The Ohio Supreme Court denied an appeal for a 19-year-old woman who was found guilty of murder for purposely causing a car crash that killed her boyfriend and his friend in 2022.
The crash happened on July 31, 2022, just after 6 a.m. near Progress and Alameda drives in Strongsville. The occupants, Mackenzie Shirilla, Davion Flanagan, 19, and Dominic Russo, 20, had to be extricated from the vehicle.
Shirilla was flown to MetroHealth in Cleveland for treatment, while Flanagan and Russo were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Court records show that Shirilla "did purposely cause the death" of the two teens by crashing the vehicle she was driving.
In November of 2022, Shirilla was arrested and charged with the following:
- Four counts of murder
- Four counts of felonious assault
- Aggravated vehicular homicide
- Drug possession
- Possessing criminal tools
Shirilla was found guilty in 2023 and sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison for two concurrent life sentences.
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