CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Hell on Wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla’s’s dad and mom had been at all times extra involved with successful their daughter’s approval than elevating her proper, a former pal instructed The Put up.
“From what I see, they didn’t actually care about her. They cared extra to have her approval,” stated Jaina Maynard, who met Mackenzie in center faculty.
“Kenzie runs the present – she runs her dad and mom,” the 21-year-old added. “They shouldn’t have been her pal. They need to have been her dad and mom.”
Maynard stated Steve and Natalie Shirilla enabled their daughter’s “past spoiled brat” habits for years earlier than she deliberately plowed her automobile right into a brick wall in July 2022, killing her ex-boyfriend Dominic Russo and pal Davion Flanagan.
Mother Natalie “form of appeared like one of many women,” the outdated pal recalled.
“She didn’t appear to be a full-on mother. She felt like one in all our mates.”
However Mackenzie routinely took benefit of that dynamic – and “was actually emotionally and verbally abusive to her mom,” Maynard claimed.
She recalled one incident throughout eighth grade when Natalie was driving a gaggle of Mackenzie’s mates to a haunted home.
“Kenzie stated phrase for phrase: ‘Mother, shut the f–ok up.’ And guess what? Her mother shut the f–ok up,” Maynard stated.
Moments later, a seemingly unfazed Natalie was again to providing the ladies snacks.
“She was so, so good after Kenzie simply handled her like utter s–t,” Maynard stated. “No matter Kenzie says, her mother simply does.”
Mackenzie additionally slammed Natalie as “so effing annoying” and “a bitch” in conversations along with her baby-faced friends on the time, in line with Maynard.
“Her dad and mom have finished all the pieces for her since she was just a little child, and he or she’s simply badmouthing her dad and mom each likelihood she will be able to get as a result of they received’t purchase her the following assortment of Bape hoodies,” she defined, referring to streetwear sweatshirts that run between $300 and $600.
“That’s the explanation her mother was a bitch.”
Nonetheless, Mackenzie was at all times decked out in “good garments, all the brand new footwear, the great luggage” courtesy of Steve and Natalie, Maynard stated.
“Clearly her dad and mom gave her all the pieces…’til she began courting Dom, and Dom ended up offering for her,” the previous pal continued – and referred to as Mackenzie “the definition of a spoiled brat.”
Mackenzie, now 21, is serving two concurrent 15 years to life sentences in an Ohio ladies’s jail after being convicted in 2023 of murdering Russo and Flanagan. She is interesting her conviction for a second time.
Her dad and mom have confronted renewed scrutiny for his or her seemingly permissive method to their daughter’s habits and hardline protection of her horrific crimes, as captured in a brand new in style Netflix documentary, “The Crash.”
“I knew she was smoking dope – I don’t have an issue along with her smoking dope,” Steve stated within the movie, whereas addressing Mackenzie’s frequent marijuana consumption all through her teenagers.
“Should you’re going to smoke a drug, that’s the one I imagine you need to take…you already know, she’s not taking pictures up,” he continued.
The questionable remark bought Steve suspended from his instructing job at a Pre-Ok by means of eighth grade faculty exterior of Cleveland, the place directors stated they had been investigating allegations of his “poor judgement” final month.
Maynard praised the college’s resolution and claimed the Shirillas weren’t trustworthy concerning the full extent of their daughter’s drug utilization.
“They knew that their daughter was driving and smoking weed and dashing,” she stated. “Her mother actually follows her on social media and Kenzie would put up this freely.”
The ex-pal claimed Mackenzie commonly posted movies of herself smoking from a bong on Snapchat as early as center faculty.
“She would go dwelling and instantly sit in entrance of the digicam, gentle her bong up and dance in entrance of the digicam and put up the movies,” she stated.
“I used to be smoking in center faculty, so I might really get weed from her,” Maynard alleged, whereas dismissing on-line rumors that Russo was a drug vendor as “utterly false.”
Maynard additionally accused Mackezie of “severely tormenting” classmates – together with one lady who allegedly left the college district after the killer inspired her to hurt herself in center faculty.
“It bought to the purpose the place this lady ended up checking herself right into a psychological facility after which left the district of Strongsville altogether…it was horrible,” she claimed.
Steve and Natalie have continued to keep up their daughter’s innocence and not too long ago expressed dissatisfaction about how the Netflix documentary was edited.
The couple additionally drew backlash throughout Mackenzie’s sentencing listening to, when Natalie referred to Flanagan as “a brand new pal” whereas pleading to the choose for leniency.
“What does that imply? His life was nugatory?” the choose demanded, prompting Natalie to apologize to the mourning households.
Steve and Natalie couldn’t be reached for remark.
