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Mackenzie Shirilla | New Netflix Doc ‘The Crash’ Reignites Debate

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4.710.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On July 31, 2022, Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan were killed in Strongsville, Ohio, when Mackenzie Shirilla intentionally drove her car into a brick wall at over 100 mph. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Judge Nancy Margaret Russo found Shirilla guilty of 12 felony counts and sentenced her to two concurrent life sentences with the possibility of parole after 15 years.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone back to Crime Weekly News.

0:16.8

I'm Derek Labasser.

0:17.7

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.2

And we're going to be talking about a case today that is

0:22.2

all over the internet. I'll give you a quick summary here. On a summer morning in July of 2022,

0:27.8

in the quiet suburb of Strongsville, Ohio, a black Toyota Camry made a slow, deliberate turn down an

0:34.2

industrial road and then accelerated. In less than half a mile, it hit 100 miles per hour.

0:40.2

Seconds later, it slammed into the brick wall of a warehouse with such force that two young men

0:44.9

inside were killed instantly. The driver, a 17-year-old, walked away with her life, and eventually

0:50.9

a murder conviction. Her name was Mackenzie Shrilla, and the boys in the car were her boyfriend,

0:56.2

Dominic Russo, and his best friend, Davian Flanagan.

0:59.1

And the question that prosecutors, investigators, and now Netflix have spent the last

1:03.4

four years trying to answer is a simple one, but with a chilling answer.

1:07.6

Was this a tragic accident, or was it murder?

1:10.5

And before we start talking about it,

1:13.2

shout out to my brother Matt, who is watching our last, our Brandy Hall series. Like I said,

1:18.6

he was a firefighter. I told him he was mentioned in it. So, you know, he had to go watch it.

1:22.1

And he agrees with everything we said, by the way, what Randall did that day. And as far as the,

1:26.5

the communications and turning on his portable radio, absolutely. He's like, yeah, dude, I have no investment. That guy was not in the building. But that's a side note. And then he switched it up and said, hey, man, have you watched this documentary on Netflix yet? And I'm like, I'm not really into the, you know, true crime documentaries.

1:44.6

And he's like, you have to watch this. You have to watch it. It just came out. It's great.

1:49.4

So I'm like, okay, I'll watch it. I'll let you know what I think. I watched it. It was really well done. the story itself is crazy.

1:57.4

So then I, when Stephanie got home from her vacation, I'm like, hey, you have to watch this Netflix, Doc, and we have to talk about it this week.

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