Mackenzie Shirilla 2026 Update - Where is she now? (The Crash Netflix True Crime Documentary)

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]What's up everybody? So a fantastic new documentary just dropped on Netflix a couple of days ago. It's called The Crash. It's about Mackenzie Shirilla's case. She's the girl that crashed her car into the side of a building killing two people inside the car and severely injuring herself. She was put on trial for the murder of the two people inside the car and she was found guilty. She of course says she didn't do it on purpose.

[00:00:31]Her parents of course say she didn't do it on purpose. It is a very very well made documentary. I highly suggest checking it out. But everybody's asking, everybody's talking about it, everybody wants to know where she is right now.

[00:00:48]What's the status of her case? How are things going? Well, it gets very interesting. So Mackenzie was filing for post-conviction relief and her lawyer missed the deadline by one day and the courts refused to look at her post-conviction relief petition.

[00:01:09]Mackenzie's appeal for a new trial was denied by the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals in March of 2026 which ruled that her attorneys filed the critical post-conviction relief petition one day past the state's strict legal deadline.

[00:01:24]The appellate court refused to review the merits of the new evidence which her team claimed could prove a medical episode caused the 2022 crash stating the equitable arguments generally cannot overcome clear jurisdictional requirements. So she's claiming that she has POTS um which can cause blackouts and things like that. Uh but that doesn't matter now cuz the lawyer her lawyer missed the deadline by one day.

[00:01:58]So, obviously they're going to fight this and there's no news or anything like right now about what's going on with them fighting that. But, could you imagine being in jail, saying you're innocent, having a lawyer fighting on your side, and they missed the deadline to file your post-conviction relief petition by one day, and possibly ruining your chances to get out of prison?

[00:02:26]She's in prison right now until 2037, and it's crazy. What a crazy [snorts] story. We're going to go over a new article from People. It is linked, if you're watching this on YouTube, go to the description, you can check it out.

[00:02:41]If you're not watching it on YouTube, there's no link for you. Go check it out on YouTube. Mackenzie Shirilla's boyfriend asked for help after she allegedly threatened his life, then he died in a car crash with her at the wheel. I'm going to give my thought on what I think happened, but who cares about that? But, I'm going to give it at the end of the video here. Mackenzie Shirilla and her boyfriend Dominic Russo had a tumultuous relationship. Mackenzie was driving Dominic and their friend Donovan when she crashed her car into a brick wall, killing Dominic and Davion.

[00:03:11]Nearly 4 years after being found guilty of murder, Mackenzie spoke out in the new Netflix documentary The Crash.

[00:03:19]Mackenzie, then 17, Dominic, 20, and Davion, 19, were on their way home from a friend's house in Strongsville, Ohio, shortly after 5:00 a.m. on July 31st, 2022, when Mackenzie's 2018 Toyota Camry slammed into a brick wall. Dominic and Davion died almost instantly, and Mackenzie was hospitalized with numerous injuries. Mackenzie later posted online about how much she missed Dominic, including on his obituary page, which she wrote, "You had such a perfect life ahead of you." Her words fell flat after investigators noticed several elements about the crash that didn't add up.

[00:03:53]McKenzie and Dominic lived together, but were having problems. McKenzie and Dominic began dating when she was a freshman in high school. Their friends and family said in the crash that the pair were inseparable and McKenzie moved in with Dominic after she graduated high school, even though she was only 17 years old at the time. McKenzie's parents, Natalie and Steve, believed the pair would get married someday. However, their relationship was volatile. A friend of McKenzie's and Dominic said that he said Dominic cheated on McKenzie causing trust issues between them afterward. Police interviewed the group's friends after the crash, including one who said McKenzie was disrespectful and often threatened to break up with Dominic. Dominic's brother, Angelo, told detectives that Dominic tried breaking up with McKenzie several times and that he witnessed Dominic calling McKenzie's parents to pick her up because she wouldn't leave his home.

[00:04:42]He also provided footage of McKenzie trying to break into Dominic's house when he wouldn't let her inside.

[00:04:48]McKenzie threatened Dominic's life in the weeks before the crash. Assistant Prosecutor Tim Troop said that there were numerous text messages of McKenzie threatening Dominic throughout the relationship. There's a lot of those text messages in the doc. Two weeks before the crash, Dominic told his mother, Christine, that after trying to break up with McKenzie, McKenzie began driving erratically and dangerously and that he needed help and feared for his life. Christine sent a friend, Christopher Hensch Martin, to pick Dominic up. Martin later told police that he overheard McKenzie threatening to crash the car at the time and saw her swinging at Dominic. McKenzie, however, accused Dominic of trying to grab the steering wheel when she was driving. In the crash, her mom, Natalie, shows text messages between McKenzie and Christine in which McKenzie begged Christine to pick Dominic up because he was trying to spin out her car and harm her. Dominic's family initially stood by McKenzie. You watch the documentary, you can see that.

[00:05:52]McKenzie used psychedelics, but not at the time of the crash. So, her blood I believe it only came back for like marijuana. McKenzie, Dominic, and Donovan went to a friend's house the evening of the crash and left at about 5:00 a.m. The crash happened occurred at 5:36 a.m. McKenzie openly used marijuana and mushrooms often. And according to troop, the first responders at the crash scene found a small amount of marijuana in McKenzie's purse, a digital scale, and 8 g of mushrooms concealed in her clothing. However, drug tests found no alcohol or mushrooms in McKenzie's system.

[00:06:30]The crash troop said in the crash that McKenzie had THC in her system, but it was likely accustomed to driving while high on marijuana because she did it frequently.

[00:06:43]Dominic and Donovan may have tried to stop the car. Video evidence of the final moments of the crash showed McKenzie McKenzie's Camry driving normally and then accelerating to 97.8 mph before hitting a brick wall. The sound of that car hitting the brick wall is awful.

[00:07:01]After the collision, a slipper was stuck near the accelerator leading some to believe that it may have gotten stuck and caused the crash. However, forensic auto investigators determined that there was no malfunction in the car and that the slipper was stuck to the floorboard because of impact. The black box system from McKenzie's cars, I didn't even know cars had black boxes, from McKenzie's cars showed that the 5 seconds before the crash, the accelerator was pressed down all the way and she didn't brake.

[00:07:28]About 3 seconds I knew they were on airplanes, I didn't know they were in cars. About 3 seconds before impact, there was steering movement and the gear shifted into neutral and then back into drive. Troop summarized that Dominic and Donovan, who weren't wearing seat belts, tried to grab the wheel and gear shift McKenzie to try to steer away from the building or slow down, but it was too late.

[00:07:52]Armed with evidence from forensic auto investigators and surveillance cameras, police arrested McKenzie on November 7th, 2022.

[00:08:01]A police as police cuffed her, she requested they be careful not to break her bracelets, which were a gift from Dominic before his death. McKenzie claims to have no memory of the crash because of a medical condition. McKenzie and her mother, Natalie, insisted Man, her parents get so much hate online.

[00:08:20]They are not well-liked individuals.

[00:08:23]Insisted that she remembered nothing about the immediate lead-up to the crash, but but that they believe a medical emergency caused it. During the trial, troop used McKenzie's social media posts to argue that she showed a lack of remorse from the crash. She was convicted of murder and may spend the rest of her life in prison. McKenzie was tried as an adult in August 2023 and convicted of two counts of murder for Dominic and Davion's death. So, and so of course she's still fighting, but like I said, they missed the thing by a day.

[00:08:52]So, who knows what's going to happen with that. Did you check out the crash?

[00:08:57]Here's what I think.

[00:08:58]I think they got into a fight.

[00:09:01]Her and Dominic got into an argument and she was like got super upset and possibly threatened to crash and was accelerating. And by the time she realized what she was doing, it was too late. They had already crashed into the wall, killing Dominic and Davion. That's what I think happened.

[00:09:22]I think I don't think there was any like premeditation. She didn't get into the car at the friend's house and say, "I'm going to kill us tonight." I think it was a an argument that happened during the drive and she lost control and like not lost control of obviously lost control of the car but lost control of herself and got really mad and threatened to do it and did it but possibly by the time she realized what she was doing it was too late and the crash already happened. That's what I think happened.

[00:09:57]That Yeah, it it it's so sad that these young kids their lives two of them have there's no coming back and she ruined her life forever because of a split-second horrible decision that she made. What do you think? What do you think happened? Let me know.

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