Ohio teen Mackenzie Shirilla who intentionally killed her boyfriend and pal in 100mph crash is sentenced to 15 years to life in prison

An Ohio teenager who killed her boyfriend and one of his friends in an intentional 100mph crash has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

Mackenzie Shirilla, 20, sobbed as she learned her sentence on Monday for the murders of her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and his 19-year-old friend Davion Flanagan in July 2022.

In November last year she was charged with murder, aggravated vehicular homicide, felonious assault, despite insisting that the crash was an accident.

Prosecutors said she was on a ‘mission of death’ that she saw as her way out of their toxic relationship and that she’d scouted out the route a week before she killed him and his friend, who was ‘cargo’.

Mackenzie Shirilla with boyfriend Dominic Russo. She was convicted of his murder on Monday 

Judge Nancy Margaret Russo on Monday said that the most significant piece of evidence against Shirilla was the ‘chilling and tragic’ surveillance footage, which shows her accelerating to smash her Toyota Camry into the wall of a commercial building. 

‘This is the type of evidence you can never unsee,’ said Russo. 

‘She had a mission, and she executed it with precision. The mission was death.’

She said that Shirilla, who was 17 at the time of the crash, was a ‘literal hell on wheels’.

Last week, when Shirilla was convicted after a four-day, non-jury trial, Russo said the two men in the car experienced sheer terror as she drove them to their deaths.

‘There can be no doubt as to the absolute terror of the two people in that car,’ she said.

‘This was not reckless driving. This was murder.’ 

Shirilla’s Toyota Camry is pictured after the crash in July 2022

The judge on Monday said there was ‘no doubt of the absolute terror of the two people in that car’

The court was shown footage of Shirilla accelerating into a wall at 100mph

Shirilla’s lawyers had argued that the crash was an accident. 

She and the two victims had been smoking marijuana before the collision. Her family said she plans to appeal the verdict.

In one TikTok, she stares at the camera and declares: ‘I’m just one of those girls that can do a lot of drugs and not die.’

After the crash, Shirilla searched the internet for Los Angeles modeling jobs, from her hospital bed.

And following her release, she attended a music concert in a wheelchair and was in a TikTok video for Halloween, dancing with friends dressed as what appears to be a corpse. 

As she was led away in handcuffs, one relative shouted: ‘We love you, Kenz.’

Another shouted: ‘You’re innocent.’