New police body camera footage captured convicted “hell on wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla just after cops arrested her for murdering her boyfriend and his friend by slamming her car into a wall — but the tearful teen seemed more concerned about breaking her jewelry than the heinous act she’d just committed.
In the July 2022 clip, a cop walks up to a police SUV and lets out the then-17-year-old Shirilla, who sits cuffed in the backseat after the fatal crash in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville.
“Hi Mackenzie, step out for me?” the officer asks on the video, published by multiple outlets. “I’m the one who’s been investigating the crash, you’re under arrest for aggravated murder, times two.”
“Nobody’s going to ask you any questions, nobody’s going to bother you.”
But the tearful Shirilla — later convicted of four counts of murder for killing boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and his friend Davion Flanagan, 19, in the crash — was more worried about the cuffs snagging on her bracelet.
“Could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn’t break the bracelet, please?” Shirilla asked through sniffles and tears.
“You got it,” the officer responded as he manipulated the cuffs, then refastened them. “I’m not going to tighten these, OK? I don’t want to hurt you.”
Then he led Shirilla to another cruiser and put her in the backseat, where the shell-shocked teen remained throughout her drive to the station.
At one point, the Ohio girl closed her eyes and leaned over as she apparently tried to sleep on the way.
A year later, in August 2023, Shirilla was sentenced to two concurrent 15-years-to-life sentences for killing Russo and Flanagan in the deliberate car wreck.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo (unrelated to the victim) called Shirilla “literal hell on wheels” when she announced the bench trial’s verdict.
“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” Russo told the court. “She had a mission, and she executed it with precision … The decision was death.”
Security video captured Shirilla acting with “purpose and intent” by flooring her Toyota Camry to 100 mph, jumping a curb and careening into a brick warehouse — all because her months-long relationship was reaching an end.
“She morphs from a responsible driver to literal hell on wheels as she makes her way down the street,” the judge said.
Russo, who was in the passenger seat, and Flanagan, who was in the back, died at the scene.
Shirilla was found unconscious with her fuzzy Prada slippers still on the accelerator.
She had THC in her system over the legal limit, but the prosecution decided not to pursue charges of driving under the influence.
At the sentencing hearing, Russo added that she’d grappled with letting Shirilla serve consecutive or concurrent sentences.
“I understand that the pain in this room wants me to impose the harshest sentence, but I don’t believe that would be the appropriate sentence, because I do believe that Mackenzie won’t be out in 15 years,” the judge said.
Shirilla didn’t testify during the bench trial. But she did read a statement in which she apologized to the heartbroken families of the dead men.
“The families of Dominic and Davion, I’m so deeply sorry,” she said between sobs, calling Dominic her “soul mate.”
“I hope one day you can see I would never let this happen or do it on purpose,” she continued. “I wish I could remember what happened.”
The families were less than accepting of her apology.
“Dom and Davion were robbed of their futures, their hopes and their dreams,” Dominic’s mother, Christine Russo, said in her own statement.
“Mackenzie showed no mercy on Dominic, nor did she on Davion. Only God at this time can have mercy on her soul.”
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