34:47.210 --> 00:34:51.380 align:center
But this was not someone
who was unfamiliar with driving

00:34:51.464 --> 00:34:53.466 align:center
under the effects of marijuana.

00:34:57.637 --> 00:35:00.014 align:center
But the most significant piece of evidence

00:35:00.807 --> 00:35:02.809 align:center
was that she has no psilocybin
in her system.

00:35:05.061 --> 00:35:08.189 align:center
So this was not
some sort of party gone wrong.

00:35:09.524 --> 00:35:13.486 align:center
She wasn't high on psilocybin
when she crashed.

00:35:14.612 --> 00:35:16.239 align:center
That ended that rabbit hole.

00:35:17.240 --> 00:35:19.116 align:center
Now we know this isn't impaired driving.

00:35:21.035 --> 00:35:23.204 align:center
What else would help explain this crash?

00:35:25.248 --> 00:35:27.291 align:center
Was something tampered with?

00:35:28.042 --> 00:35:30.545 align:center
Or did the car malfunction in some way?

00:35:31.045 --> 00:35:34.590 align:center
The police did observe
a fuzzy Prada slipper

00:35:34.674 --> 00:35:38.553 align:center
that appeared to be stuck
to the floorboard

00:35:38.636 --> 00:35:41.264 align:center
next to the accelerator pedal.

00:35:42.723 --> 00:35:44.725 align:center
Had that contributed to the crash?

00:35:46.727 --> 00:35:50.940 align:center
We needed to retain
a forensic auto investigator

00:35:51.023 --> 00:35:53.860 align:center
to do a complete analysis of that car.

00:36:01.617 --> 00:36:04.620 align:center
This Strongsville community is devastated.

00:36:04.704 --> 00:36:06.998 align:center
The cause of that crash is unclear.

00:36:07.081 --> 00:36:09.876 align:center
Police say speed was one of the factors.

00:36:09.959 --> 00:36:12.587 align:center
The police would contact us
at least once a week

00:36:12.670 --> 00:36:14.213 align:center
and give us an update.

00:36:14.755 --> 00:36:16.591 align:center
But they held a lot back as well

00:36:17.091 --> 00:36:19.927 align:center
because they needed
to keep their cards close to their vest.

00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:27.059 align:center
And then I saw an Instagram post
that was sent to Mackenzie from a brand

00:36:27.143 --> 00:36:29.312 align:center
a day or two after the crash.

00:36:32.773 --> 00:36:37.361 align:center
"We love this look. Can we use this post
on our website and emails?"

00:36:37.904 --> 00:36:40.114 align:center
It's answered by Mackenzie's mother,

00:36:42.033 --> 00:36:43.534 align:center
Natalie Shirilla.

00:36:43.618 --> 00:36:45.995 align:center
"Thank you for this amazing opportunity."

00:36:46.078 --> 00:36:48.289 align:center
"She would love if you would use that."

00:36:48.372 --> 00:36:51.792 align:center
"She's actually been trying
to contact you guys for PR email."

00:36:52.293 --> 00:36:53.878 align:center
"It was a tragic accident."

00:36:53.961 --> 00:36:58.507 align:center
"This is just as painful for her
as it is for everybody else."

00:36:59.175 --> 00:37:02.428 align:center
"Or maybe even a little more painful."

00:37:06.140 --> 00:37:08.643 align:center
Then Mackenzie responds.

00:37:09.268 --> 00:37:11.520 align:center
"Thank you for the comment.
I would love to work with you."

00:37:11.604 --> 00:37:15.191 align:center
"I've been emailing you guys a lot.
Such a great opportunity. Thank you."

00:37:16.943 --> 00:37:19.070 align:center
The only term that comes to mind
is tone-deaf.

00:37:19.153 --> 00:37:24.617 align:center
Like, she just doesn't get
how much anguish she's caused.

00:37:25.618 --> 00:37:26.953 align:center
No one in their right mind

00:37:27.036 --> 00:37:29.956 align:center
would post about being thrilled
about this opportunity

00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:34.126 align:center
after they just killed two people
in a horrific accident.

00:37:34.627 --> 00:37:38.047 align:center
It just felt off.

00:37:41.884 --> 00:37:44.553 align:center
I got a DM on Instagram from Mackenzie.

00:37:45.054 --> 00:37:47.723 align:center
She said, basically, "I'm sorry."

00:37:47.807 --> 00:37:52.228 align:center
"Davion was like a brother to me.
It was all an accident. I didn't mean to."

00:37:52.311 --> 00:37:55.314 align:center
She wanted to get her peace out of it.

00:37:55.815 --> 00:37:58.359 align:center
At the end of the day,
I didn't feel like I needed to respond

00:37:58.442 --> 00:38:00.027 align:center
to someone who killed my brother.

00:38:04.031 --> 00:38:06.951 align:center
Me and Mackenzie,
we went to the same school,

00:38:08.494 --> 00:38:10.955 align:center
but we were in a different year.

00:38:11.455 --> 00:38:15.251 align:center
Dude, why is the lighting in here
fucking terrible? Like, what the fuck?

00:38:16.419 --> 00:38:19.422 align:center
I already had, like, my opinion on her,

00:38:19.505 --> 00:38:22.299 align:center
and I'd expressed that
to Davion privately.

00:38:22.383 --> 00:38:23.551 align:center
I'm not even cool.

00:38:23.634 --> 00:38:27.013 align:center
I'm just one of those girls
that can do a lot of drugs and not die.

00:38:27.638 --> 00:38:29.807 align:center
She gave off this persona and this act

00:38:29.890 --> 00:38:32.643 align:center
of being, like, high up
and better than everyone else.

00:38:32.727 --> 00:38:35.646 align:center
I don't like when people
talk about the world,

00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:38.607 align:center
and they're like, "We're all gonna be dead
in 60 years anyways."

00:38:38.691 --> 00:38:41.736 align:center
Please go fucking kill yourself.
Yep, I said it. Go die, bitch.

00:38:45.197 --> 00:38:47.616 align:center
I heard people would steer away from her

00:38:47.700 --> 00:38:49.827 align:center
because she got very aggressive

00:38:49.910 --> 00:38:52.580 align:center
and could bully people
and talk bad about people.

00:39:02.882 --> 00:39:05.968 align:center
The school records showed
one incident after the next

00:39:06.052 --> 00:39:09.930 align:center
of disrespect to teachers
and fellow students.

00:39:13.976 --> 00:39:16.020 align:center
You just get a general picture of someone

00:39:16.103 --> 00:39:20.316 align:center
who does not have
a lot of adult oversight.

00:39:22.651 --> 00:39:24.111 align:center
There was an incident.

00:39:24.195 --> 00:39:26.405 align:center
They suspended her
for the last day of school.

00:39:26.489 --> 00:39:28.115 align:center
I had to get off work and come get her.

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.743 align:center
I walked in. I looked at my daughter,
and she's sobbing.

00:39:30.826 --> 00:39:32.995 align:center
I go, "Did you do it?"
She looked at me and goes, "No."

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:34.413 align:center
And I know when my daughter lies.

00:39:34.497 --> 00:39:37.166 align:center
I go, "Good enough for me. Let's go."
And I walked her out.

00:39:43.214 --> 00:39:47.093 align:center
Her parents would offer excuses
for her behavior.

00:39:47.176 --> 00:39:51.305 align:center
And typically Mackenzie would walk away
from those negative interactions at school

00:39:51.388 --> 00:39:54.892 align:center
with more freedom, less consequences,

00:39:54.975 --> 00:39:58.437 align:center
and her actions
being completely excused away.

00:39:58.521 --> 00:40:00.356 align:center
Am I a perfect parent? No.

00:40:00.439 --> 00:40:01.857 align:center
-Nobody is.
-No one is. No one is.

00:40:01.941 --> 00:40:04.860 align:center
-Have I made mistakes with my kids? Sure.
-Sure.

00:40:04.944 --> 00:40:06.570 align:center
It's… It's life, you know?

00:40:06.654 --> 00:40:09.406 align:center
But she wasn't a bad kid.
She didn't need to be disciplined a lot.

00:40:09.490 --> 00:40:12.451 align:center
You know, she… I mean…
The only… Her worst is her mouth.

00:40:14.203 --> 00:40:18.541 align:center
If any of you think
that that party situation is my fault,

00:40:18.624 --> 00:40:21.001 align:center
you can go fuck yourself
and leave my story.

00:40:21.085 --> 00:40:23.212 align:center
Right now. Yeah.

00:40:23.295 --> 00:40:26.966 align:center
Because we let
all you underage little fucks

00:40:27.049 --> 00:40:28.801 align:center
inside our beautiful home

00:40:28.884 --> 00:40:30.678 align:center
just to do illegal things.

00:40:33.848 --> 00:40:37.518 align:center
Looking at all of the information
we had from her phone,

00:40:37.601 --> 00:40:41.439 align:center
I felt like I started to see
who Mackenzie really was.

00:40:46.694 --> 00:40:51.574 align:center
And then we got back the results
from the forensic auto investigator.

00:40:52.575 --> 00:40:55.661 align:center
And that expert
determined that the braking,

00:40:56.162 --> 00:40:57.371 align:center
the steering,

00:40:57.455 --> 00:40:58.414 align:center
the tires,

00:40:59.790 --> 00:41:01.208 align:center
the acceleration

00:41:01.292 --> 00:41:04.003 align:center
were working properly.

00:41:05.004 --> 00:41:07.131 align:center
The car didn't malfunction.

00:41:08.757 --> 00:41:10.593 align:center
And in his professional opinion,

00:41:10.676 --> 00:41:15.055 align:center
the slipper was stuck to the floorboard
because of the impact.

00:41:15.139 --> 00:41:18.434 align:center
The floorboard had actually crumpled
around the slipper.

00:41:18.517 --> 00:41:21.437 align:center
So it had no contribution to the crash.

00:41:21.520 --> 00:41:24.023 align:center
That it was simply a result of the crash.

00:41:27.526 --> 00:41:31.363 align:center
Now we needed the information
off of the event data recorder.

00:41:41.123 --> 00:41:43.459 align:center
The EDR,
the electronic data recording system.

00:41:43.542 --> 00:41:46.337 align:center
Most people think of it as like
being the black box in the airplane.

00:41:48.130 --> 00:41:51.884 align:center
In this case, there's approximately
five seconds of pre-crash data.

00:41:57.973 --> 00:42:02.478 align:center
For the entire five seconds,
the accelerator pedal was at 100%.

00:42:02.978 --> 00:42:06.774 align:center
There was no taking off
or lightening up on the accelerator pedal.

00:42:06.857 --> 00:42:08.901 align:center
It was completely pressed
all the way down.

00:42:21.997 --> 00:42:25.334 align:center
Most people would want to slow the vehicle
or stop the vehicle

00:42:25.417 --> 00:42:27.086 align:center
to avoid that type of an impact.

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.381 align:center
But in this case, there was no braking.

00:42:44.812 --> 00:42:47.356 align:center
The data shows that
around three seconds before the impact,

00:42:47.439 --> 00:42:49.358 align:center
there was some steering input.

00:42:50.150 --> 00:42:53.571 align:center
Right movement, left movement,
and then a hard right movement.

00:42:56.949 --> 00:43:00.953 align:center
It shifted from drive into neutral,
back into drive again.

00:43:10.713 --> 00:43:13.340 align:center
I think the boys
were trying to save their life.

00:43:13.424 --> 00:43:15.801 align:center
I think Dominic and Davion
were yanking on the wheel,

00:43:15.884 --> 00:43:18.679 align:center
grabbing at the gear shift,
and it was just too late.

00:43:22.266 --> 00:43:23.642 align:center
100% gas pedal.

00:43:23.726 --> 00:43:25.603 align:center
No attempt at using the brake.

00:43:28.105 --> 00:43:31.358 align:center
The evidence all combines together to show

00:43:32.651 --> 00:43:35.029 align:center
this was not an accident.

00:43:39.074 --> 00:43:40.743 align:center
Oh-ho!

00:43:45.623 --> 00:43:46.874 align:center
Recording.

00:43:52.338 --> 00:43:53.213 align:center
Hello.

00:43:56.508 --> 00:43:57.509 align:center
Over here.

00:43:58.218 --> 00:44:02.181 align:center
The police conducted
numerous interviews of friends

00:44:02.264 --> 00:44:06.602 align:center
or people that knew Mackenzie,
Dominic, or Davion.

00:44:10.773 --> 00:44:13.233 align:center
-The door open or closed?
-It can stay open.

00:44:13.734 --> 00:44:17.071 align:center
One of the witnesses that
came forward was a friend of Dominic's.

00:44:18.238 --> 00:44:20.991 align:center
We've got a few questions for you.

00:44:22.201 --> 00:44:25.454 align:center
First thing is,
how long have you known Mackenzie?

00:44:25.954 --> 00:44:30.125 align:center
Probably when I moved to Strongsville,
so ninth grade.

00:44:30.209 --> 00:44:33.045 align:center
So describe the relationship.

00:44:33.545 --> 00:44:34.755 align:center
She would be, like…

00:44:35.756 --> 00:44:38.050 align:center
She was like, "Oh, I love Dom so much."
This and that.

00:44:38.133 --> 00:44:40.094 align:center
I remember one instance

00:44:40.594 --> 00:44:43.764 align:center
we were all about to get on the ride,
and Dom was on a phone call.

00:44:45.766 --> 00:44:48.310 align:center
She was like, "You get on this ride now."

00:44:48.394 --> 00:44:50.646 align:center
But he said, "I can't right now."

00:44:55.067 --> 00:44:58.320 align:center
And then we come back,
and she kicked Dom away from us.

00:44:58.404 --> 00:45:01.573 align:center
And she was just like,
"I'm about to break up with him."

00:45:01.657 --> 00:45:03.742 align:center
She was just saying stuff like that.

00:45:03.826 --> 00:45:06.328 align:center
Have you ever heard
Mackenzie threaten Dom?

00:45:06.412 --> 00:45:08.664 align:center
We were in this candy shop, and, um…

00:45:08.747 --> 00:45:11.458 align:center
This was after they'd gotten over arguing
and everything.

00:45:11.542 --> 00:45:14.294 align:center
She was like, "Either buy me something
or shut the fuck up."

00:45:14.378 --> 00:45:17.798 align:center
She always threatened
and was disrespectful to Dom in my eyes.

00:45:17.881 --> 00:45:21.009 align:center
Why did Dom put up with this? Do you know?

00:45:21.093 --> 00:45:24.430 align:center
Um, I've personally been told
that she did voodoo on him.

00:45:24.513 --> 00:45:26.098 align:center
I mean, I personally don't believe that,

00:45:26.181 --> 00:45:29.184 align:center
but she has told people
that she's put a spell on him

00:45:29.268 --> 00:45:31.603 align:center
so that he couldn't break up with her.

00:45:34.314 --> 00:45:36.859 align:center
Dom had so much going for himself, like…

00:45:38.902 --> 00:45:42.364 align:center
Why does he stick with Kenzie?
He can do so much better, like.

00:45:43.949 --> 00:45:45.075 align:center
Okay.

00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:48.287 align:center
I'm gonna let the prosecutor know
that you came down to talk to us.

00:45:48.787 --> 00:45:50.330 align:center
Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

00:46:00.174 --> 00:46:03.510 align:center
I had to try to figure out
what was going on here.

00:46:04.386 --> 00:46:08.140 align:center
I reviewed years of text messages
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

00:46:11.310 --> 00:46:13.437 align:center
One day they'd be in love with each other.

00:46:14.229 --> 00:46:17.399 align:center
The next day,
they would be at odds over something.

00:46:32.748 --> 00:46:35.667 align:center
In the beginning
of Dom and Kenzie's relationship,

00:46:36.251 --> 00:46:38.879 align:center
I told Kenzie, "Hey,
your boyfriend just cheated on you

00:46:38.962 --> 00:46:40.214 align:center
with one of our best friends."

00:46:41.632 --> 00:46:44.885 align:center
I felt terrible for Kenzie.
I mean, it sucks to be cheated on.

00:46:48.096 --> 00:46:50.682 align:center
He never, like,
just can, like, apologize on his own,

00:46:50.766 --> 00:46:52.976 align:center
make it up to me on his own,
get me flowers on his own.

00:46:53.060 --> 00:46:56.814 align:center
I have to give him that little push.
Actually, no, a giant-ass fucking push.

00:46:56.897 --> 00:47:00.275 align:center
I have to shove him off a fucking
60-foot diving fucking board type shit.

00:47:04.196 --> 00:47:07.032 align:center
Moving forward in their relationship,
it caused a lot of trust issues.

00:47:07.115 --> 00:47:10.369 align:center
Her to be like, "Hey, who are you with?
What are you doing?"

00:47:19.962 --> 00:47:22.714 align:center
It was a high-school relationship.
There's gonna be fights.

00:47:22.798 --> 00:47:24.800 align:center
There's gonna be up and down moments.

00:47:24.883 --> 00:47:27.803 align:center
None of them were ever held seriously.

00:47:27.886 --> 00:47:31.348 align:center
I was with them every single day,
and it wasn't daily arguments.

00:47:31.431 --> 00:47:33.517 align:center
It wasn't, uh, weekly arguments.

00:47:33.600 --> 00:47:36.311 align:center
It wasn't even like
anything crazy like that.

00:47:39.606 --> 00:47:41.316 align:center
Mackenzie loved her life a lot,

00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.152 align:center
and she really liked
what she had going on with Dom.

00:47:45.696 --> 00:47:47.823 align:center
Dom was gonna make it. That's for sure.

00:47:47.906 --> 00:47:50.826 align:center
He used to trade stocks.
He traded cryptocurrencies.

00:47:51.827 --> 00:47:55.205 align:center
He was opening an LLC
to sell all the vape stuff.

00:47:55.289 --> 00:47:57.332 align:center
Look how cute you look with your hair.

00:47:57.416 --> 00:47:58.709 align:center
Trying to get a clothing line.

00:47:59.293 --> 00:48:03.046 align:center
I don't know how I'ma take this seriously.
It all depends if Clay's playing better.

00:48:04.339 --> 00:48:06.258 align:center
He had goals, and he was gonna reach 'em.

00:48:06.341 --> 00:48:07.342 align:center
Whoo!

00:48:08.385 --> 00:48:09.928 align:center
And prior to Dom passing,

00:48:10.012 --> 00:48:13.599 align:center
you had said for about a year,
"I need to spend more time with Dominic."

00:48:13.682 --> 00:48:14.516 align:center
Right.

00:48:14.600 --> 00:48:18.020 align:center
The last couple of years,
we had tried to spend time together,

00:48:18.103 --> 00:48:19.605 align:center
but he was always with Kenzie.

00:48:19.688 --> 00:48:23.233 align:center
I just don't know why I forgot.
I was just too stressed out about prom.

00:48:23.317 --> 00:48:24.693 align:center
You're dumb as fuck.

00:48:34.328 --> 00:48:36.705 align:center
-When she came home…
-Crying herself to sleep.

00:48:36.788 --> 00:48:39.333 align:center
…she was either in bed,
at the memorial, or at the grave site.

00:48:39.416 --> 00:48:41.209 align:center
-At the grave site.
-Every day. Every day.

00:48:46.798 --> 00:48:49.760 align:center
Kenzie contacted me
through text, basically,

00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:51.887 align:center
and then face-to-face also.

00:48:53.138 --> 00:48:55.223 align:center
She said she was sorry. Yeah.

00:48:55.724 --> 00:48:57.726 align:center
I felt bad for her. I just kept thinking,

00:48:57.809 --> 00:49:01.146 align:center
"She killed the love of her life
and a friend."

00:49:01.647 --> 00:49:02.981 align:center
I felt terrible for her.

00:49:14.409 --> 00:49:17.245 align:center
I said, "Kenzie, it's okay.
You gotta try to get through it."

00:49:17.329 --> 00:49:20.874 align:center
It is what we were all trying to do,
and I was trying to be helpful to her too.

00:49:20.958 --> 00:49:23.585 align:center
It might not work for me.
It does sometimes, but…

00:49:23.669 --> 00:49:25.420 align:center
-Anything.
-Okay, Dom, are you here?

00:49:26.797 --> 00:49:29.466 align:center
Look. I'm not moving my arm. That's a yes.

00:49:30.592 --> 00:49:32.302 align:center
Do you have a message for Kenzie?

00:49:34.596 --> 00:49:35.597 align:center
L.

00:49:40.686 --> 00:49:41.687 align:center
O.

00:49:46.108 --> 00:49:47.943 align:center
V.

00:49:48.026 --> 00:49:49.027 align:center
Love.

00:49:53.407 --> 00:49:55.492 align:center
I miss him so much.

00:50:00.664 --> 00:50:03.083 align:center
I love you too, Dominic.

00:50:04.084 --> 00:50:07.879 align:center
We were also getting heat from the family
who didn't think it was an accident,

00:50:07.963 --> 00:50:10.090 align:center
not to talk to her.

00:50:10.173 --> 00:50:12.384 align:center
My ex-wife, Dominic's mother,
wouldn't talk to her.

00:50:12.467 --> 00:50:14.302 align:center
You really can't blame her, you know.

00:50:14.386 --> 00:50:16.430 align:center
We did not know things that they knew.

00:50:16.930 --> 00:50:18.181 align:center
Recording.

00:50:22.602 --> 00:50:24.938 align:center
In September of 2022,

00:50:25.022 --> 00:50:28.900 align:center
Dominic's brother Angelo
met with detectives.

00:50:30.610 --> 00:50:32.529 align:center
Dominic and Angelo were really close.

00:50:33.029 --> 00:50:36.324 align:center
They lived next door to each other,
so Angelo's seen a lot more than we did.

00:50:39.036 --> 00:50:41.663 align:center
So mostly what I'm interested in

00:50:41.747 --> 00:50:45.250 align:center
is the relationship
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

00:50:45.751 --> 00:50:49.296 align:center
Dom tried to break up with her
multiple times, even in July.

00:50:49.379 --> 00:50:52.257 align:center
It kept not working out, whatever.
They kept making back up.

00:50:55.510 --> 00:50:58.472 align:center
Dom would have to call Kenzie's parents,
call her mom and stuff,

00:50:58.555 --> 00:51:01.099 align:center
and say, "You need to come
get Kenzie outta here."

00:51:01.183 --> 00:51:03.685 align:center
"She's refusing to leave my house.
She's being crazy."

00:51:04.311 --> 00:51:06.938 align:center
Dominic's brother told police
he was convinced

00:51:07.022 --> 00:51:09.066 align:center
that from conversations
he had with Dominic,

00:51:09.149 --> 00:51:10.859 align:center
that Dominic was leaving Mackenzie.

00:51:13.028 --> 00:51:17.574 align:center
For me, you know, there's
two types of love that you give somebody.

00:51:17.657 --> 00:51:19.826 align:center
It's like, "I love that person
unconditionally."

00:51:21.995 --> 00:51:25.665 align:center
And there's a type of love
that's selfish and restricted

00:51:25.749 --> 00:51:27.501 align:center
and "I want them all to myself."

00:51:27.584 --> 00:51:29.336 align:center
And that was Kenzie with Dom.

00:51:30.253 --> 00:51:32.672 align:center
Kenzie's, like, she's let us know

00:51:32.756 --> 00:51:35.801 align:center
she will never let go of Dom,

00:51:35.884 --> 00:51:39.262 align:center
and if she has to let go of Dom,
she will not go on living herself.

00:51:41.890 --> 00:51:44.142 align:center
Give me my shit, dude. G… give me my shit.

00:51:44.226 --> 00:51:47.187 align:center
-Yeah, we have problems.
-Why are you trying to torment me?

00:51:47.270 --> 00:51:49.940 align:center
-We have problems.
-You're trying to torment me.

00:52:05.122 --> 00:52:07.791 align:center
This was clearly a toxic relationship

00:52:07.874 --> 00:52:12.420 align:center
on a crash course for… for termination
one way or another.

00:52:20.178 --> 00:52:25.433 align:center
It's difficult to prove these cases
without providing some sort of motive.

00:52:25.517 --> 00:52:27.602 align:center
Sometimes we're left
with only what happened,

00:52:27.686 --> 00:52:29.980 align:center
and we cannot tell why it happened.

00:52:32.149 --> 00:52:33.942 align:center
But two weeks before the crash,

00:52:34.025 --> 00:52:37.988 align:center
Dominic's mother, Christine Russo,
received a telephone call from her son,

00:52:38.071 --> 00:52:43.994 align:center
and he told her that Mackenzie
was driving erratically and dangerously,

00:52:44.494 --> 00:52:46.663 align:center
and that he needed help.

00:52:51.293 --> 00:52:54.254 align:center
So she sent her friend Christopher Martin

00:52:54.337 --> 00:52:57.591 align:center
to hunt down, on the highway, Dominic.

00:52:58.091 --> 00:53:00.051 align:center
Recording.

00:53:01.386 --> 00:53:04.389 align:center
-Chris, thanks for coming down.
-Not a problem.

00:53:04.472 --> 00:53:07.017 align:center
I just wanna ask you
about the incident that happened

00:53:07.100 --> 00:53:09.769 align:center
before the fatal crash.

00:53:10.270 --> 00:53:13.732 align:center
Um, Dominic called, and, uh,

00:53:14.274 --> 00:53:15.567 align:center
he was upset,

00:53:15.650 --> 00:53:18.194 align:center
and, uh, he was like,
"I'm driving in a car with her,

00:53:18.278 --> 00:53:21.323 align:center
and I don't wanna be around her anymore.
I'm done."

00:53:21.406 --> 00:53:23.158 align:center
So I get on the highway.

00:53:24.701 --> 00:53:26.828 align:center
And I call him. I say, "Where are you at?"

00:53:26.912 --> 00:53:30.707 align:center
She was like, "I'll crash this car."
I'm like, "Dude, what do you mean?"

00:53:31.207 --> 00:53:34.002 align:center
Can you clarify again
what you heard her say over the phone?

00:53:34.085 --> 00:53:36.630 align:center
-She said she'll crash this car.
-You heard her?

00:53:36.713 --> 00:53:37.839 align:center
-Yes.
-Okay.

00:53:38.423 --> 00:53:42.052 align:center
So we had a witness
who had heard her say those words.

00:53:42.135 --> 00:53:44.721 align:center
Mackenzie had threatened
to crash a car with Dominic

00:53:44.804 --> 00:53:46.181 align:center
two weeks before she did.

00:53:46.264 --> 00:53:49.935 align:center
In criminal cases,
we call that prior calculation.

00:54:01.321 --> 00:54:03.949 align:center
For three months, we had heard,

00:54:04.032 --> 00:54:06.493 align:center
"We have evidence.
We have evidence. We have evidence."

00:54:06.576 --> 00:54:08.495 align:center
"So when are you gonna arrest her?"

00:54:08.578 --> 00:54:10.705 align:center
"If you have evidence,
when is this gonna take place?"

00:54:10.789 --> 00:54:14.417 align:center
"When is the wheels of justice
finally gonna start to turn?"

00:54:16.586 --> 00:54:20.757 align:center
The evidence that we had
in this case was compelling.

00:54:22.759 --> 00:54:24.177 align:center
100% gas pedal.

00:54:24.261 --> 00:54:28.932 align:center
No attempt at using the brake.
The car didn't fail.

00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:33.353 align:center
She wasn't on some kind
of mind-altering substance.

00:54:33.937 --> 00:54:38.483 align:center
Mackenzie and Dominic had an incredibly
toxic and failing relationship.

00:54:39.567 --> 00:54:44.322 align:center
We were left
with no reasonable alternative

00:54:44.406 --> 00:54:47.909 align:center
but that she did it on purpose, because
that's what all the evidence indicated.

00:54:58.169 --> 00:55:00.672 align:center
Mackenzie was going to physical therapy.

00:55:01.548 --> 00:55:06.636 align:center
After we left that appointment,
I had gotten pulled over.

00:55:16.563 --> 00:55:18.023 align:center
I'll go back to her.

00:55:20.191 --> 00:55:21.276 align:center
Hi, Mackenzie.

00:55:21.985 --> 00:55:23.403 align:center
Don't touch my phone!

00:55:23.486 --> 00:55:26.114 align:center
You're under arrest.
We have a warrant for your arrest.

00:55:26.197 --> 00:55:29.951 align:center
Why? Wait, we have a lawyer.
I have to call my lawyer.

00:55:32.912 --> 00:55:35.123 align:center
I don't know
why they needed nine or ten cars

00:55:35.206 --> 00:55:37.959 align:center
to roll up on an 18, 17-year-old girl.

00:55:38.043 --> 00:55:41.171 align:center
Prosecution needed a show,
and they wanted to put on a pageant.

00:55:41.254 --> 00:55:43.882 align:center
-Where is she?
-Right back there, pal.

00:55:47.469 --> 00:55:49.888 align:center
Hi, Mackenzie. Step out for me.

00:55:51.848 --> 00:55:52.849 align:center
I'm Detective Hazou.

00:55:52.932 --> 00:55:55.143 align:center
I'm the one
who's been investigating the crash.

00:55:55.226 --> 00:55:57.771 align:center
You're under arrest
for aggravated murder times two.

00:55:59.522 --> 00:56:02.359 align:center
-Murder? What? What?!
-I was…

00:56:02.442 --> 00:56:04.110 align:center
Yeah, we were just… It was shock.

00:56:07.655 --> 00:56:09.240 align:center
Breaking news alert.

00:56:09.324 --> 00:56:13.870 align:center
An arrest in a deadly car crash involving
two Strongsville High School grads.

00:56:13.953 --> 00:56:16.706 align:center
We've learned now
18-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla

00:56:16.790 --> 00:56:19.959 align:center
has been charged with two counts
of aggravated murder.

00:56:22.921 --> 00:56:25.423 align:center
Taking that news in,
you're stunned for a while.

00:56:25.507 --> 00:56:27.300 align:center
You can't say or do anything.

00:56:27.384 --> 00:56:29.636 align:center
-I was shocked when she was arrested.
-Yeah.

00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:32.722 align:center
I was like, "What? W… why?
Was it the drugs?"

00:56:32.806 --> 00:56:35.683 align:center
No, they think she actually murdered him.

00:56:35.767 --> 00:56:39.187 align:center
'Cause all along,
we wanted it to be an accident.

00:56:39.687 --> 00:56:42.273 align:center
We didn't want someone
to intentionally murder our son.

00:56:46.069 --> 00:56:48.238 align:center
The day she got arrested,
everyone was chanting.

00:56:48.321 --> 00:56:51.116 align:center
Everyone was like,
"Oh, she's gone! She's arrested."

00:56:54.160 --> 00:56:56.371 align:center
I didn't think
she would get arrested at all for this.

00:56:56.454 --> 00:56:58.957 align:center
That's the last thing I'm thinking about.

00:56:59.040 --> 00:57:02.919 align:center
I'm thinking, "Our friends are dead.
How are we gonna recover from this?"

00:57:08.675 --> 00:57:11.553 align:center
You guys are acting like
this is Jeffrey Dahmer or someone.

00:57:11.636 --> 00:57:15.306 align:center
Someone that's out here,
like, calculating these murders

00:57:15.390 --> 00:57:17.934 align:center
and calculating these things.
No, that's not who she was.

00:57:18.518 --> 00:57:21.813 align:center
Could you be careful taking this one off
so it doesn't break the bracelet?

00:57:21.896 --> 00:57:23.523 align:center
-You got it.
-Thank you.

00:57:23.606 --> 00:57:26.317 align:center
I've seen so many people be like,
"This dramatic girl,

00:57:26.401 --> 00:57:29.195 align:center
she's going to prison
worrying about her bracelets."

00:57:29.279 --> 00:57:30.572 align:center
I don't wanna hurt you.

00:57:33.616 --> 00:57:36.161 align:center
But all of her bracelets
are, like, Dom bracelets.

00:57:36.244 --> 00:57:39.205 align:center
She just didn't wanna break
the things that Dom had given her.

00:57:39.289 --> 00:57:42.208 align:center
It's, like, the only…
The last thing that she has. She…

00:57:42.959 --> 00:57:44.419 align:center
She was so sad about it all.

00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:47.755 align:center
Here you go. Watch your head going in.

00:58:21.331 --> 00:58:22.332 align:center
This way.

00:58:23.249 --> 00:58:25.251 align:center
Okay, I'm gonna take your handcuffs off.

00:58:25.335 --> 00:58:27.795 align:center
-I need all the jewelry to come off, okay?
-Okay.

00:58:28.296 --> 00:58:29.547 align:center
I can't wear any of it?

00:58:29.631 --> 00:58:32.425 align:center
No. I need you to take it off
while you're in the jail right now.

00:58:34.552 --> 00:58:37.055 align:center
As soon as we're done,
you'll be able to make a call.

00:58:37.138 --> 00:58:39.474 align:center
We have to wait
for the detective to come back.

00:58:39.557 --> 00:58:41.017 align:center
Just have a seat for us.

00:59:04.207 --> 00:59:08.753 align:center
So could you tell me why you
want to give this interview, Mackenzie?

00:59:10.713 --> 00:59:15.510 align:center
I've never spoke before,
and I never told my side of the story.

00:59:15.593 --> 00:59:20.014 align:center
I understand there's many different sides
to the story and different perspectives,

00:59:20.098 --> 00:59:22.976 align:center
but I just wanna say my truth, and

00:59:23.935 --> 00:59:28.189 align:center
I just know myself,
and I know I'm not… a monster.

00:59:35.238 --> 00:59:37.573 align:center
We were just two kids
messing with each other.

00:59:37.657 --> 00:59:42.078 align:center
And then, as the years went on
and we stayed together and grew closer,

00:59:42.578 --> 00:59:44.831 align:center
we would have probably
been married by now.

00:59:47.709 --> 00:59:49.877 align:center
He was just so protective
and loving over me.

00:59:49.961 --> 00:59:53.506 align:center
I wanted to just heal him,
and he wanted to heal me.

00:59:54.340 --> 00:59:57.260 align:center
We were partners.
We just took care of each other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:01:38.319 --> 01:01:42.448 align:center
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 align:center
I have no recollection of that morning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:08:28.312 --> 01:08:33.484 align:center
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 align:center
Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:12:09.325 --> 01:12:12.911 align:center
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 align:center
-I was disgusted, and I really think that…
-Yeah.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:19:38.773 --> 01:19:40.609 align:center
Um…

01:19:40.692 --> 01:19:45.280 align:center
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 align:center
But she did. So now it just kinda
sheds light on who she was.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:20:39.042 --> 01:20:43.380 align:center
Davion was not just a big brother to me,
but a role model in many ways.

01:20:44.756 --> 01:20:48.885 align:center
He was the person I trusted the most
because he made me feel safe.

01:20:48.969 --> 01:20:51.847 align:center
He was the one
who picked me up when I fell.

01:20:51.930 --> 01:20:56.393 align:center
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 align:center
I would like you to give Mackenzie
the longest possible sentence.

01:21:00.397 --> 01:21:01.773 align:center
Thank you, Your Honor.

01:21:05.902 --> 01:21:09.155 align:center
Your Honor, this was
a terrible, tragic, nightmare accident

01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:11.533 align:center
to have happened
that she has no memory of.

01:21:11.616 --> 01:21:14.452 align:center
And she will never emotionally
or physically recover from it.

01:21:16.162 --> 01:21:17.873 align:center
I'm hearing a lot about your daughter

01:21:17.956 --> 01:21:20.417 align:center
and not hearing very much
about the two dead people.

01:21:20.500 --> 01:21:21.501 align:center
Dominic, okay?

01:21:21.585 --> 01:21:24.045 align:center
I'm asking you for leniency

01:21:24.129 --> 01:21:27.090 align:center
because this was a tragic accident
that she does not remember.

01:21:27.173 --> 01:21:29.509 align:center
And Do… Davion, we don't…

01:21:30.010 --> 01:21:32.721 align:center
-He's a new friend. And I'm so sorry.
-What does that mean?

01:21:32.804 --> 01:21:35.765 align:center
-His life is worth less?
-No, no, no. No.

01:21:36.558 --> 01:21:39.019 align:center
No. God, no. Not at all.

01:21:39.102 --> 01:21:40.645 align:center
I understand what it looks like.

01:21:40.729 --> 01:21:44.399 align:center
I'm… I'm… I'm saying that it was
a tragic accident. She would never--

01:21:44.482 --> 01:21:46.902 align:center
-We're gonna disagree on that.
-I understand.

01:21:46.985 --> 01:21:49.446 align:center
-I'm so sorry, guys. I'm sorry.
-Thank you.

01:21:49.529 --> 01:21:51.114 align:center
-I love you.
-Love you.

01:21:53.867 --> 01:21:56.578 align:center
I understand that the pain in this room

01:21:56.661 --> 01:21:58.997 align:center
wants me to impose the harshest sentence.

01:22:00.332 --> 01:22:03.627 align:center
But I don't believe that would be
the appropriate sentence

01:22:03.710 --> 01:22:08.048 align:center
because I do believe that Mackenzie
will not be out in 15 years.

01:22:09.799 --> 01:22:13.929 align:center
She's sentenced on count two,
the murder of Davion Flanagan,

01:22:14.429 --> 01:22:15.972 align:center
15 years to life.

01:22:16.473 --> 01:22:20.268 align:center
She's sentenced on count one,
the murder of Dominic Russo,

01:22:20.352 --> 01:22:21.645 align:center
15 years to life,

01:22:21.728 --> 01:22:25.649 align:center
to be served concurrent to each other
with credit for time served.

01:22:26.316 --> 01:22:27.984 align:center
There's a very good likelihood, Mackenzie,

01:22:28.068 --> 01:22:30.570 align:center
that you will spend
the rest of your life in prison.

01:22:37.577 --> 01:22:39.871 align:center
-Love you, Kenz.
-Love you all.

01:22:39.955 --> 01:22:41.122 align:center
We know you're innocent.

01:22:52.676 --> 01:22:56.930 align:center
We are just thankful
that we feel justice was served today.

01:22:57.013 --> 01:23:02.102 align:center
Um, there's not a day that goes by
that we don't miss our son,

01:23:02.185 --> 01:23:04.437 align:center
and justice was served for him today.

01:23:04.521 --> 01:23:07.357 align:center
Um, but honestly, there's no winners here.

01:23:07.857 --> 01:23:09.401 align:center
There's no winners here today.

01:23:11.069 --> 01:23:16.366 align:center
It matters to me
that Davion and Dominic's loved ones

01:23:16.449 --> 01:23:20.829 align:center
feel that justice was provided,

01:23:21.413 --> 01:23:24.040 align:center
and that Mackenzie was held accountable.

01:23:24.708 --> 01:23:31.715 align:center
And she will sit in a cage for a long time
because of what she did.

01:23:37.095 --> 01:23:40.098 align:center
It's really hard every day in here.

01:23:40.181 --> 01:23:45.437 align:center
I try to wake up
and be the best person I can be every day,

01:23:45.520 --> 01:23:47.063 align:center
stay out of trouble.

01:23:47.147 --> 01:23:50.650 align:center
There's not a moment that doesn't pass
where I don't…

01:23:52.235 --> 01:23:54.362 align:center
I don't think about them or

01:23:55.447 --> 01:23:56.489 align:center
I don't

01:23:57.282 --> 01:23:59.534 align:center
feel the pain in my chest that…

01:24:00.160 --> 01:24:04.080 align:center
It's still like a void of losing them and…

01:24:11.337 --> 01:24:13.715 align:center
Is there any last word
that you'd like to say?

01:24:16.593 --> 01:24:18.470 align:center
Did I touch on that… the right…

01:24:18.553 --> 01:24:20.638 align:center
Okay, so everything is, like… You think…

01:24:21.139 --> 01:24:24.142 align:center
I don't wanna force anything
and just say too much

01:24:24.225 --> 01:24:26.144 align:center
or sound crazy.

01:24:27.395 --> 01:24:32.525 align:center
I just wanna just make sure
that I'm big on the…

01:24:33.193 --> 01:24:34.194 align:center
the no intent.

01:24:34.277 --> 01:24:37.614 align:center
There was no intent whatsoever there.

01:24:38.615 --> 01:24:41.701 align:center
I have excessive amounts of remorse

01:24:41.785 --> 01:24:46.623 align:center
for Dominic, Davion,
both of their families.

01:24:47.457 --> 01:24:51.169 align:center
This was not intentional,
and I will do everything I can to

01:24:52.253 --> 01:24:55.423 align:center
prove that to the world and the families.

01:24:59.969 --> 01:25:01.054 align:center
And that's it.

01:25:02.931 --> 01:25:04.808 align:center
I have the capacity for forgiveness.

01:25:04.891 --> 01:25:07.018 align:center
I just wanna know the truth
of what happened that night.

01:25:07.685 --> 01:25:09.854 align:center
And I would be eternally grateful

01:25:09.938 --> 01:25:14.067 align:center
for her to actually tell us
how those last few moments were.

01:25:14.150 --> 01:25:18.905 align:center
No matter how… damaging to her
they might be to say,

01:25:18.988 --> 01:25:21.199 align:center
just to say the truth and let us know

01:25:21.282 --> 01:25:24.244 align:center
and let us grieve properly
and have some closure.

01:25:27.038 --> 01:25:30.125 align:center
We're not done yet, okay?
And I can't talk about anything.

01:25:31.126 --> 01:25:36.214 align:center
So just… have trust in…
have trust in us, please.

01:25:36.297 --> 01:25:40.677 align:center
Okay? But I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

01:25:44.639 --> 01:25:46.891 align:center
It's tragic, what happened
to those two boys.

01:25:47.809 --> 01:25:50.144 align:center
But think if it was your kid.

01:25:50.228 --> 01:25:51.688 align:center
What if Mackenzie was yours?

01:25:52.522 --> 01:25:53.690 align:center
How would you feel?

01:25:54.983 --> 01:25:56.901 align:center
I'm gonna fight for my daughter.

01:25:57.652 --> 01:25:59.946 align:center
And we have ironclad evidence

01:26:00.029 --> 01:26:03.867 align:center
that disputes what was said in the trial.

01:26:04.576 --> 01:26:05.952 align:center
This is the freeway incident…

01:26:08.037 --> 01:26:11.791 align:center
where Mackenzie was accused of threatening
to crash the car two weeks before.

01:26:12.417 --> 01:26:17.338 align:center
These are text messages between Mackenzie
and Dom's mom, Christine Russo.

01:26:17.422 --> 01:26:19.757 align:center
Mackenzie says, "Can you come get Dom?"

01:26:19.841 --> 01:26:23.219 align:center
"He just grabbed my steering wheel,
trying to spin out my car and hurt me."

01:26:23.845 --> 01:26:27.432 align:center
Christine says, "Hench is on the way.
Calm down for now, please."

01:26:27.515 --> 01:26:30.351 align:center
And then Mackenzie says,
"To be honest, I can't calm down

01:26:30.435 --> 01:26:32.061 align:center
when he just tried to end my life."

01:26:33.271 --> 01:26:37.192 align:center
She never threatened to crash the car
two weeks before the car accident.

01:26:37.275 --> 01:26:39.193 align:center
He did. He did.

01:26:39.277 --> 01:26:41.654 align:center
It wasn't her. She never
threatened to do anything before.

01:26:41.738 --> 01:26:45.283 align:center
So that removes that whole prior intent

01:26:46.117 --> 01:26:47.577 align:center
from their story.

01:26:47.660 --> 01:26:50.580 align:center
These messages are now part of an appeal

01:26:50.663 --> 01:26:53.166 align:center
based on evidence
that was never brought into the trial.

01:26:53.249 --> 01:26:57.170 align:center
Mackenzie Shirilla, who is in prison
for killing two people in a car crash,

01:26:57.253 --> 01:26:58.713 align:center
is asking for a new trial.

01:26:58.796 --> 01:27:00.924 align:center
We're gonna fight, fight, fight.

01:27:01.424 --> 01:27:03.176 align:center
If I have to drive to the White House…

01:27:03.676 --> 01:27:06.679 align:center
I'll take it all the way
to the Supreme Court if I have to.

01:27:07.430 --> 01:27:09.641 align:center
There's the Free Mackenzie Facebook page
somebody started.

01:27:09.724 --> 01:27:12.185 align:center
Thank you again,
whoever all these people are.

01:27:12.268 --> 01:27:15.021 align:center
And all the YouTube videos
sharing all the information.

01:27:15.104 --> 01:27:18.191 align:center
It is very probable
that a car malfunctions.

01:27:18.274 --> 01:27:19.734 align:center
-Yes.
-Or someone passes out.

01:27:19.817 --> 01:27:22.904 align:center
The black box tells us
what happened, not why.

01:27:22.987 --> 01:27:24.113 align:center
It wasn't intentional.

01:27:24.197 --> 01:27:26.950 align:center
Look at that face.
Someone's gotta pardon her.

01:27:27.033 --> 01:27:29.369 align:center
Mackenzie is too pretty for prison.

01:27:29.452 --> 01:27:32.538 align:center
We're all in this together.
Get her the hell out of there.

01:27:33.122 --> 01:27:35.792 align:center
Follow Free Mackenzie Shirilla
on Facebook.

01:27:38.711 --> 01:27:42.340 align:center
Every time a news thing
comes out, the Free Kenzie page,

01:27:42.423 --> 01:27:45.134 align:center
an appeal comes out,
it stirs everything back up.

01:27:45.218 --> 01:27:47.845 align:center
She got 15 years.
That's nothing. You know?

01:27:47.929 --> 01:27:49.931 align:center
Sit down, be quiet, and leave us alone.

01:27:50.431 --> 01:27:52.517 align:center
If they were truly sorry,
I think they would do that.

01:27:53.518 --> 01:27:55.645 align:center
She could get out at thirty…

01:27:55.728 --> 01:27:58.147 align:center
-What? Thirty-two, thirty-three?
-Mm-hmm.

01:27:58.231 --> 01:28:01.401 align:center
Yeah, and start a family
and live a happy life, you know?

01:28:03.069 --> 01:28:05.238 align:center
At least they can still
go see their daughter.

01:28:05.905 --> 01:28:08.282 align:center
Given she's in jail,
at least they can still go visit her.

01:28:08.366 --> 01:28:09.826 align:center
'Cause we can't visit Dom.

01:28:11.286 --> 01:28:13.413 align:center
I think the worst thing that could happen

01:28:13.496 --> 01:28:19.127 align:center
is for Mackenzie to be babied
for the next 15 years by her parents

01:28:19.210 --> 01:28:22.005 align:center
and told she did nothing wrong
and she'd never made a mistake in her life

01:28:22.088 --> 01:28:25.258 align:center
and she's the perfect girl
and she's been completely wronged

01:28:25.341 --> 01:28:28.261 align:center
and the system's against her
and the prosecution lied.

01:28:28.344 --> 01:28:31.139 align:center
All those things
are damaging to her psyche.

01:28:32.223 --> 01:28:36.561 align:center
Those aren't gonna help her adjust
and become a well-functioning adult

01:28:36.644 --> 01:28:38.021 align:center
when she gets out of prison.

01:28:39.272 --> 01:28:41.357 align:center
But just because of who you are
when you're 17 or 18,

01:28:41.441 --> 01:28:44.027 align:center
does that mean that's who you're gonna be
for the rest of your life?

01:28:44.652 --> 01:28:49.157 align:center
And it's my biggest hope
that she does change.

01:29:09.302 --> 01:29:13.639 align:center
What can you do to help?
He wanted to go to barber school so bad.

01:29:14.349 --> 01:29:18.019 align:center
We have a barber scholarship
under Davion's name,

01:29:18.102 --> 01:29:21.647 align:center
and it's basically
where you can donate money

01:29:21.731 --> 01:29:25.193 align:center
to a scholarship
that will go to a student in need.

01:29:25.777 --> 01:29:29.739 align:center
The plan is to send at least
one person to barber school fully paid.

01:29:29.822 --> 01:29:32.450 align:center
But if their GoFundMe campaign
raises enough money,

01:29:32.533 --> 01:29:35.578 align:center
they'll be sending people to school
for years to come.

01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:39.874 align:center
There is a handful of days
in those two and a half years

01:29:40.666 --> 01:29:41.751 align:center
that I've been happy.

01:29:41.834 --> 01:29:45.171 align:center
Like genuinely, really happy.

01:29:45.880 --> 01:29:48.800 align:center
The day we handed out the scholarship
was one of those days.

01:29:49.467 --> 01:29:50.718 align:center
Congratulations.

01:29:51.260 --> 01:29:53.262 align:center
Whoo!

01:29:53.346 --> 01:29:56.933 align:center
It's just good to see that someone,
even if they're not Davion,

01:29:57.016 --> 01:29:59.644 align:center
achieve their passion and their dream

01:29:59.727 --> 01:30:01.854 align:center
and to see how far that takes them.

01:30:03.106 --> 01:30:06.442 align:center
People are gonna know his name
and people are gonna know his heart

01:30:06.526 --> 01:30:08.194 align:center
and who he truly was.

01:30:08.277 --> 01:30:11.280 align:center
And if we could do that,
then Davion does have a future.

01:30:11.364 --> 01:30:14.700 align:center
And he might not be in it,
but his memory sure is.

01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:20.623 align:center
-Oh, you got power
-Ooh

01:30:20.706 --> 01:30:24.293 align:center
-Superpowers
-Ooh

01:30:24.377 --> 01:30:27.338 align:center
Do you even know how to wield them?

01:30:28.339 --> 01:30:31.717 align:center
-All God's children
-Ooh

01:30:31.801 --> 01:30:34.137 align:center
Are special

01:30:34.220 --> 01:30:37.265 align:center
-But not like you
-Ooh

01:30:37.348 --> 01:30:39.475 align:center
No, not like you

01:30:39.976 --> 01:30:44.647 align:center
-You're just like a flower
-Flower

01:30:44.730 --> 01:30:47.108 align:center
You're ever giving

01:30:47.191 --> 01:30:49.277 align:center
Ooh

01:30:49.360 --> 01:30:51.737 align:center
That's a given

01:30:52.321 --> 01:30:55.741 align:center
-All God's children
-All God's children

01:30:55.825 --> 01:30:58.202 align:center
Are special

01:30:58.286 --> 01:31:01.038 align:center
-But not like you
-Ooh

01:31:01.122 --> 01:31:04.417 align:center
-No, not like you
-Ooh

01:31:05.209 --> 01:31:06.669 align:center
-Ooh
-Lift it, lift it

01:31:06.752 --> 01:31:09.464 align:center
Lift your head

01:31:09.547 --> 01:31:16.554 align:center
To the sky
ead