‘Hell on wheels’ killer Mackenzie Shirilla lands prison job while serving life sentence for fatal 2022 crash
Convicted murderer Mackenzie Shirilla took a job at the prison while serving a life sentence for the 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend and his friends. Ohio prison officials confirmed this to Fox News Digital.
Shirilla’s institutional role at the Ohio Correctional Facility for Women is as a food service worker, according to Tara Nickle, a corrections officer assistant and public information officer for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
But officials declined to provide further details about the mission, citing Ohio public records exemptions.
The glimpse into Shirilla’s day-to-day prison life comes amid renewed interest in the case after Netflix’s “The Crash” revisited the fatal wreck, which prosecutors said was no accident for the driver who was dubbed “hell on wheels.”
Convicted murderer Mackenzie Shirilla took a job at the prison while serving a life sentence for the 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend and his friends, Ohio prison officials confirmed to Fox News Digital.
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Shirilla, now 21, is serving two concurrent 15-year to life sentences for killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend Davion Flanagan, 19, after prosecutors say he deliberately hit her. toyota Camry enters a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, on July 31, 2022.
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Police records reviewed by the Fox News Digital program Strongsville officers responded around 6:15 a.m. on July 31, 2022, after a Camry struck the PLIDCO building at 11792 Alameda Drive in Strongsville.
Shirilla, then 17, was removed from the driver’s seat and flown to MetroHealth Medical Center. Russo and Flanagan were pronounced dead after being mechanically removed from the wreckage, records show.
A. grand jury In the presentation reviewed by Fox News Digital, it was stated that Life360 data showed the vehicle was traveling 90 mph in a 35 mph zone, while Event Data Recorder information showed that the accelerator pedal was fully engaged and the service brake was not applied in the seconds before the devastating crash.
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A later police request to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office stated that the deaths were initially classified as accidental, but investigators believed the evidence showed the crash was “an intentional act, not an accident.”
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Police asked the coroner to conduct a second examination and change the manner of death. murder.
Prosecutors argued at trial that Shirilla entered the building to end her toxic relationship with Russo and that Flanagan was an unintended victim in the car. Shirilla’s case came to the fore again Netflix’s new series “The Crash.”
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Shirilla’s lawyers since the docuseries asked the Ohio Supreme Court for an objection.
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In a filing reviewed by Fox News Digital in the Ohio Supreme Court, Shirilla’s attorneys argue that trial attorneys did not adequately investigate evidence that he suffered from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS. It is said that the syndrome could have caused him to lose consciousness before the accident.
The defense said that despite the situation, it was only “obliquely referenced” at trial. Allegedly Shirilla and her family He warned his lawyers about this. His attorneys now argue that trial counsel should dig deeper and obtain expert testimony to explain whether POTS could explain Shirilla’s failure to brake before the crash.
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Cuyahoga County District Attorney Michael O’Malley said “there is no doubt that Mackenzie Shirilla guilty of murder,” his office said in a May 27 statement.
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