The dad of “Hell on Wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla claims she didn’t purposely kill her boyfriend in a 2022 automobile wreck — as a result of she might have simply used one of many sufferer’s weapons if she actually wished him useless.
Steve Shirilla insisted on the podcast “True Crime This Week” on Wednesday that his daughter has “regret” for inflicting the deaths of her boyfriend, 21-year-old Dominic Russo, and his pal, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan, who was thought-about collateral injury, however didn’t imply for it to occur, TMZ reported.
His feedback surfaced because it was revealed Mackenzie and her mother as soon as cackled over the eye her case was garnering, mentioned writing a ebook about it — and predicted she’d quickly be rubbing elbows with A-listers and was doubtlessly on her strategy to a Hollywood profession.
“She was 17. She’s a dumb child. She didn’t do it on objective,” Steve advised host James Renner of his daughter’s heinous crime.
“I’ve requested her…’Did you do that on objective?’ And he or she’s going, ‘No,’ ” he stated.
“And I’d assume if my daughter was that mad, that mad at that boy to need to kill him that manner, Davion would have by no means been within the automobile [also]. … That is not sensible,” Steve argued.
Steve claimed that if Mackenzie actually wished to kill her boyfriend, she might have simply used one of many many weapons the younger man saved at dwelling.
“If she was going to do this to Dom, there have been weapons throughout that child’s home. … If she was going to kill him, that will make extra sense to me,” Steve stated.
Steve stated Mackenzie, now 21, who had been courting Dominic for a number of years earlier than the deadly wreck, had a “shrine to him” in her bed room and “cried herself to sleep each night time” after his loss of life.
“If you happen to would have heard her when she came upon that Dom died, in case you would have heard the sound that got here out of her, it will have crushed you,” Steve stated.
Chilling new textual content messages launched by regulation enforcement present that Russo was attempting to interrupt up with Mackenzie a month earlier than she deliberately floored her Toyota Camry right into a brick wall at 100 mph, killing each Russo and Flanagan.
“I’m gonna kill somebody,” “I j (sic) need to bang my head on the wall until I’m useless” and, “I f—king hate myself… Now I’m at your f—king home breaking down in your flooring,” Mackenzie eerily wrote to Russo.
Prosecutors argued all through Mackenzie’s 2023 trial that she wished to homicide Russo. She was in the end discovered responsible of vehicular murder.
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“This was not reckless driving — this was homicide,” Cuyahoga County Frequent Pleas Courtroom Decide Nancy Margaret Russo stated in court docket after the killer’s conviction. “She had a mission, and she or he executed it with precision. The choice was loss of life.”
Mackenzie’s father disputed that narrative utterly throughout the podcast.
“One thing occurred in that automobile. Nobody’s ever going to know. She’s harmless of the fees they put upon her,” he stated.
“[It] ought to have been juvenile vehicular murder, two counts, and we might have went from there.”
Mackenzie’s case has been within the highlight not too long ago for the reason that documentary “The Crash” was launched on Netflix earlier this month — the place she appeared on-screen from contained in the Ohio Reformatory for Ladies jail.
She is at present serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life.
