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   Blue insanity to All   
   Re: 'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of    
   19 Aug 23 09:11:42   
   
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   From: blue.insanity@nurtec.com   
      
   On 05 Mar 2022, "? Kurt Nicklas"  posted some   
   news:t00huc$25np7$98@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > Sterilize the cunt.  She should never ever have children.   
      
   A teenage Ohio girl was convicted of murder Monday, accused of   
   intentionally killing her boyfriend and his friend by crashing her car   
   into a brick building going 100 mph last year.   
      
   Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, was found guilty in a bench trial on 12 counts:   
   four of murder, four of felonious assault, two of aggravated vehicular   
   homicide, one of drug possession and one of possessing criminal tools.   
      
   Shirilla broke down in tears as Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy   
   Margaret Russo said at the verdict reading Monday: “This was not reckless   
   driving. This was murder.”   
      
   The crash happened around 5:30 a.m. July 31, 2022, when Shirilla   
   accelerated her Toyota Camry into the Plidco Building, a large brick   
   building at the intersection of Progress and Alameda drives in the   
   Cleveland suburb of Strongsville, police and prosecutors said.   
      
   When police arrived at the scene, around 45 minutes later, they found the   
   car with “severe damage and full airbag deployments” and Shirilla, then   
   17, inside with her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, and his friend Davion   
   Flanagan, 19.   
      
   They were unconscious, not breathing and trapped in the vehicle, police   
   said at the time. Shirilla was taken to a local hospital, but Russo and   
   Flanagan were pronounced dead at the scene.   
      
   Shirilla was 18 when she was arrested Nov. 4.   
      
   Prosecutors argued that Shirilla had a toxic relationship with Russo and   
   had threatened him before.   
      
   Two weeks before the crash, she allegedly threatened to crash her vehicle   
   when she was driving with Russo because she was upset over a disagreement   
   they had. Russo called his mother and asked to be picked up, and a friend   
   ended up retrieving him. In a phone call with Russo, the friend allegedly   
   overheard Shirilla say, “I will crash this car right now,” prosecutors   
   said in court documents.   
      
   The month of the crash, Shirilla allegedly “made multiple threats” toward   
   Russo. Videos recovered from his phone reveal an altercation in which she   
   was heard “repeatedly degrading Dominic, threatening him, and damaging his   
   property,” prosecutors said in court documents. She allegedly threatened   
   to key his car and to break the handle off a door after he refused to let   
   her into his home, the filings said.   
      
   Russo, the judge, delivered a scalding description of the case before she   
   read out the verdict, saying Shirilla had a "mission" she executed with   
   "precision" that fateful day — and "the mission was death."   
      
   “The [crash] video clearly shows the purpose and intent of the defendant.   
   She chose a course of death and destruction that day,” Russo said.   
      
   “She morphs from a responsible driver to literal hell on wheels as she   
   makes her way down the street,” Russo said, saying Shirilla made a   
   calculated decision to drive that morning, when not many people would be   
   around, on an obscure route she did not routinely take.   
      
   Prosecutor Michael O’Malley told NBC affiliate WKYC of Cleveland that the   
   crash video was damning, saying, “The intent was obvious upon seeing that   
   video that there was only one goal.”   
      
   Flanagan’s mother, Jaime Flanagan, told the station after the verdict:   
   “There’s not a day that goes by that we don’t miss our son, and justice   
   was served for him today. But honestly there’s no winners here. There’s no   
   winners here today.”   
      
   Shirilla's attorney, James McDonnell, declined to comment Wednesday.   
      
   She is due back in court for sentencing Monday.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/hell-wheels-ohio-teen-convicted-   
   intentionally-crashing-car-100-mph-bui-rcna100194   
      
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