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[tense music playing]

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-[walkie-talkie beeps]
-[electronic voice] Recording.

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[walkie-talkie beeps]

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[indistinct walkie-talkie chatter]

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[man 1] Sixty on Westwood.
I'm gonna turn on Alameda.

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[walkie-talkie beeps]

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[woman 1] I copy.

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[woman 2] Copy.

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[man 2] It's a breakdown. Holy crap!

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[woman 1] We're arriving.

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[man 1] Forty-six on Progress.

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[man 2] Radio,

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this car is split in two.

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Radio, there's an occupant inside.
Send us some squad now.

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We gotta bust the window out.

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Send us some more units.

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[pounding]

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[teacher 1] Welcome to the class of 2022
commencement ceremony.

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Today, we share in the celebration
of the journey

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that our children have shared

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that is now culminating in the achievement
of one of their life milestones.

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-[siren wails]
-[man 2] Oh my God. Times three, guys.

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-Radio, three occupants.
-[man 1] Three occupants.

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[man 2] Yeah, all pretty young.

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[teacher 2] Davion Markel Flanagan.

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Mackenzie Ford Shirilla.

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Whoo!

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[walkie-talkie beeps]

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[man 2] Radio, the driver

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is breathing, unconscious.

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-Her stomach's moving. Look.
-[man 3] Oh, yeah.

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-What's your name, dear?
-My name is Mackenzie.

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[man 2] Mackenzie. Okay.

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[woman 2] I have
a 17-year-old female, Mackenzie.

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Mackenzie Shirilla.

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-Mackenzie Shirilla.
-Mackenzie Shirilla.

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She walked away. The only one alive.

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It's so unfathomable.

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How could this possibly happen?

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[laughter]

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This was no accident.

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[reporter 1] She and her boyfriend
appeared to be soulmates.

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The black box tells us
what happened, not why.

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Guess it depends on how you look at it.

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[reporter 2] The real question is,
was this a horrific accident

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or was this murder?

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[music fades]

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[Mackenzie] Hey, guys,
let's spend the day together.

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-[camera clicks]
-♪ Cameras… ♪

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[woman] Whoo!

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♪ Flashing ♪

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♪ Cameras ♪

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♪ Flashing… ♪

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[woman] It's so crazy, 'cause, like,
we had just graduated high school,

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and this is who I would hang out with
every single day.

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Every single day, I'd wake up and hang out
with a combination of these people.

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There was me,

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Kenzie,

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Davion,

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Dom,

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and my boyfriend, Bubba.

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This was the best friend group
that I've ever had in my life.

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We didn't have any worries in the world.

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♪ I don't need no flash
To know that you're a star, babe ♪

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♪ Whoa ♪

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♪ 'Cause when you walk in the room
It's obvious who you are… ♪

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[giggles]

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Hey, TikTok, we're gonna start doing
something new on here,

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and it is a food review.

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I was getting a phone call or a text
from Kenzie every day.

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"What are we doing tomorrow?
The next day?"

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"Let's do this. Dom wants to go here.
Davion wants to do this."

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♪ And they all for you… ♪

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If Davion's there, everybody's laughing.
He's the funniest guy. He was just goofy.

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♪ I don't need no… ♪

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And Dom and Kenzie, they're such a duo.

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♪ Whoa oh ♪

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♪ ' Cause when you walk in the room… ♪

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They had been together for four years.

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♪ Oh yeah ♪

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♪ Baby, they're all for you ♪

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♪ Baby, they're all for you… ♪

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[Bubba] Dom was
a very sweet, loving dude, man.

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Are you just biting me?

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He reminds me of Master Yoda
from Star Wars. He was so wise.

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The bond in the group that we had
was gonna be unstoppable.

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[Mackenzie] Rosie! Bubba!

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♪ What's up, baby? Hold up ♪

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[music stops]

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[sniffs] Like, those are my best friends
that I hang out with every single day.

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[sniffs]

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And I was just with them.

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And it's so crazy that that split second

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just, like, changed
all of our lives forever.

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[somber music playing]

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[radio bleeps]

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[man 1] Yep. Driver, 17-year-old female,
still breathing.

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Wedged in there.

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-Two are gonna be DOA.
-[man 2] Okay.

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[man 3] He's a fucking
Strongsville football player.

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He's a running back.

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[man 3 groans]

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-[woman] Okay, ten four.
-[man 1] Yeah.

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[man 3] Rest in peace, buddy.

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[woman 1] Life Flight ETA for a helicopter
is five to ten minutes.

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[man 4] This is the worst crash
I've ever seen.

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[man 3] Holy smokes. What's this?

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[man 4] Was there any alcohol or drugs
in the vehicle?

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-[man 5] Yeah.
-Yes.

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-[man 4] What? Drugs?
-Yeah, drugs.

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-[man 4] What type of drugs?
-[man 6] Weed and mushrooms.

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-[man 5] Yeah, marijuana, mushrooms.
-[man 6] Marijuana and mushrooms.

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-[man 4] Where's the drugs?
-[man 6] It's just in the pocket.

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[man 4] Take 'em out.

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[woman screams]

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[man 4] We ain't going anywhere, okay?

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-[man 7] Careful. She's gonna fall off.
-[man 1] Ten thirty-one. Gonna go.

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[man 7] This way.
Head this way. Watch your step.

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[woman 2] Confirm that.
The female's flat and collarized.

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She's rambling, not making sense.

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[man 3] Life Flight's here.

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[music stops]

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[electronic voice] Recording.

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[man 1] Is that dad?

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I need to talk to you both.

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-[clears throat] What did they tell you?
-Nothing.

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-She broke her leg.
-[man 1] She was life-flighted here.

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-Yeah, we know that.
-Yeah.

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-Was she alone?
-[man 1] No.

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-Who else?
-[man 1] You wanna sit down.

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-Oh my God.
-Oh dear.

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[man 1] What way do I say this?

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Progress and Alameda. Car into a building.
Two are deceased in the vehicle.

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Your daughter was driving.

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[father] Who died?

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[man 1] I don't know…
There's one that we don't know.

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Dom?

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-No. Stop! Let him talk.
-[man 2] Guys…

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[father whimpers]

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I think it… I think it…
What's the name you said?

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-Dom?
-Dom.

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[man 2] Uh, might be.

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-Stop. Stop!
-[father] Oh my God.

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[man 2] What's his relation to…

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-Boyfriend.
-[man 2] Yeah, then Dom was in the car.

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-Stop.
-[girl] Oh my God.

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-What?
-[girl sobs]

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-[man 2] I…
-Are you kidding me?

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[man 2] Ma'am, it's…

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-What?
-[man 2] That's where we're at right now.

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Dom is dead? Dom is dead?
Is that what you're saying to me?

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Look at me. Is Dom… Dom's dead?

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I didn't wanna believe what he was saying.
I wanted to wait for somebody to tell me…

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-I was hoping it wasn't him.
-[father] Mm-hmm.

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[father] At that point, I didn't even know
if she was conscious.

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I didn't know
what was wrong with her. I… I…

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She could have been paralyzed
for all I knew. We didn't know anything.

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She's lucky to be alive.

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But I was torn. I had a lot…

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I had some guilt
being happy for my daughter

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and knowing that Dom and Davion passed.

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[somber music playing]

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Dom and her were living together.

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There was talk of getting married.

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He was part of our family.

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Someone my daughter
was planning a life with.

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[music stops]

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[electronic voice] Recording.

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-[man 1] What's that?
-[man 2] Yes.

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-[man 3] What a fucking nightmare.
-[man 4] Go ahead and take a seat.

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[man 1] So, um…

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-Do you know what time it happened at?
-[man 1] No, we don't.

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Right now, it's so early
in the investigation that we don't know.

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-They fall asleep at the wheel?
-[man 5] Don't know.

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[man 1] We don't know that.
We don't know that. Um, so--

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So two kids are dead.

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My son's dead, another kid's dead,
and the girl's in the hospital?

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[man 1] She's in surgery right now.

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[man 3] Fuck.

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Oh my gosh.

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I didn't know what to do with myself.

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My son just died,
so I really don't know what's going on.

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Like, you're not thinking clearly,
and I didn't… It took… You're in shock.

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[woman] You wake up and your
little brother's gone at 20 years old.

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It's, like, Dom is really gone forever.

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And there's no coming back.

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He texted me at three o'clock
in the morning. "Love you, Dad."

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-He texted you at three o'clock?
-2:53.

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-[man] 2:53.
-Okay.

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[low rumbling]

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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[reporter 1] Shock and sadness
in the Strongsville community tonight

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after a car crash claimed two young lives

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and injured a third
early yesterday morning.

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[somber music playing]

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[reporter 2] Investigators say
it appears the car failed to stop

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at the end of Progress Drive,

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went across the lawn, hit a sign,
and then crashed into the building.

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I went to the crash site.

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The way it…
it went straight into the building,

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that didn't make any sense

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'cause there was no skid marks
before the impact.

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Right away, questions were going.

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Were they drunk? Did they fall asleep?
Were they on drugs? I don't know.

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[reporter 3] More than 200
tonight attended a vigil

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at the intersection
of Progress and Alameda.

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That's the location of the crash

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that killed former
Strongsville High School students

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20-year-old Dominic Russo
and 19-year-old Davion Flanagan.

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[Bubba] I was Davion's best friend.

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[Bubba on video] This is Dav.

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[Bubba] He always had a smile on his face.

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We were on the football team together.

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It didn't feel like reality
until I got to the site of the accident,

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and that's when, like, it hit.

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[Rosie] There were so many people there,

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and so many people were asking
so many questions to all of us

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'cause they were like,
"You were with them."

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"What did they take?
You know they were on something."

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They didn't even give us a second
to process what had just happened.

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[reporter] Flanagan played football

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and was planning on attending school
this fall to become a barber.

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[girl] My parents
were just trying to explain, like,

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"Davion was in a car crash."

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"He passed away."

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I started, like, screaming and crying
and, like, you know, getting really upset.

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I was like, "This isn't fair.
This isn't right."

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[music fades]

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Me and my sister and Davion
came from a little, uh, tough upbringing.

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We were all adopted from foster care.

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Davion was always the supporter
and bigger older brother.

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He was always there for me.

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No one should ever have to tell
their kids or their wife

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that their son or brother,

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um, had their life taken from them.

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It was… It was brutal.

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[reporter] The 17-year-old female driver
is listed in a critical condition,

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and police are still investigating
the cause of the crash.

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[Scott] We really were very much
praying and hoping

242
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that Mackenzie was gonna be okay.

243
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All that we know,
it was a car driving into the building.

244
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But we didn't know why.
We didn't know how.

245
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I wanna know the truth
of what happened to my son.

246
00:12:33,252 --> 00:12:35,629
[dramatic music playing]

247
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[man] I've worked on easily
over a thousand serious felony cases.

248
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This is without a doubt

249
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the most significant case
I ever worked on.

250
00:12:53,814 --> 00:12:59,195
Strongsville does not have
very much violent crime.

251
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This is a peaceful place.

252
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Their police department
wanted a prosecutor

253
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looking at this case with them.

254
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It's my goal to do everything I can

255
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to provide justice for the families

256
00:13:13,292 --> 00:13:17,922
who have so cruelly had their loved one
taken from them

257
00:13:18,506 --> 00:13:21,008
and try to figure out
what took place out there.

258
00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:22,384
[music stops]

259
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When the police arrived, they see
the interior of the car had exploded.

260
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[tense music playing]

261
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Mackenzie was still wearing her seatbelt.

262
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Her head was beneath the dashboard.

263
00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:43,405
The primary impact
was on Dominic's side of the car.

264
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Dominic was laying in the front seat,

265
00:13:47,284 --> 00:13:50,955
and Davion's laying
stacked on top of Dominic.

266
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First responders did discover

267
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a small amount of marijuana
in Mackenzie's purse.

268
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A digital scale.

269
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Also, eight grams of psilocybin mushrooms
concealed in her clothing.

270
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That was a significant
piece of information.

271
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I'm ticking through the potentials
of what could have caused this crash.

272
00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:18,774
Was it operator error?

273
00:14:19,984 --> 00:14:22,444
Was it substance abuse?

274
00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:26,532
Or could it be a much more serious felony?

275
00:14:28,492 --> 00:14:32,496
We needed to get a full picture
of who Mackenzie Shirilla was.

276
00:14:34,665 --> 00:14:35,749
[uneasy music playing]

277
00:14:35,833 --> 00:14:37,084
What?

278
00:14:39,378 --> 00:14:41,714
-[clicks tongue] Look at that.
-[cat meows]

279
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[Mackenzie gasps]

280
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[woman] Me and Kenzie
met in middle school.

281
00:14:54,977 --> 00:14:58,439
Growing up, we jumped from house to house
'cause we lived so close.

282
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She was like a sister to me.

283
00:15:03,819 --> 00:15:05,154
She's fun,

284
00:15:06,196 --> 00:15:07,197
loving,

285
00:15:09,158 --> 00:15:10,326
an amazing friend.

286
00:15:11,410 --> 00:15:13,370
She would stick up for you.

287
00:15:16,123 --> 00:15:19,877
I remember at school,
I was bullied a little bit.

288
00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:24,798
And Kenzie was like, "Don't talk to her
like that. That's not okay."

289
00:15:25,758 --> 00:15:27,509
She's a very loyal person.

290
00:15:29,219 --> 00:15:33,140
When I heard there was a car crash,
I tried to call Kenzie, like, 50 times.

291
00:15:33,223 --> 00:15:35,225
[tense music playing]

292
00:15:40,731 --> 00:15:42,566
And not getting a response.

293
00:15:43,233 --> 00:15:45,444
And it was immediate panic for me.

294
00:15:45,527 --> 00:15:46,820
[electronic voice] Recording.

295
00:15:51,533 --> 00:15:55,120
[Tim] The day after the crash,
police visited Mackenzie in the hospital

296
00:15:55,204 --> 00:15:59,667
to find out, is she capable
of providing any kind of statement?

297
00:16:05,297 --> 00:16:08,425
[Steve] She had a broken femur
above the knee,

298
00:16:08,509 --> 00:16:12,805
three broken ribs,
a lacerated liver, lacerated kidney.

299
00:16:12,888 --> 00:16:16,433
Th-This bone broke, snapped,
and it detached the tricep.

300
00:16:17,518 --> 00:16:21,021
And both carotid arteries
had damage to 'em from her neck snapping.

301
00:16:23,357 --> 00:16:25,150
She looked like she'd lost a fight.

302
00:16:26,694 --> 00:16:28,654
We just couldn't tell her about Dom

303
00:16:28,737 --> 00:16:30,990
'cause she was just going through so much.

304
00:16:31,532 --> 00:16:33,617
The police started asking her questions.

305
00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:36,245
Then I said, "Wait.
I think we need to get a lawyer."

306
00:16:36,328 --> 00:16:39,707
'Cause you'd said, "Don't say anything
to them without getting a lawyer."

307
00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:42,376
And he goes, "Okay, we won't ask you
any more questions."

308
00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:47,631
[Steve] So then the police attempted
to get access to her cell phone.

309
00:16:48,132 --> 00:16:51,719
That's when he asked me for the passcode.
So of course we gave it.

310
00:16:54,221 --> 00:16:56,765
Go ahead. Go search whatever you want.

311
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[Tim] In this day and age, your cell phone
contains a treasure trove of evidence.

312
00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:08,610
We are looking
for evidence of intoxication,

313
00:17:09,361 --> 00:17:11,447
communication with people.

314
00:17:11,530 --> 00:17:16,118
Social media posts would give some insight
into the events leading up to the crash.

315
00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:17,661
[indistinct chatter]

316
00:17:18,328 --> 00:17:19,329
[music fades]

317
00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:22,791
[Mackenzie] And then I got ready
to hang out with my friends again.

318
00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:24,084
Oh my God, Skims baddie.

319
00:17:24,168 --> 00:17:26,795
She's got the metallic swimsuit. So cute.

320
00:17:26,879 --> 00:17:30,215
We actually went in the lake pretty deep
'cause it was, like, so hot.

321
00:17:30,883 --> 00:17:32,801
[Rosie] In high school
is when I met Kenzie.

322
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:34,636
[tense music playing]

323
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,389
We started commenting
on each other's Instagrams

324
00:17:37,473 --> 00:17:39,808
before we even
talked to each other in person.

325
00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:44,354
We would, like, comment,
DM back and forth, or Snapchat.

326
00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:46,732
[school bell rings]

327
00:17:46,815 --> 00:17:50,277
She'd make cute little TikTok videos
of her trying on outfits.

328
00:17:52,571 --> 00:17:55,032
She would come to school
with a purse instead of a bag,

329
00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:56,867
which I thought was really cute.

330
00:17:58,118 --> 00:18:00,662
I got along with her well.
I'm like, "You're cute."

331
00:18:00,746 --> 00:18:03,624
She's like, "You're cute."
I'm like, "We get along so well."

332
00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:11,131
When I met her, I had 200K
on TikTok and on YouTube,

333
00:18:11,215 --> 00:18:13,342
and she had, like,
a few thousand followers.

334
00:18:14,927 --> 00:18:16,553
She always wanted to be a model like me,

335
00:18:16,637 --> 00:18:19,473
so me and Kenzie would hang out
and just go do photo shoots.

336
00:18:19,556 --> 00:18:20,474
[music fades]

337
00:18:20,557 --> 00:18:22,142
[Mackenzie] Look at this place.

338
00:18:22,226 --> 00:18:25,771
I'm with Rosie right now.
We gotta do a photo shoot in this bitch.

339
00:18:28,607 --> 00:18:30,567
[Rosie] With Kenzie came Dom,
with Dom came Kenzie,

340
00:18:30,651 --> 00:18:31,735
everywhere they went.

341
00:18:33,445 --> 00:18:34,488
[poignant music playing]

342
00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:38,075
[Faythe] Dom and Kenzie,
they got together in freshman year.

343
00:18:39,910 --> 00:18:41,453
He was three years older.

344
00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:44,331
When we were younger,
it was a bit more like,

345
00:18:44,414 --> 00:18:47,292
"Hey, you're dating an older guy.
This is a lot."

346
00:18:47,376 --> 00:18:50,295
But boyfriends weren't really boyfriends
at the time.

347
00:18:50,379 --> 00:18:54,216
They were very like flings
and "Oh, I wanna flirt and have a crush."

348
00:18:54,299 --> 00:18:57,970
Okay, who's trying to dress up
and go to the Minion movie?

349
00:18:58,053 --> 00:18:59,263
'Cause that looks fun.

350
00:18:59,346 --> 00:19:02,474
We already got two people down.
Yep, me and him.

351
00:19:02,558 --> 00:19:03,517
[both chuckle]

352
00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,727
So we're ready to go. Who's coming?

353
00:19:06,228 --> 00:19:08,272
[Faythe] Dom had his own place.

354
00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:11,567
Kenzie moved in after we graduated.

355
00:19:12,484 --> 00:19:15,988
[Steve] Even though she was 17,
we felt she was mature enough to do that.

356
00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,240
[Mackenzie] I love you, baby puppy.

357
00:19:18,323 --> 00:19:21,994
They were becoming a little tight couple.
They cooked a lot together.

358
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,330
Always super healthy.
It was always organic.

359
00:19:26,790 --> 00:19:28,458
[Rosie] Dom would buy her clothes.

360
00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:29,543
Oh my God.

361
00:19:29,626 --> 00:19:31,753
That one looks like
the Skims shit but smaller.

362
00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:32,963
I got that as a backup.

363
00:19:33,046 --> 00:19:35,132
-Oh yeah, this looks really cute too.
-[Rosie] Yeah.

364
00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:37,301
-It looks like it's gonna fit me.
-[Rosie] Super cute.

365
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,678
He really loved designer stuff
and just name-brand.

366
00:19:39,761 --> 00:19:40,804
Oh my gosh.

367
00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:42,806
-Dom, no you didn't.
-What?

368
00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:45,976
-[Mackenzie] These are Guccis.
-[Rosie] Okay! Baller.

369
00:19:46,059 --> 00:19:48,687
The boy wasn't hurting for money, okay?

370
00:19:48,770 --> 00:19:52,983
I think that helped Mackenzie a little bit
because Mackenzie likes things.

371
00:19:54,943 --> 00:19:57,112
[Natalie] Kenzie loved Dom
with her whole heart.

372
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:59,948
I think she was always planning
on getting married to Dom.

373
00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:04,161
-Okay.
-[Rosie] So cute. [chuckles]

374
00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:10,459
[siren wailing]

375
00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:11,376
[music stops]

376
00:20:11,877 --> 00:20:13,253
[electronic voice] Recording.

377
00:20:14,755 --> 00:20:17,174
[Natalie] In the night,
Mackenzie asked, "Where's Dom?"

378
00:20:17,758 --> 00:20:20,594
And I had to tell her…
I had to tell her that it was him.

379
00:20:20,677 --> 00:20:23,222
That he… he didn't… he didn't make it.

380
00:20:24,389 --> 00:20:26,558
So she screamed,
and I said, "I'm so sorry."

381
00:20:26,642 --> 00:20:29,228
-She goes, "No, it's not. It's not him."
-Yeah.

382
00:20:29,311 --> 00:20:30,729
"Please go check. Go check"

383
00:20:30,812 --> 00:20:34,358
And I said, "Mackenzie, it's him,
because if it wasn't him, he'd be here."

384
00:20:35,901 --> 00:20:40,113
That was devastating to hear her.
The sound. It was gut-wrenching.

385
00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:44,243
[Natalie] Right after that,
she was asking,

386
00:20:44,326 --> 00:20:46,203
"What about Davion? Is he okay?"

387
00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:49,414
And I had to say,
"No, he didn't make it either."

388
00:20:49,498 --> 00:20:51,250
And then she was like, "Oh God."

389
00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:53,335
[tense music playing]

390
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:58,215
[Tim] We really wanted
to talk to Mackenzie

391
00:20:58,298 --> 00:21:01,051
about what took place inside that car.

392
00:21:03,804 --> 00:21:05,013
[Natalie] She remembers waking.

393
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,225
She remembers leaving the house.

394
00:21:09,434 --> 00:21:11,353
Then she remembers turning on the street.

395
00:21:13,438 --> 00:21:14,356
[music fades]

396
00:21:15,774 --> 00:21:17,067
-And then that's it.
-That's it.

397
00:21:17,150 --> 00:21:19,444
She was trying to remember.
Like, she's trying.

398
00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:22,406
I'm like, "Mackenzie, you can't.
It's just not there."

399
00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:28,954
[Mackenzie] I'm not doing okay, like…

400
00:21:29,538 --> 00:21:32,624
It doesn't feel real. I keep saying this,
but it doesn't feel real.

401
00:21:32,708 --> 00:21:34,376
I don't know what the fuck happened.

402
00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:35,335
[voice recorder beeps]

403
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:38,380
Thank you for being there for me.

404
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,633
It just means a lot.
Like, I don't remember anything.

405
00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:44,136
-Like, this is just the worst.
-[voice recorder beeps]

406
00:21:44,219 --> 00:21:47,222
I can see how someone
could have some amnesia

407
00:21:47,723 --> 00:21:49,433
from the… the impact of the crash.

408
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:53,437
But the timing just seemed really

409
00:21:54,521 --> 00:21:55,355
perfect.

410
00:21:55,439 --> 00:22:00,527
I don't understand how your amnesia
just lasted the exact right amount of time

411
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:03,655
to not be able to help the police
with their investigation.

412
00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:06,283
[electronic voice] Recording.

413
00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:11,038
[man] Hey, guys.

414
00:22:11,121 --> 00:22:13,915
[Tim] A couple of days after the crash,

415
00:22:13,999 --> 00:22:17,669
two friends of Davion showed up
at the Strongsville Police Department

416
00:22:19,004 --> 00:22:22,632
and told them
that they could provide some information.

417
00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:26,386
We can literally see where Davion has been

418
00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:28,847
for the past
however long you need to know.

419
00:22:28,930 --> 00:22:29,973
[man] Okay.

420
00:22:30,057 --> 00:22:34,311
[Tim] One of the boys
had an app on his phone called Life360

421
00:22:34,394 --> 00:22:37,522
that was connected to Davion's phone,

422
00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:42,110
where you can monitor
each other's location via GPS.

423
00:22:42,611 --> 00:22:44,571
-[friend 1] I wanna show you.
-[man] Explain it.

424
00:22:44,654 --> 00:22:47,240
[friend 1] This is when they were going
down on Progress Drive.

425
00:22:47,324 --> 00:22:52,162
It shows on this app
Davion was on his phone at 5:35.

426
00:22:52,245 --> 00:22:55,290
-[man] Okay.
-And it says that they crashed at 5:36.

427
00:22:56,541 --> 00:23:00,045
[friend 2] Before that,
they went to a little gathering or party.

428
00:23:00,128 --> 00:23:02,214
-[officer] Graduation party.
-[friend 2] Yeah.

429
00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:04,758
[friend 1] They might have
been on psychedelics.

430
00:23:04,841 --> 00:23:05,759
[officer] Mm-hmm.

431
00:23:05,842 --> 00:23:07,302
[uneasy music playing]

432
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,721
[Tim] This was secondhand information

433
00:23:09,805 --> 00:23:13,058
that there were
drugs of some sort involved

434
00:23:13,141 --> 00:23:15,352
at graduate parties the night before.

435
00:23:16,019 --> 00:23:20,607
Maybe they were on the psychedelics
and she hit the gas…

436
00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:23,652
[officer] All right, guys, thank you.
Appreciate you coming in.

437
00:23:24,486 --> 00:23:28,323
We sent Mackenzie's blood sample
to a lab out of state

438
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:30,450
because they do not, at our local lab,

439
00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:34,079
test for the psilocybin, for the presence
of that in someone's blood.

440
00:23:39,334 --> 00:23:41,628
But looking at Mackenzie's phone,

441
00:23:41,711 --> 00:23:45,549
there was evidence
of her tripping on mushrooms.

442
00:23:47,759 --> 00:23:50,929
And it seemed to be
almost a daily ritual for her

443
00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:53,056
to smoke marijuana from a bong…

444
00:23:53,140 --> 00:23:54,724
[mellow music playing]

445
00:23:54,808 --> 00:23:57,352
…with her camera propped up
in her clothing closet.

446
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:03,692
There were some photographs
of her using marijuana

447
00:24:03,775 --> 00:24:07,571
in just the days
or even the day before the crash.

448
00:24:11,908 --> 00:24:16,997
There was multiple videos of her
smoking marijuana and driving that car.

449
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:17,956
[music fades]

450
00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:20,459
[Steve] I knew. I don't have a problem
with her smoking dope.

451
00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:23,503
I don't have a problem with me smoking it,
with you smoking it.

452
00:24:23,587 --> 00:24:26,882
If you're gonna take a drug,
that's the one I believe you should take.

453
00:24:26,965 --> 00:24:30,427
It's… It's better than alcohol.
It's better than all the other crap.

454
00:24:30,510 --> 00:24:31,678
She's not shooting up.

455
00:24:31,761 --> 00:24:33,763
[mellow music playing]

456
00:24:34,556 --> 00:24:38,310
[Rosie] As typical high schoolers do,
we were kind of, like, the stoners.

457
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,106
It would just be back-to-back fun.

458
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:45,525
-[Mackenzie] I cannot.
-[Rosie] Okay. State your names.

459
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:47,444
It's a TikTok.
We don't have that much time.

460
00:24:47,527 --> 00:24:49,738
-I'm Rosie.
-Okay. Hi, my name's Kenzie.

461
00:24:49,821 --> 00:24:52,115
-[Rosie] How are you feeling?
-How am I feeling?

462
00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:53,992
Well, I'm always pimpin'.

463
00:24:54,075 --> 00:24:58,079
-My name's Bubba. I weigh 245 pounds.
-[laughter]

464
00:24:58,163 --> 00:24:59,498
-I'm feeling good.
-[Davion] Damn!

465
00:24:59,581 --> 00:25:01,791
I haven't ate a damn thing
at all today though.

466
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:03,168
[Rosie] How you guys feeling?

467
00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:07,005
[giggling] I'm geeking. This is crazy!

468
00:25:07,088 --> 00:25:07,964
[music fades]

469
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,176
[Scott] Davion would say to us,
"All the kids are doing it."

470
00:25:11,259 --> 00:25:12,802
"They're all smoking weed."

471
00:25:13,303 --> 00:25:19,476
Me and my wife, Jaime, pushed back
on the narrative that weed is innocent.

472
00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:22,979
"Weed isn't addictive.
Weed's not a gateway drug, Dad."

473
00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:25,315
[indistinct announcer]

474
00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:28,777
In high school,
football was Davion's number-one passion.

475
00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:30,612
[crowd cheering]

476
00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:34,157
-[man on PA] Davion Flanagan.
-[whistle blares]

477
00:25:34,241 --> 00:25:39,079
But four games into his senior season,
he tore his ACL and his UCL,

478
00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:43,959
and he pretty much was told
that his football aspirations

479
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:47,420
for college and beyond
was over at this point.

480
00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:50,715
I think that's when he started to hang out
with some different people,

481
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,554
different crowds, started experimenting
with illegal substances.

482
00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:57,931
[rock music playing]

483
00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:01,977
[laughter]

484
00:26:06,731 --> 00:26:07,649
[music stops]

485
00:26:07,732 --> 00:26:10,068
He'd come home late, and I would say,

486
00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:12,571
"Show me your friends,
and I'll show you your future, Davion."

487
00:26:13,238 --> 00:26:15,448
[Davion] Oh! Oh shit!

488
00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:17,117
♪ …roof down for the ride… ♪

489
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,368
"Please stop."

490
00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:21,746
♪ Do you want to drive? ♪

491
00:26:22,372 --> 00:26:25,875
I think he was just being
a selfish teenager at that point,

492
00:26:25,959 --> 00:26:28,545
like, "Oh, I hate my parents"
type of situation,

493
00:26:28,628 --> 00:26:31,464
where you don't hate them,
you just don't like to follow rules.

494
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:40,181
You can absolutely drive yourself insane
thinking about the what-ifs.

495
00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:43,226
Could we have done something differently?

496
00:26:43,893 --> 00:26:47,022
If Davion had listened to us,
maybe he never would've been in that car.

497
00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:48,773
[somber music playing]

498
00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:56,406
[Christine] This one over here,
that's my son David,

499
00:26:56,489 --> 00:26:59,200
and he's kissing Dom, which is just…

500
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:00,619
It melts my heart.

501
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,289
Um, you couldn't buy this picture off me
for a million bucks.

502
00:27:04,372 --> 00:27:05,540
It means the world to me.

503
00:27:07,334 --> 00:27:09,085
He loved his nieces and nephews.

504
00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:14,049
He was there for everything,
every family holiday.

505
00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:16,051
We're a really close family.

506
00:27:16,718 --> 00:27:19,012
-That's part of the worst part.
-[music fades]

507
00:27:19,095 --> 00:27:21,306
He didn't get to see my kids grow up.

508
00:27:23,391 --> 00:27:25,977
You know, you're thinking about your son,

509
00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:28,730
and all of a sudden,
everything leads back to the crash.

510
00:27:29,481 --> 00:27:32,108
In my head, that's just where it goes.
That's where my mind takes me.

511
00:27:32,192 --> 00:27:35,487
What happened? What happened in the car?
What happened? You know?

512
00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:38,239
[tense music playing]

513
00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:48,792
[Tim] We knew
that the night before the crash,

514
00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:53,171
Mackenzie, Dom, and Davion
went to a party.

515
00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:05,308
On the way, there were some text messages
between Mackenzie…

516
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,149
and Rosie Graham.

517
00:28:15,110 --> 00:28:17,779
[Rosie] I was just texting her
to bring over some weed for the night.

518
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:21,491
We were also talking
about doing the mushrooms,

519
00:28:21,574 --> 00:28:24,411
which is why they brought them
and had them in the car with them.

520
00:28:27,747 --> 00:28:30,834
Rosie would have been
the most likely source of information

521
00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:34,963
on what was going on in Mackenzie's mind
leading up to the crash.

522
00:28:35,046 --> 00:28:36,464
[outgoing call ringing]

523
00:28:36,548 --> 00:28:39,342
[Rosie] The police called
to set up an interview,

524
00:28:39,843 --> 00:28:41,970
and I was like, "I'm not doing it."

525
00:28:42,053 --> 00:28:43,304
[music fades]

526
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:46,599
People always say
the police will try to say crazy things,

527
00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:48,893
especially if you're alone
and you're a teenager.

528
00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:52,063
It doesn't seem like we're trying to
figure out what happened in the accident.

529
00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:55,734
It seems like we're trying
to track down the next drug dealers.

530
00:28:55,817 --> 00:29:00,363
You have no idea how hard I tried
to get Rosie Graham to talk to me,

531
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,198
to cooperate with me.

532
00:29:02,282 --> 00:29:04,784
But it's good to hear
that she talked to you guys.

533
00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:07,954
I'm fascinated to hear
what she has to say.

534
00:29:08,037 --> 00:29:10,039
[tense music playing]

535
00:29:16,629 --> 00:29:19,090
[Rosie] First of all,
it wasn't a party at all.

536
00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:21,176
Because in my opinion,
and everybody that was there,

537
00:29:21,259 --> 00:29:22,969
we call that a sleepover.

538
00:29:23,052 --> 00:29:26,097
And that was just a friend sleepover
that we would normally do.

539
00:29:28,433 --> 00:29:31,895
I brought, like, a coloring book
and, like, colored pencils.

540
00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:35,982
We were watching YouTube videos.

541
00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:42,113
[Bubba] Me, Dav, and Dom,
we were watching a shark documentary.

542
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:44,365
Stupid shit on the TV.

543
00:29:46,534 --> 00:29:48,995
A couple of times,
we'd go out and smack the bong.

544
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:54,083
[Rosie] We were having deep conversations
and just sitting around.

545
00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:56,544
And we were also talking
about doing the mushrooms.

546
00:29:56,628 --> 00:30:00,048
But then by the time they got over,
it was, like, 12:00 a.m.,

547
00:30:00,131 --> 00:30:01,925
and we're all like, "It's too late."

548
00:30:02,634 --> 00:30:03,927
[interviewer] So no mushrooms?

549
00:30:04,427 --> 00:30:07,514
Um, yeah, we were all just kind of like,
"It's really late,"

550
00:30:07,597 --> 00:30:11,142
and we had, like, weed to smoke,
so we just smoked weed.

551
00:30:12,185 --> 00:30:14,145
Kenzie didn't even smoke that night.

552
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:17,232
She was on a smoke break
'cause she was coughing up black mucus

553
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:19,776
or bloody mucus,
something that was really bad.

554
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:23,655
[Rosie] Kenzie was sleeping
by, like, 3:00 a.m.

555
00:30:25,406 --> 00:30:28,117
All I remember
is Dom just petting her head all night

556
00:30:28,201 --> 00:30:29,994
and cuddling up to her on the couch,

557
00:30:30,078 --> 00:30:32,497
and she was sleeping,
and he was caressing her hair.

558
00:30:32,580 --> 00:30:33,581
[music fades]

559
00:30:34,374 --> 00:30:35,416
[sighs]

560
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,462
All of us all had plans that next day
to go out and do stuff.

561
00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:43,049
There was not one argument.
There was not one moment of tension.

562
00:30:43,132 --> 00:30:47,011
There was not one bad vibe
towards anybody.

563
00:30:47,095 --> 00:30:49,138
[tense music playing]

564
00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:53,184
And then, really early in the morning,
around 5:00, Dom came into the kitchen,

565
00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:55,395
and I was like, "Are you guys leaving?"

566
00:30:57,188 --> 00:31:00,441
[Bubba] And it was right before they left,
me and Davion were talking.

567
00:31:00,525 --> 00:31:03,528
He was supposed to work on my truck
with me the next morning.

568
00:31:03,611 --> 00:31:05,864
And I offered to take him home.

569
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:07,949
It was set
that he was coming home with me.

570
00:31:08,032 --> 00:31:10,618
And, like, last minute, he goes,

571
00:31:10,702 --> 00:31:13,079
"I wanna shower
and maybe sleep for a little bit."

572
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:18,501
For some reason, he gave me a hug
and goes, "I love you."

573
00:31:18,585 --> 00:31:19,836
I was like, "Love you too, bro."

574
00:31:19,919 --> 00:31:23,381
Very weird. It was the first time
we said we loved each other for a while.

575
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:28,595
[music fades]

576
00:31:31,764 --> 00:31:35,268
At that point, when they left the house,
you have this black hole.

577
00:31:35,351 --> 00:31:39,022
The, uh, lack of knowing
what took place inside that car.

578
00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:45,862
But then
Strongsville Police Department called me

579
00:31:45,945 --> 00:31:48,364
about some of the video evidence
that they had uncovered.

580
00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:52,952
[tense music playing]

581
00:31:59,584 --> 00:32:01,336
I'm Trooper Elliot Rawson.

582
00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:06,132
I serve as a crash-reconstruction trooper
with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

583
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:13,556
We had obtained surveillance camera video

584
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,892
of the final moments
leading up to the event.

585
00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:21,814
All right, so this is
the first camera vantage point, um,

586
00:32:21,898 --> 00:32:25,026
from the intersection
of Progress Road at Pearl Road.

587
00:32:26,903 --> 00:32:29,739
Here, we can see
the Toyota traveling southbound,

588
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:32,533
and it begins to make a right turn.

589
00:32:34,661 --> 00:32:37,413
[mouse clicking]

590
00:32:37,497 --> 00:32:40,458
As it traveled west
for nearly a half mile…

591
00:32:42,543 --> 00:32:44,212
there was a slight bend

592
00:32:44,295 --> 00:32:46,714
where the second piece
of video evidence comes from.

593
00:32:47,215 --> 00:32:50,426
The camera was located
on the southern face of this building,

594
00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:51,719
pointing southwest.

595
00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:00,687
Based on my calculations,

596
00:33:00,770 --> 00:33:03,731
the Toyota averaged
approximately 97.8 miles per hour

597
00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:06,442
through this stretch right here.

598
00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:10,989
That's beyond unsafe speed
for the roadway and conditions.

599
00:33:15,535 --> 00:33:18,496
At this point,
the Toyota enters the intersection

600
00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:21,708
where it struck the corner
of the commercial building.

601
00:33:23,793 --> 00:33:24,752
[music fades]

602
00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:29,173
[engine roars]

603
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:31,259
[tires screeching]

604
00:33:31,342 --> 00:33:34,804
[car crashing]

605
00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:41,644
My first thoughts…

606
00:33:42,395 --> 00:33:43,980
It was just chilling.

607
00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:52,238
If… If anybody was awake and alert
inside that car,

608
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:56,576
what a horrific last few seconds

609
00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:58,995
they endured.

610
00:33:59,078 --> 00:34:01,998
It was hard to comprehend that someone

611
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:05,585
could just drive into a wall
at that kind of speed.

612
00:34:07,795 --> 00:34:13,051
I looked back at the video of Mackenzie
turning from Pearl Road onto Progress.

613
00:34:15,178 --> 00:34:16,429
It just didn't add up.

614
00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:21,100
It was not someone
who's driving with the music loud,

615
00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:22,935
throwing beer cans out of the car.

616
00:34:23,019 --> 00:34:25,730
This turning was controlled
and deliberate.

617
00:34:25,813 --> 00:34:27,815
[ominous music playing]

618
00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:34,363
And then when we get
the blood toxicology back,

619
00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:38,076
the blood test indicated no alcohol.

620
00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:44,123
They did find THC, the active chemical
contained in marijuana.

621
00:34:47,210 --> 00:34:51,380
But this was not someone
who was unfamiliar with driving

622
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,466
under the effects of marijuana.

623
00:34:57,637 --> 00:35:00,014
But the most significant piece of evidence

624
00:35:00,807 --> 00:35:02,809
was that she has no psilocybin
in her system.

625
00:35:05,061 --> 00:35:08,189
So this was not
some sort of party gone wrong.

626
00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:13,486
She wasn't high on psilocybin
when she crashed.

627
00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:16,239
That ended that rabbit hole.

628
00:35:16,322 --> 00:35:17,156
[music fades]

629
00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,117
Now we know this isn't impaired driving.

630
00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:23,204
What else would help explain this crash?

631
00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:27,291
Was something tampered with?

632
00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:30,545
Or did the car malfunction in some way?

633
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:34,590
The police did observe
a fuzzy Prada slipper

634
00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:38,553
that appeared to be stuck
to the floorboard

635
00:35:38,636 --> 00:35:41,264
next to the accelerator pedal.

636
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:42,640
[somber music playing]

637
00:35:42,723 --> 00:35:44,725
Had that contributed to the crash?

638
00:35:46,727 --> 00:35:50,940
We needed to retain
a forensic auto investigator

639
00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:53,860
to do a complete analysis of that car.

640
00:35:57,196 --> 00:35:59,198
[tense music playing]

641
00:36:01,617 --> 00:36:04,620
[reporter 1] This Strongsville community
is devastated.

642
00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:06,998
The cause of that crash is unclear.

643
00:36:07,081 --> 00:36:09,876
[reporter 2] Police say
speed was one of the factors.

644
00:36:09,959 --> 00:36:12,587
[Scott] The police would contact us
at least once a week

645
00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:14,213
and give us an update.

646
00:36:14,755 --> 00:36:16,591
But they held a lot back as well

647
00:36:17,091 --> 00:36:19,927
because they needed
to keep their cards close to their vest.

648
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:20,887
[music stops]

649
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:27,059
And then I saw an Instagram post
that was sent to Mackenzie from a brand

650
00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:29,312
a day or two after the crash.

651
00:36:29,395 --> 00:36:31,689
[tense music playing]

652
00:36:32,773 --> 00:36:37,361
"We love this look. Can we use this post
on our website and emails?"

653
00:36:37,904 --> 00:36:40,114
It's answered by Mackenzie's mother,

654
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:43,534
Natalie Shirilla.

655
00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:45,995
"Thank you for this amazing opportunity."

656
00:36:46,078 --> 00:36:48,289
"She would love if you would use that."

657
00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:51,792
"She's actually been trying
to contact you guys for PR email."

658
00:36:52,293 --> 00:36:53,878
"It was a tragic accident."

659
00:36:53,961 --> 00:36:58,507
"This is just as painful for her
as it is for everybody else."

660
00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:02,428
"Or maybe even a little more painful."

661
00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:06,057
[music fades]

662
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:08,643
Then Mackenzie responds.

663
00:37:09,268 --> 00:37:11,520
"Thank you for the comment.
I would love to work with you."

664
00:37:11,604 --> 00:37:15,191
"I've been emailing you guys a lot.
Such a great opportunity. Thank you."

665
00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:19,070
The only term that comes to mind
is tone-deaf.

666
00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:24,617
Like, she just doesn't get
how much anguish she's caused.

667
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:26,953
No one in their right mind

668
00:37:27,036 --> 00:37:29,956
would post about being thrilled
about this opportunity

669
00:37:30,039 --> 00:37:34,126
after they just killed two people
in a horrific accident.

670
00:37:34,627 --> 00:37:38,047
It just felt off.

671
00:37:39,882 --> 00:37:40,800
[cell phone beeps]

672
00:37:41,884 --> 00:37:44,553
[Davyne] I got a DM
on Instagram from Mackenzie.

673
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,723
She said, basically, "I'm sorry."

674
00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:52,228
"Davion was like a brother to me.
It was all an accident. I didn't mean to."

675
00:37:52,311 --> 00:37:55,314
She wanted to get her peace out of it.

676
00:37:55,815 --> 00:37:58,359
At the end of the day,
I didn't feel like I needed to respond

677
00:37:58,442 --> 00:38:00,027
to someone who killed my brother.

678
00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:01,821
[tense music playing]

679
00:38:04,031 --> 00:38:06,951
Me and Mackenzie,
we went to the same school,

680
00:38:08,494 --> 00:38:10,955
but we were in a different year.

681
00:38:11,455 --> 00:38:15,251
Dude, why is the lighting in here
fucking terrible? Like, what the fuck?

682
00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:19,422
[Davyne] I already had,
like, my opinion on her,

683
00:38:19,505 --> 00:38:22,300
and I'd expressed that
to Davion privately.

684
00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:23,551
[Mackenzie] I'm not even cool.

685
00:38:23,634 --> 00:38:27,013
I'm just one of those girls
that can do a lot of drugs and not die.

686
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:29,807
She gave off this persona and this act

687
00:38:29,890 --> 00:38:32,643
of being, like, high up
and better than everyone else.

688
00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:35,646
I don't like when people
talk about the world,

689
00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:38,607
and they're like, "We're all gonna be dead
in 60 years anyways."

690
00:38:38,691 --> 00:38:41,736
Please go fucking kill yourself.
Yep, I said it. Go die, bitch.

691
00:38:45,197 --> 00:38:47,616
[Davyne] I heard
people would steer away from her

692
00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,827
because she got very aggressive

693
00:38:49,910 --> 00:38:52,580
and could bully people
and talk bad about people.

694
00:39:02,882 --> 00:39:05,968
The school records showed
one incident after the next

695
00:39:06,052 --> 00:39:09,930
of disrespect to teachers
and fellow students.

696
00:39:13,976 --> 00:39:16,020
You just get a general picture of someone

697
00:39:16,103 --> 00:39:20,316
who does not have
a lot of adult oversight.

698
00:39:20,399 --> 00:39:21,525
[bell rings]

699
00:39:21,609 --> 00:39:22,568
[music fades]

700
00:39:22,651 --> 00:39:24,111
[Steve] There was an incident.

701
00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:26,405
They suspended her
for the last day of school.

702
00:39:26,489 --> 00:39:28,115
I had to get off work and come get her.

703
00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,743
I walked in. I looked at my daughter,
and she's sobbing.

704
00:39:30,826 --> 00:39:32,995
I go, "Did you do it?"
She looked at me and goes, "No."

705
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:34,413
And I know when my daughter lies.

706
00:39:34,497 --> 00:39:37,166
I go, "Good enough for me. Let's go."
And I walked her out.

707
00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:40,920
[Mackenzie laughs]

708
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:47,093
[Tim] Her parents would offer excuses
for her behavior.

709
00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:51,305
And typically Mackenzie would walk away
from those negative interactions at school

710
00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:54,892
with more freedom, less consequences,

711
00:39:54,975 --> 00:39:58,437
and her actions
being completely excused away.

712
00:39:58,521 --> 00:40:00,356
Am I a perfect parent? No.

713
00:40:00,439 --> 00:40:01,857
-Nobody is.
-No one is. No one is.

714
00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:04,860
-Have I made mistakes with my kids? Sure.
-Sure.

715
00:40:04,944 --> 00:40:06,570
It's… It's life, you know?

716
00:40:06,654 --> 00:40:09,407
But she wasn't a bad kid.
She didn't need to be disciplined a lot.

717
00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:12,451
You know, she… I mean…
The only… Her worst is her mouth.

718
00:40:14,203 --> 00:40:18,541
If any of you think
that that party situation is my fault,

719
00:40:18,624 --> 00:40:21,001
you can go fuck yourself
and leave my story.

720
00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:23,212
Right now. Yeah.

721
00:40:23,295 --> 00:40:26,966
Because we let
all you underage little fucks

722
00:40:27,049 --> 00:40:28,801
inside our beautiful home

723
00:40:28,884 --> 00:40:30,678
just to do illegal things.

724
00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:32,096
[tense music playing]

725
00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:37,518
[Tim] Looking at all of the information
we had from her phone,

726
00:40:37,601 --> 00:40:41,439
I felt like I started to see
who Mackenzie really was.

727
00:40:46,694 --> 00:40:51,574
And then we got back the results
from the forensic auto investigator.

728
00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:55,661
And that expert
determined that the braking,

729
00:40:56,162 --> 00:40:57,371
the steering,

730
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:58,414
the tires,

731
00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:01,208
the acceleration

732
00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:04,003
were working properly.

733
00:41:05,004 --> 00:41:07,131
The car didn't malfunction.

734
00:41:07,756 --> 00:41:08,674
[music fades]

735
00:41:08,757 --> 00:41:10,593
And in his professional opinion,

736
00:41:10,676 --> 00:41:15,055
the slipper was stuck to the floorboard
because of the impact.

737
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:18,434
The floorboard had actually crumpled
around the slipper.

738
00:41:18,517 --> 00:41:21,437
So it had no contribution to the crash.

739
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,023
That it was simply a result of the crash.

740
00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:31,363
Now we needed the information
off of the event data recorder.

741
00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:33,449
[tense music playing]

742
00:41:39,622 --> 00:41:41,040
[camera clicking]

743
00:41:41,123 --> 00:41:43,459
[man] The EDR,
the electronic data recording system.

744
00:41:43,542 --> 00:41:46,337
Most people think of it as like
being the black box in the airplane.

745
00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:51,884
In this case, there's approximately
five seconds of pre-crash data.

746
00:41:57,973 --> 00:42:02,478
For the entire five seconds,
the accelerator pedal was at 100%.

747
00:42:02,978 --> 00:42:06,774
There was no taking off
or lightening up on the accelerator pedal.

748
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:08,901
It was completely pressed
all the way down.

749
00:42:08,984 --> 00:42:10,694
[engine revs]

750
00:42:10,778 --> 00:42:12,780
[tense music builds]

751
00:42:21,997 --> 00:42:25,334
Most people would want to slow the vehicle
or stop the vehicle

752
00:42:25,417 --> 00:42:27,086
to avoid that type of an impact.

753
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,381
But in this case, there was no braking.

754
00:42:33,801 --> 00:42:35,803
[ominous music playing]

755
00:42:44,812 --> 00:42:47,356
The data shows that
around three seconds before the impact,

756
00:42:47,439 --> 00:42:49,358
there was some steering input.

757
00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:53,571
Right movement, left movement,
and then a hard right movement.

758
00:42:56,949 --> 00:43:00,953
It shifted from drive into neutral,
back into drive again.

759
00:43:01,036 --> 00:43:02,788
[tires squeal]

760
00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:10,629
[music fades]

761
00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:13,340
I think the boys
were trying to save their life.

762
00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:15,801
I think Dominic and Davion
were yanking on the wheel,

763
00:43:15,884 --> 00:43:18,679
grabbing at the gear shift,
and it was just too late.

764
00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:19,805
[somber music playing]

765
00:43:22,266 --> 00:43:23,642
100% gas pedal.

766
00:43:23,726 --> 00:43:25,603
No attempt at using the brake.

767
00:43:28,105 --> 00:43:31,358
The evidence all combines together to show

768
00:43:32,651 --> 00:43:35,029
this was not an accident.

769
00:43:35,112 --> 00:43:37,114
[ominous music continues]

770
00:43:39,074 --> 00:43:40,743
Oh-ho!

771
00:43:45,623 --> 00:43:46,874
[electronic voice] Recording.

772
00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:53,213
[officer] Hello.

773
00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:55,299
[music fades]

774
00:43:56,508 --> 00:43:57,509
Over here.

775
00:43:58,218 --> 00:44:02,181
[Tim] The police conducted
numerous interviews of friends

776
00:44:02,264 --> 00:44:06,602
or people that knew Mackenzie,
Dominic, or Davion.

777
00:44:10,773 --> 00:44:13,233
-[officer] The door open or closed?
-[friend] It can stay open.

778
00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:17,071
[Tim] One of the witnesses that
came forward was a friend of Dominic's.

779
00:44:18,238 --> 00:44:20,991
[officer] We've got
a few questions for you.

780
00:44:22,201 --> 00:44:25,454
First thing is,
how long have you known Mackenzie?

781
00:44:25,954 --> 00:44:30,125
Probably when I moved to Strongsville,
so ninth grade.

782
00:44:30,209 --> 00:44:33,045
[officer] So describe the relationship.

783
00:44:33,545 --> 00:44:34,755
She would be, like…

784
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:38,050
She was like, "Oh, I love Dom so much."
This and that.

785
00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:40,094
I remember one instance

786
00:44:40,594 --> 00:44:43,764
we were all about to get on the ride,
and Dom was on a phone call.

787
00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:45,683
[riders screaming]

788
00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:48,310
She was like, "You get on this ride now."

789
00:44:48,394 --> 00:44:50,646
But he said, "I can't right now."

790
00:44:55,067 --> 00:44:58,320
And then we come back,
and she kicked Dom away from us.

791
00:44:58,404 --> 00:45:01,573
And she was just like,
"I'm about to break up with him."

792
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:03,742
She was just saying stuff like that.

793
00:45:03,826 --> 00:45:06,328
[officer] Have you ever heard
Mackenzie threaten Dom?

794
00:45:06,412 --> 00:45:08,664
We were in this candy shop, and, um…

795
00:45:08,747 --> 00:45:11,458
This was after they'd gotten over arguing
and everything.

796
00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:14,294
She was like, "Either buy me something
or shut the fuck up."

797
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:17,798
She always threatened
and was disrespectful to Dom in my eyes.

798
00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:21,009
[officer] Why did Dom put up with this?
Do you know?

799
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:24,430
Um, I've personally been told
that she did voodoo on him.

800
00:45:24,513 --> 00:45:26,098
I mean, I personally don't believe that,

801
00:45:26,181 --> 00:45:29,184
but she has told people
that she's put a spell on him

802
00:45:29,268 --> 00:45:31,603
so that he couldn't break up with her.

803
00:45:31,687 --> 00:45:33,689
[uneasy music playing]

804
00:45:34,314 --> 00:45:36,859
Dom had so much going for himself, like…

805
00:45:38,902 --> 00:45:42,364
Why does he stick with Kenzie?
He can do so much better, like.

806
00:45:43,949 --> 00:45:45,075
[officer] Okay.

807
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:48,287
I'm gonna let the prosecutor know
that you came down to talk to us.

808
00:45:48,787 --> 00:45:50,330
Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

809
00:45:50,414 --> 00:45:51,373
[music fades]

810
00:45:55,377 --> 00:45:56,545
[officer clears throat]

811
00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:03,510
[Tim] I had to try to figure out
what was going on here.

812
00:46:04,386 --> 00:46:08,140
I reviewed years of text messages
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

813
00:46:08,223 --> 00:46:10,225
[tense music playing]

814
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:13,437
One day they'd be in love with each other.

815
00:46:14,229 --> 00:46:17,399
The next day,
they would be at odds over something.

816
00:46:32,748 --> 00:46:35,667
[Faythe] In the beginning
of Dom and Kenzie's relationship,

817
00:46:36,251 --> 00:46:38,879
I told Kenzie, "Hey,
your boyfriend just cheated on you

818
00:46:38,962 --> 00:46:40,214
with one of our best friends."

819
00:46:40,297 --> 00:46:41,548
[music stops]

820
00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:44,885
I felt terrible for Kenzie.
I mean, it sucks to be cheated on.

821
00:46:46,261 --> 00:46:48,013
[uneasy music playing]

822
00:46:48,096 --> 00:46:50,682
[Mackenzie] He never, like,
just can, like, apologize on his own,

823
00:46:50,766 --> 00:46:52,976
make it up to me on his own,
get me flowers on his own.

824
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:56,814
I have to give him that little push.
Actually, no, a giant-ass fucking push.

825
00:46:56,897 --> 00:47:00,275
I have to shove him off a fucking
60-foot diving fucking board type shit.

826
00:47:04,196 --> 00:47:07,032
Moving forward in their relationship,
it caused a lot of trust issues.

827
00:47:07,115 --> 00:47:10,369
Her to be like, "Hey, who are you with?
What are you doing?"

828
00:47:19,962 --> 00:47:22,714
It was a high-school relationship.
There's gonna be fights.

829
00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:24,800
There's gonna be up and down moments.

830
00:47:24,883 --> 00:47:27,803
None of them were ever held seriously.

831
00:47:27,886 --> 00:47:31,348
I was with them every single day,
and it wasn't daily arguments.

832
00:47:31,431 --> 00:47:33,517
It wasn't, uh, weekly arguments.

833
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,311
It wasn't even like
anything crazy like that.

834
00:47:39,606 --> 00:47:41,316
Mackenzie loved her life a lot,

835
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,152
and she really liked
what she had going on with Dom.

836
00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:47,823
[Frank] Dom was gonna make it.
That's for sure.

837
00:47:47,906 --> 00:47:50,826
He used to trade stocks.
He traded cryptocurrencies.

838
00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:55,205
He was opening an LLC
to sell all the vape stuff.

839
00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:57,332
[Mackenzie] Look how cute you look
with your hair.

840
00:47:57,416 --> 00:47:58,709
Trying to get a clothing line.

841
00:47:59,293 --> 00:48:03,046
I don't know how I'ma take this seriously.
It all depends if Clay's playing better.

842
00:48:04,339 --> 00:48:06,258
[Frank] He had goals,
and he was gonna reach 'em.

843
00:48:06,341 --> 00:48:07,342
[Mackenzie] Whoo!

844
00:48:07,426 --> 00:48:08,302
[music fades]

845
00:48:08,385 --> 00:48:09,928
And prior to Dom passing,

846
00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:13,599
you had said for about a year,
"I need to spend more time with Dominic."

847
00:48:13,682 --> 00:48:14,516
Right.

848
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:18,020
The last couple of years,
we had tried to spend time together,

849
00:48:18,103 --> 00:48:19,605
but he was always with Kenzie.

850
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:23,233
I just don't know why I forgot.
I was just too stressed out about prom.

851
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:24,693
[Dom] You're dumb as fuck.

852
00:48:26,111 --> 00:48:27,905
-[Dom laughs]
-[Mackenzie laughs]

853
00:48:27,988 --> 00:48:29,990
[somber music playing]

854
00:48:34,328 --> 00:48:36,705
-[Natalie] When she came home…
-Crying herself to sleep.

855
00:48:36,788 --> 00:48:39,333
…she was either in bed,
at the memorial, or at the grave site.

856
00:48:39,416 --> 00:48:41,209
-At the grave site.
-Every day. Every day.

857
00:48:41,293 --> 00:48:44,963
[Mackenzie cries]

858
00:48:46,798 --> 00:48:49,760
Kenzie contacted me
through text, basically,

859
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:51,887
and then face-to-face also.

860
00:48:53,138 --> 00:48:55,223
She said she was sorry. Yeah.

861
00:48:55,724 --> 00:48:57,726
[Christine] I felt bad for her.
I just kept thinking,

862
00:48:57,809 --> 00:49:01,146
"She killed the love of her life
and a friend."

863
00:49:01,647 --> 00:49:02,981
I felt terrible for her.

864
00:49:14,409 --> 00:49:17,245
[Frank] I said, "Kenzie, it's okay.
You gotta try to get through it."

865
00:49:17,329 --> 00:49:20,874
It is what we were all trying to do,
and I was trying to be helpful to her too.

866
00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:23,585
It might not work for me.
It does sometimes, but…

867
00:49:23,669 --> 00:49:25,420
-Anything.
-Okay, Dom, are you here?

868
00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,466
Look. I'm not moving my arm. That's a yes.

869
00:49:30,592 --> 00:49:32,302
Do you have a message for Kenzie?

870
00:49:34,596 --> 00:49:35,597
L.

871
00:49:40,686 --> 00:49:41,687
O.

872
00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:47,943
-V.
-[sobs]

873
00:49:48,026 --> 00:49:49,027
Love.

874
00:49:53,407 --> 00:49:55,492
[Kenzie] I miss him so much.

875
00:49:58,829 --> 00:50:00,580
[Kenzie cries]

876
00:50:00,664 --> 00:50:03,083
I love you too, Dominic. [cries]

877
00:50:03,166 --> 00:50:04,001
[music fades]

878
00:50:04,084 --> 00:50:07,879
We were also getting heat from the family
who didn't think it was an accident,

879
00:50:07,963 --> 00:50:10,090
not to talk to her.

880
00:50:10,173 --> 00:50:12,384
My ex-wife, Dominic's mother,
wouldn't talk to her.

881
00:50:12,467 --> 00:50:14,302
You really can't blame her, you know.

882
00:50:14,386 --> 00:50:16,430
We did not know things that they knew.

883
00:50:16,930 --> 00:50:18,181
[electronic voice] Recording.

884
00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:24,938
[Tim] In September of 2022,

885
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,900
Dominic's brother Angelo
met with detectives.

886
00:50:28,984 --> 00:50:30,527
[somber music playing]

887
00:50:30,610 --> 00:50:32,529
[Frank] Dominic and Angelo
were really close.

888
00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:36,324
They lived next door to each other,
so Angelo's seen a lot more than we did.

889
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,663
[officer] So mostly what I'm interested in

890
00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:45,250
is the relationship
between Mackenzie and Dominic.

891
00:50:45,751 --> 00:50:49,296
[Angelo] Dom tried to break up with her
multiple times, even in July.

892
00:50:49,379 --> 00:50:52,257
It kept not working out, whatever.
They kept making back up.

893
00:50:55,510 --> 00:50:58,472
Dom would have to call Kenzie's parents,
call her mom and stuff,

894
00:50:58,555 --> 00:51:01,099
and say, "You need to come
get Kenzie outta here."

895
00:51:01,183 --> 00:51:03,685
"She's refusing to leave my house.
She's being crazy."

896
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:06,938
[Tim] Dominic's brother told police
he was convinced

897
00:51:07,022 --> 00:51:09,066
that from conversations
he had with Dominic,

898
00:51:09,149 --> 00:51:10,859
that Dominic was leaving Mackenzie.

899
00:51:13,028 --> 00:51:17,574
[Angelo] For me, you know, there's
two types of love that you give somebody.

900
00:51:17,657 --> 00:51:19,826
It's like, "I love that person
unconditionally."

901
00:51:21,995 --> 00:51:25,665
And there's a type of love
that's selfish and restricted

902
00:51:25,749 --> 00:51:27,501
and "I want them all to myself."

903
00:51:27,584 --> 00:51:29,336
And that was Kenzie with Dom.

904
00:51:30,253 --> 00:51:32,672
Kenzie's, like, she's let us know

905
00:51:32,756 --> 00:51:35,801
she will never let go of Dom,

906
00:51:35,884 --> 00:51:39,262
and if she has to let go of Dom,
she will not go on living herself.

907
00:51:41,890 --> 00:51:44,142
[Dom] Give me my shit, dude.
G… give me my shit.

908
00:51:44,226 --> 00:51:47,187
-[Mackenzie] Yeah, we have problems.
-[Dom] Why are you trying to torment me?

909
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:49,940
-[Mackenzie] We have problems.
-[Dom] You're trying to torment me.

910
00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:52,025
[uneasy music playing]

911
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,791
This was clearly a toxic relationship

912
00:52:07,874 --> 00:52:12,420
on a crash course for… for termination
one way or another.

913
00:52:19,052 --> 00:52:20,095
[music fades]

914
00:52:20,178 --> 00:52:25,433
It's difficult to prove these cases
without providing some sort of motive.

915
00:52:25,517 --> 00:52:27,602
Sometimes we're left
with only what happened,

916
00:52:27,686 --> 00:52:29,980
and we cannot tell why it happened.

917
00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:33,942
But two weeks before the crash,

918
00:52:34,025 --> 00:52:37,988
Dominic's mother, Christine Russo,
received a telephone call from her son,

919
00:52:38,071 --> 00:52:43,994
and he told her that Mackenzie
was driving erratically and dangerously,

920
00:52:44,494 --> 00:52:46,663
and that he needed help.

921
00:52:51,293 --> 00:52:54,254
So she sent her friend Christopher Martin

922
00:52:54,337 --> 00:52:57,591
to hunt down, on the highway, Dominic.

923
00:52:58,091 --> 00:53:00,051
-[electronic voice] Recording.
-[device beeps]

924
00:53:01,386 --> 00:53:04,389
-[officer] Chris, thanks for coming down.
-[Chris] Not a problem.

925
00:53:04,472 --> 00:53:07,017
[officer] I just wanna ask you
about the incident that happened

926
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:09,769
before the fatal crash.

927
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:13,732
[Chris] Um, Dominic called, and, uh,

928
00:53:14,274 --> 00:53:15,567
he was upset,

929
00:53:15,650 --> 00:53:18,195
and, uh, he was like,
"I'm driving in a car with her,

930
00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:21,323
and I don't wanna be around her anymore.
I'm done."

931
00:53:21,406 --> 00:53:23,158
So I get on the highway.

932
00:53:24,701 --> 00:53:26,828
And I call him. I say, "Where are you at?"

933
00:53:26,912 --> 00:53:30,707
She was like, "I'll crash this car."
I'm like, "Dude, what do you mean?"

934
00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:34,002
[officer] Can you clarify again
what you heard her say over the phone?

935
00:53:34,085 --> 00:53:36,630
-[Chris] She said she'll crash this car.
-[officer] You heard her?

936
00:53:36,713 --> 00:53:37,839
-[Chris] Yes.
-[officer] Okay.

937
00:53:38,423 --> 00:53:42,052
So we had a witness
who had heard her say those words.

938
00:53:42,135 --> 00:53:44,721
Mackenzie had threatened
to crash a car with Dominic

939
00:53:44,804 --> 00:53:46,181
two weeks before she did.

940
00:53:46,264 --> 00:53:49,935
In criminal cases,
we call that prior calculation.

941
00:53:50,018 --> 00:53:52,020
[tense music playing]

942
00:54:01,321 --> 00:54:03,949
[Scott] For three months, we had heard,

943
00:54:04,032 --> 00:54:06,493
"We have evidence.
We have evidence. We have evidence."

944
00:54:06,576 --> 00:54:08,495
"So when are you gonna arrest her?"

945
00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:10,705
"If you have evidence,
when is this gonna take place?"

946
00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:14,417
"When is the wheels of justice
finally gonna start to turn?"

947
00:54:16,586 --> 00:54:20,757
[Tim] The evidence that we had
in this case was compelling.

948
00:54:22,759 --> 00:54:24,177
100% gas pedal.

949
00:54:24,261 --> 00:54:28,932
No attempt at using the brake.
The car didn't fail.

950
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:33,353
She wasn't on some kind
of mind-altering substance.

951
00:54:33,937 --> 00:54:38,483
Mackenzie and Dominic had an incredibly
toxic and failing relationship.

952
00:54:38,566 --> 00:54:39,484
[music stops]

953
00:54:39,567 --> 00:54:44,322
We were left
with no reasonable alternative

954
00:54:44,406 --> 00:54:47,909
but that she did it on purpose, because
that's what all the evidence indicated.

955
00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:50,954
[tense music playing]

956
00:54:58,169 --> 00:55:00,672
[Natalie] Mackenzie was
going to physical therapy.

957
00:55:01,548 --> 00:55:06,636
After we left that appointment,
I had gotten pulled over.

958
00:55:16,563 --> 00:55:18,023
[officer 1] I'll go back to her.

959
00:55:20,191 --> 00:55:21,276
Hi, Mackenzie.

960
00:55:21,985 --> 00:55:23,403
[Mackenzie] Don't touch my phone!

961
00:55:23,486 --> 00:55:26,114
[officer 2] You're under arrest.
We have a warrant for your arrest.

962
00:55:26,197 --> 00:55:29,951
[Mackenzie] Why? Wait, we have a lawyer.
I have to call my lawyer.

963
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:35,123
I don't know
why they needed nine or ten cars

964
00:55:35,206 --> 00:55:37,959
to roll up on an 18, 17-year-old girl.

965
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:41,171
Prosecution needed a show,
and they wanted to put on a pageant.

966
00:55:41,254 --> 00:55:43,882
-Where is she?
-[officer 3] Right back there, pal.

967
00:55:47,469 --> 00:55:49,888
[officer 4] Hi, Mackenzie.
Step out for me.

968
00:55:51,848 --> 00:55:52,849
I'm Detective Hazou.

969
00:55:52,932 --> 00:55:55,143
I'm the one
who's been investigating the crash.

970
00:55:55,226 --> 00:55:57,771
You're under arrest
for aggravated murder times two.

971
00:55:59,522 --> 00:56:02,359
-Murder? What? What?!
-I was…

972
00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:04,110
Yeah, we were just… It was shock.

973
00:56:04,194 --> 00:56:05,028
[music stops]

974
00:56:07,655 --> 00:56:09,240
[reporter] Breaking news alert.

975
00:56:09,324 --> 00:56:13,870
An arrest in a deadly car crash involving
two Strongsville High School grads.

976
00:56:13,953 --> 00:56:16,706
We've learned now
18-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla

977
00:56:16,790 --> 00:56:19,959
has been charged with two counts
of aggravated murder.

978
00:56:20,043 --> 00:56:21,336
[dramatic music playing]

979
00:56:22,921 --> 00:56:25,423
Taking that news in,
you're stunned for a while.

980
00:56:25,507 --> 00:56:27,300
You can't say or do anything.

981
00:56:27,384 --> 00:56:29,636
-I was shocked when she was arrested.
-Yeah.

982
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,722
I was like, "What? W… why?
Was it the drugs?"

983
00:56:32,806 --> 00:56:35,683
No, they think she actually murdered him.

984
00:56:35,767 --> 00:56:39,187
'Cause all along,
we wanted it to be an accident.

985
00:56:39,687 --> 00:56:42,273
We didn't want someone
to intentionally murder our son.

986
00:56:46,069 --> 00:56:48,238
The day she got arrested,
everyone was chanting.

987
00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:51,116
Everyone was like,
"Oh, she's gone! She's arrested."

988
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,371
I didn't think
she would get arrested at all for this.

989
00:56:56,454 --> 00:56:58,957
That's the last thing I'm thinking about.

990
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:02,919
I'm thinking, "Our friends are dead.
How are we gonna recover from this?"

991
00:57:08,675 --> 00:57:11,553
You guys are acting like
this is Jeffrey Dahmer or someone.

992
00:57:11,636 --> 00:57:15,306
Someone that's out here,
like, calculating these murders

993
00:57:15,390 --> 00:57:17,934
and calculating these things.
No, that's not who she was.

994
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:21,813
Could you be careful taking this one off
so it doesn't break the bracelet?

995
00:57:21,896 --> 00:57:23,523
-[officer] You got it.
-Thank you.

996
00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:26,317
I've seen so many people be like,
"This dramatic girl,

997
00:57:26,401 --> 00:57:29,195
she's going to prison
worrying about her bracelets."

998
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:30,572
[officer] I don't wanna hurt you.

999
00:57:33,616 --> 00:57:36,161
[Rosie] But all of her bracelets
are, like, Dom bracelets.

1000
00:57:36,244 --> 00:57:39,205
She just didn't wanna break
the things that Dom had given her.

1001
00:57:39,289 --> 00:57:42,208
It's, like, the only…
The last thing that she has. She…

1002
00:57:42,959 --> 00:57:44,419
She was so sad about it all.

1003
00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:47,755
[officer] Here you go.
Watch your head going in.

1004
00:57:48,256 --> 00:57:49,674
[Mackenzie grunts, sniffles]

1005
00:57:53,178 --> 00:57:55,180
[tense music playing]

1006
00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:22,332
[officer 1] This way.

1007
00:58:23,249 --> 00:58:25,251
Okay, I'm gonna take your handcuffs off.

1008
00:58:25,335 --> 00:58:27,795
-I need all the jewelry to come off, okay?
-Okay.

1009
00:58:28,296 --> 00:58:29,547
I can't wear any of it?

1010
00:58:29,631 --> 00:58:32,425
No. I need you to take it off
while you're in the jail right now.

1011
00:58:34,552 --> 00:58:37,055
[officer 1] As soon as we're done,
you'll be able to make a call.

1012
00:58:37,138 --> 00:58:39,474
[officer 2] We have to wait
for the detective to come back.

1013
00:58:39,557 --> 00:58:41,017
Just have a seat for us.

1014
00:59:03,289 --> 00:59:04,123
[music fades]

1015
00:59:04,207 --> 00:59:08,753
[interviewer] So could you tell me why you
want to give this interview, Mackenzie?

1016
00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:15,510
I've never spoke before,
and I never told my side of the story.

1017
00:59:15,593 --> 00:59:20,014
I understand there's many different sides
to the story and different perspectives,

1018
00:59:20,098 --> 00:59:22,976
but I just wanna say my truth, and

1019
00:59:23,935 --> 00:59:28,189
I just know myself,
and I know I'm not… a monster.

1020
00:59:29,065 --> 00:59:30,858
[uneasy music playing]

1021
00:59:33,111 --> 00:59:34,237
[laughter echoes]

1022
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:35,154
[music fades]

1023
00:59:35,238 --> 00:59:37,574
We were just two kids
messing with each other.

1024
00:59:37,657 --> 00:59:42,078
And then, as the years went on
and we stayed together and grew closer,

1025
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,831
we would have probably
been married by now.

1026
00:59:45,790 --> 00:59:47,625
[uneasy music playing]

1027
00:59:47,709 --> 00:59:49,877
He was just so protective
and loving over me.

1028
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:53,506
I wanted to just heal him,
and he wanted to heal me.

1029
00:59:54,340 --> 00:59:57,260
We were partners.
We just took care of each other.

1030
00:59:58,094 --> 01:00:02,932
I mean, we argued, we got back together.
We broke up, we got back together.

1031
01:00:03,016 --> 01:00:06,227
It was… It was rocky, but it was good.

1032
01:00:06,311 --> 01:00:07,437
It was just…

1033
01:00:07,937 --> 01:00:09,606
We were in love. Young love.

1034
01:00:10,565 --> 01:00:14,611
[interviewer] Did you ever feel,
in your arguments with Dom,

1035
01:00:14,694 --> 01:00:17,447
rage that you couldn't control?

1036
01:00:18,364 --> 01:00:19,782
No, it was never like that.

1037
01:00:19,866 --> 01:00:21,784
It was always just like more, I was…

1038
01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:23,286
When we'd argue, I'd get sad

1039
01:00:23,369 --> 01:00:26,414
because he didn't really have
good communication skills,

1040
01:00:26,497 --> 01:00:31,044
and we would be cool later that day
or a couple of hours later,

1041
01:00:31,127 --> 01:00:34,422
and we would be watching movies
on the couch, eating popcorn.

1042
01:00:38,551 --> 01:00:41,137
Davion, he was more of Dom's friend.

1043
01:00:41,638 --> 01:00:45,725
That summer, he came to live with me
and Dom for a week or two,

1044
01:00:45,808 --> 01:00:49,395
and during those couple of weeks,
I was growing really close to Davion.

1045
01:00:49,479 --> 01:00:53,066
He was just full of life.
He was a good person.

1046
01:00:54,108 --> 01:00:56,110
[tense music playing]

1047
01:00:58,821 --> 01:01:03,368
[interviewer] What do you remember
from the morning of July 31st?

1048
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:07,747
[Mackenzie] It was 5:00 in the morning,

1049
01:01:07,830 --> 01:01:13,127
and we decided to head back
to Dom's house, and…

1050
01:01:13,211 --> 01:01:14,587
[music stops]

1051
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:16,506
I remember turning on the street,

1052
01:01:16,589 --> 01:01:21,761
and then I'm waking up in the hospital
the next day, and I don't…

1053
01:01:23,429 --> 01:01:25,390
Then my whole life is shattered.

1054
01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:30,395
[interviewer] People have said that it's
convenient that that's all you remember.

1055
01:01:30,478 --> 01:01:31,938
What would you say to that?

1056
01:01:32,939 --> 01:01:36,067
[interviewer] The whole morning
is just, like, nothing, and I…

1057
01:01:36,150 --> 01:01:37,819
It sounds crazy, but I…

1058
01:01:38,319 --> 01:01:42,448
Like, I can't… I'm not gonna, like, lie
just because people wanna hear a story.

1059
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:45,993
I have no recollection of that morning.

1060
01:01:47,620 --> 01:01:51,040
I'm not saying I'm… innocent.

1061
01:01:51,124 --> 01:01:53,876
I was a driver of a tragedy.

1062
01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:55,795
But I'm not a murderer.

1063
01:01:56,295 --> 01:01:58,297
[dramatic classical music playing]

1064
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:14,605
[reporter 1] The trial
for a Strongsville teen charged

1065
01:02:14,689 --> 01:02:15,982
with murder in a deadly crash

1066
01:02:16,065 --> 01:02:17,650
is going on today.

1067
01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:22,113
The accident happened just days
before Mackenzie Shirilla's 18th birthday.

1068
01:02:22,196 --> 01:02:25,032
[reporter 2] Shirilla is now facing
murder, felonious assault,

1069
01:02:25,116 --> 01:02:27,785
and aggravated vehicular homicide charges.

1070
01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:30,079
Good luck proving it. There's no…

1071
01:02:30,163 --> 01:02:31,330
-What proof?
-Yeah.

1072
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:34,083
What proof… What proof do they have
to any of this?

1073
01:02:35,626 --> 01:02:38,755
[Tim] In Ohio, a defendant chooses

1074
01:02:38,838 --> 01:02:41,883
whether to have a jury trial
or a bench trial.

1075
01:02:41,966 --> 01:02:45,261
A bench trial is tried just to the judge.

1076
01:02:46,012 --> 01:02:49,348
Mackenzie Shirilla
opted for a bench trial.

1077
01:02:50,641 --> 01:02:55,897
[Scott] We were gonna get our day in court
but we absolutely were in fear and terror

1078
01:02:55,980 --> 01:02:58,524
that we would not get earthly justice
for our son.

1079
01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:00,902
[tense music playing]

1080
01:03:00,985 --> 01:03:04,447
We went to the first hearing
and sat with their family.

1081
01:03:04,947 --> 01:03:05,907
Yep.

1082
01:03:06,449 --> 01:03:08,034
[interviewer] Sat with the Shirillas?

1083
01:03:08,117 --> 01:03:09,619
Mm-hmm.

1084
01:03:11,412 --> 01:03:15,374
We still thought she had been drinking
or there were drugs involved.

1085
01:03:16,042 --> 01:03:19,378
You know, they were kids.
Accidents happen all the time like that.

1086
01:03:19,462 --> 01:03:21,214
You never in a million years think

1087
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:24,383
this girl killed your brother.

1088
01:03:24,967 --> 01:03:26,135
You just don't think that way.

1089
01:03:29,806 --> 01:03:35,144
All of the records will show,
from when the police first responded,

1090
01:03:35,228 --> 01:03:39,273
she had no recollection of the events,

1091
01:03:39,357 --> 01:03:43,528
and that is consistent
with what happens many times in accidents.

1092
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:50,618
My attorney was very reassuring
of there being no evidence

1093
01:03:50,701 --> 01:03:54,622
and that anyone can see
that there was no intent.

1094
01:03:54,705 --> 01:04:00,461
How can you come to any conclusion
other than, if anything, she's reckless?

1095
01:04:02,046 --> 01:04:05,299
Your Honor, at issue
in this case, primarily,

1096
01:04:05,383 --> 01:04:08,970
is the defendant's state of mind
at the time of the fatal crash.

1097
01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:11,639
The evidence in this case is clear.

1098
01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:14,141
She drove the car into the wall.

1099
01:04:14,225 --> 01:04:17,019
She made up her mind,
and she never went back.

1100
01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:19,021
[eerie music playing]

1101
01:04:19,105 --> 01:04:21,065
[Scott] The prosecutor would alert us

1102
01:04:21,148 --> 01:04:23,192
to what they were gonna show
in the courtroom.

1103
01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:27,071
This is two-tenths of a mile
from the ultimate crash site.

1104
01:04:27,154 --> 01:04:29,699
[Scott] We saw the video
for the first time.

1105
01:04:31,492 --> 01:04:33,452
[Tim] You will hear the Camry coming

1106
01:04:33,536 --> 01:04:36,497
before you see
the last few seconds before impact.

1107
01:04:37,123 --> 01:04:39,250
-Oh my gosh.
-It was torture.

1108
01:04:39,333 --> 01:04:41,752
And you kept saying
it was like a bomb went off.

1109
01:04:41,836 --> 01:04:44,255
-Yeah, it was like a torpedo.
-[Christine] A missile.

1110
01:04:45,172 --> 01:04:47,341
[car engine roars]

1111
01:04:47,425 --> 01:04:50,595
[car crashing]

1112
01:04:51,554 --> 01:04:52,930
-Brutal.
-[Christine] Mm-hmm.

1113
01:04:53,014 --> 01:04:54,015
Brutal.

1114
01:04:54,724 --> 01:04:57,184
That's embedded.
You never get rid of that.

1115
01:04:58,811 --> 01:05:03,190
[Scott] There was a pause,
and my wife, Jaime,

1116
01:05:03,858 --> 01:05:05,693
went into the bathroom and threw up.

1117
01:05:06,569 --> 01:05:12,116
100% acceleration
through the entire final five seconds.

1118
01:05:12,199 --> 01:05:14,201
[somber music playing]

1119
01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:19,081
No service brake was deployed
during that final five seconds.

1120
01:05:19,582 --> 01:05:22,293
-What other explanation do you have?
-[Christine] 100 miles an hour.

1121
01:05:22,376 --> 01:05:25,254
100% acceleration. Never hit a brake.

1122
01:05:25,338 --> 01:05:28,341
It was a big slap in the face,
thinking we're there for her

1123
01:05:28,424 --> 01:05:32,303
'cause we feel bad for her too,
and then it's all a lie.

1124
01:05:35,765 --> 01:05:38,100
[reporter] It's day two
in the trial of the Strongsville teen

1125
01:05:38,184 --> 01:05:40,895
charged with murder in a deadly crash.

1126
01:05:40,978 --> 01:05:42,063
[somber music continues]

1127
01:05:42,146 --> 01:05:44,357
When I first got this case

1128
01:05:45,358 --> 01:05:47,318
and saw that the charge was murder,

1129
01:05:47,902 --> 01:05:52,323
I thought to myself,
"Boy, if she's driving the car,

1130
01:05:52,406 --> 01:05:56,327
and it was her purpose
to kill these people,

1131
01:05:56,410 --> 01:05:58,621
she must have wanted to kill herself too."

1132
01:06:01,749 --> 01:06:04,710
In fact, we know
that she was not suicidal.

1133
01:06:05,628 --> 01:06:09,173
I would never, ever see her
purposely wanting to hurt herself.

1134
01:06:09,256 --> 01:06:11,550
Say that is,
and she's so sad, like mentally,

1135
01:06:11,634 --> 01:06:13,719
I… I don't think that's the way to do it.

1136
01:06:14,637 --> 01:06:16,764
[Faythe] Kenzie loves herself a lot.

1137
01:06:16,847 --> 01:06:19,976
She wouldn't even have a McChicken
with me at McDonald's

1138
01:06:20,059 --> 01:06:22,144
because she cared so much
about her own health.

1139
01:06:22,228 --> 01:06:24,897
I don't feel like somebody like that,

1140
01:06:24,981 --> 01:06:28,109
who's caring so much about their body
and so much about

1141
01:06:29,110 --> 01:06:31,195
themselves and how they're doing,

1142
01:06:31,278 --> 01:06:32,863
would be suicidal.

1143
01:06:33,948 --> 01:06:35,324
[Rosie] Her birthday was coming up.

1144
01:06:35,408 --> 01:06:39,203
She had an expensive designer outfit
ready to wear.

1145
01:06:40,538 --> 01:06:43,165
She had presents ready,
wrapped up from Dom,

1146
01:06:43,249 --> 01:06:44,959
that she still has never opened.

1147
01:06:45,751 --> 01:06:48,921
Nothing makes sense. It really doesn't.

1148
01:06:49,588 --> 01:06:53,676
[Tim] Mr. McDonnell brought up the issue
of her trying to kill herself.

1149
01:06:53,759 --> 01:06:55,594
How could anybody do that?

1150
01:06:55,678 --> 01:07:00,391
Everybody that's heard this evidence
can't figure out

1151
01:07:00,474 --> 01:07:02,685
how could anybody do that.

1152
01:07:02,768 --> 01:07:05,813
We don't have to prove
that she was suicidal,

1153
01:07:05,896 --> 01:07:08,107
but she put that car into the wall,

1154
01:07:08,190 --> 01:07:10,484
and the results were as foreseeable

1155
01:07:10,568 --> 01:07:13,446
as if she drove that car
off of the Grand Canyon.

1156
01:07:14,196 --> 01:07:16,157
[James] Is it just kids being kids?

1157
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,492
Is it Dominic grabbing the steering wheel?

1158
01:07:19,285 --> 01:07:20,995
Those are all possibilities.

1159
01:07:21,078 --> 01:07:21,912
[music fades]

1160
01:07:21,996 --> 01:07:25,583
What do you think happened
to cause the crash?

1161
01:07:26,375 --> 01:07:28,544
Through all the evidence
that has been presented,

1162
01:07:28,627 --> 01:07:32,840
the most logical speculation
seems to be a medical emergency.

1163
01:07:34,467 --> 01:07:36,427
I always tell everybody that she has POTS.

1164
01:07:36,510 --> 01:07:37,595
[tense music playing]

1165
01:07:37,678 --> 01:07:41,223
POTS stands for postural orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome.

1166
01:07:41,724 --> 01:07:44,643
It's a blood pressure disorder.

1167
01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:49,523
You can either get dizzy, lightheadedness,
you can black out.

1168
01:07:49,607 --> 01:07:52,485
With POTS, you just black out.

1169
01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:54,320
It can happen very fast.

1170
01:07:54,403 --> 01:07:57,656
If I move a certain way,
it just comes out of nowhere.

1171
01:07:57,740 --> 01:08:00,910
I could just be sitting like this,
and it could hit me.

1172
01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:05,748
You can move the microphone.
It goes side to side.

1173
01:08:05,831 --> 01:08:06,832
[Natalie] Okay.

1174
01:08:06,916 --> 01:08:07,958
[music fades]

1175
01:08:13,964 --> 01:08:16,842
[clerk] Can you state your name
and spell your last name for the record?

1176
01:08:16,926 --> 01:08:19,929
Natalie Shirilla, S-H-I-R-I-L-L-A.

1177
01:08:20,012 --> 01:08:23,974
[Tim] When was Mackenzie
diagnosed with POTS?

1178
01:08:24,058 --> 01:08:25,226
2017.

1179
01:08:25,309 --> 01:08:28,229
[Tim] And so you were aware
of these POTS incidents,

1180
01:08:28,312 --> 01:08:33,484
yet you still went to the BMV and said,
"Give my daughter a… a driver's license."

1181
01:08:33,567 --> 01:08:34,401
Yes.

1182
01:08:34,485 --> 01:08:36,028
[Tim] But as a mom,

1183
01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:39,573
this thing is so serious to you, correct?

1184
01:08:40,074 --> 01:08:40,908
It can be.

1185
01:08:40,991 --> 01:08:45,746
You never told her not to drive the car
because of this POTS diagnosis?

1186
01:08:45,830 --> 01:08:47,540
[Natalie] She's been able to manage it.

1187
01:08:47,623 --> 01:08:50,126
[Tim] You're here to tell us
that this was the reason

1188
01:08:50,209 --> 01:08:52,294
that she crashed the car
into the PLIDCO building.

1189
01:08:52,378 --> 01:08:54,380
Isn't that the…
Isn't that the bottom line?

1190
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:56,090
It… It could be.

1191
01:08:56,173 --> 01:08:57,967
-[Tim] Could it be?
-It could be.

1192
01:08:59,552 --> 01:09:02,263
-[Tim] No further questions, Your Honor.
-[judge] Redirect.

1193
01:09:02,888 --> 01:09:04,431
-That's it?
-Yep.

1194
01:09:05,432 --> 01:09:08,269
[Tim] If that was
an obvious element of defense,

1195
01:09:08,894 --> 01:09:14,817
we were never provided with a opinion
from a medical person

1196
01:09:15,526 --> 01:09:17,403
stating that Mackenzie had suffered

1197
01:09:17,486 --> 01:09:20,865
some kind of POTS incident
that caused this.

1198
01:09:21,365 --> 01:09:24,827
Um… And I think that's because

1199
01:09:25,536 --> 01:09:26,829
that's not what happened.

1200
01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:30,374
[Christine] It's physically impossible.

1201
01:09:30,457 --> 01:09:33,794
If she passed out, then her foot
would have eased off the gas.

1202
01:09:33,878 --> 01:09:36,839
-Wouldn't have stuck down like that.
-It makes no sense whatsoever.

1203
01:09:36,922 --> 01:09:38,841
[tense music playing]

1204
01:09:38,924 --> 01:09:42,636
[Tim] Mackenzie drove that car
down Progress,

1205
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:45,806
going up to 100 miles an hour.

1206
01:09:46,307 --> 01:09:51,562
This would have taken intense engagement
with the steering and controls of that car

1207
01:09:51,645 --> 01:09:54,356
just because of the nature
of the turns on the road.

1208
01:09:54,857 --> 01:09:58,152
There's an S-curve,
and it goes up, and then it goes down.

1209
01:09:59,612 --> 01:10:03,240
That is not a piece of road
that someone could navigate

1210
01:10:03,324 --> 01:10:06,577
at 100 miles an hour while blacked out.

1211
01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:10,039
[music fades]

1212
01:10:11,540 --> 01:10:16,754
[interviewer] How does a medical emergency
account for the control of the car?

1213
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:23,844
I'm unsure. I have… 'Cause I have
no recollection of that morning.

1214
01:10:23,928 --> 01:10:26,430
But I know
nothing about it was intentional

1215
01:10:26,513 --> 01:10:28,182
'cause that's not in my character.

1216
01:10:31,268 --> 01:10:32,937
[clerk] Please state your full name.

1217
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:35,439
I'm Christine Russo. I'm Dominic's mother.

1218
01:10:35,522 --> 01:10:41,612
[Tim] Did you, at any point, um,
provide the Strongsville Police Department

1219
01:10:41,695 --> 01:10:44,865
with some videos that you had obtained

1220
01:10:44,949 --> 01:10:48,410
that had conversations
between Mackenzie and Dominic?

1221
01:10:48,494 --> 01:10:49,328
Yes.

1222
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:53,249
[Tim] And how did you
come into possession of those videos?

1223
01:10:53,332 --> 01:10:58,837
They were recorded on a phone
that happened to be in my son's home.

1224
01:11:00,172 --> 01:11:04,843
Christine Russo had brought
to the investigators' attention

1225
01:11:04,927 --> 01:11:10,140
some recordings made by Dominic
just a matter of days before the crash.

1226
01:11:11,433 --> 01:11:13,602
[Mackenzie] Dom, open the door.

1227
01:11:14,853 --> 01:11:17,314
[Dom] I can't open the door.
I can't sit here and fight.

1228
01:11:17,398 --> 01:11:20,651
We gotta go to dinner
to see my grandparents. I can't…

1229
01:11:20,734 --> 01:11:23,237
[Mackenzie] You're not going to dinner
if you don't open the door.

1230
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:24,738
I'ma let you know that now.

1231
01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:26,740
You're gonna come open this door right now

1232
01:11:26,824 --> 01:11:29,451
or there's gonna be
a serious fucking problem.

1233
01:11:31,161 --> 01:11:35,040
Okay, ready? I'm gonna count to ten.
The door's gonna open, okay?

1234
01:11:35,124 --> 01:11:37,501
You're gonna open the door
and stop hiding behind the door

1235
01:11:37,584 --> 01:11:39,420
like a little fucking bitch.

1236
01:11:39,503 --> 01:11:42,006
[Dom] Step away from the door.
Maybe I can come outside and talk.

1237
01:11:42,089 --> 01:11:43,757
[Mackenzie] No,
we're not fighting outside.

1238
01:11:43,841 --> 01:11:46,468
You're gonna open the door right now.

1239
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:48,971
-[Dom] Why aren't we fighting outside?
-[Mackenzie] One minute.

1240
01:11:49,054 --> 01:11:51,390
[Dom] Now my mom's
trying to call me. I gotta--

1241
01:11:51,473 --> 01:11:53,851
[Mackenzie] No. If you hang up on me,
we're done. I'm leaving.

1242
01:11:53,934 --> 01:11:54,935
[ominous music playing]

1243
01:11:55,019 --> 01:11:57,938
-[Dom] Kenzie, there's nothing I can do.
-[Mackenzie] There is.

1244
01:11:58,022 --> 01:11:59,189
Stop being a little bitch.

1245
01:11:59,273 --> 01:12:01,108
[Dom] I can't let you
in with how you're acting.

1246
01:12:01,191 --> 01:12:02,401
It's as simple as that.

1247
01:12:02,484 --> 01:12:04,778
[Mackenzie] Okay, I'm gonna
break into your house, then.

1248
01:12:05,529 --> 01:12:07,948
[Dom] Dude, what the hell?
What the actual fuck?

1249
01:12:08,032 --> 01:12:09,241
[pounding]

1250
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:12,911
[Mackenzie] You don't let me in the house
that I sleep in every night, we are done.

1251
01:12:16,957 --> 01:12:19,251
-I was disgusted, and I really think that…
-Yeah.

1252
01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:20,919
It just really made me mad.

1253
01:12:21,628 --> 01:12:25,132
Yeah, I felt sorry for Dominic.
I can't believe he didn't say anything.

1254
01:12:26,175 --> 01:12:28,135
[interviewer] Had you ever seen
that side to her?

1255
01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:29,678
-No.
-Nope.

1256
01:12:30,763 --> 01:12:33,265
Didn't see that side of her at all.

1257
01:12:34,183 --> 01:12:36,810
[Tim] How would you describe
Dominic's tone on these videos?

1258
01:12:36,894 --> 01:12:38,020
Very calm.

1259
01:12:38,103 --> 01:12:41,398
[Tim] How would you describe
the defendant's tone on these videos?

1260
01:12:41,482 --> 01:12:42,649
Irate and angry.

1261
01:12:43,609 --> 01:12:45,402
[Tim] Thank you.
I have no further questions.

1262
01:12:46,653 --> 01:12:49,782
[Scott] You could sense a mood
in the courtroom.

1263
01:12:49,865 --> 01:12:52,451
It was as if people
were coming to the realization

1264
01:12:52,951 --> 01:12:55,496
that she could actually do it.

1265
01:12:55,579 --> 01:12:57,623
She was volatile enough

1266
01:12:58,123 --> 01:13:00,876
and angry enough

1267
01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:04,463
and desperate enough…
to do just about anything.

1268
01:13:04,546 --> 01:13:06,715
[tense music playing]

1269
01:13:06,799 --> 01:13:11,011
When that came out,
there was no hiding who you were anymore.

1270
01:13:11,887 --> 01:13:14,098
It just all painted a huge picture.

1271
01:13:15,933 --> 01:13:19,144
She actually intentionally murdered him.

1272
01:13:22,147 --> 01:13:23,148
[music fades]

1273
01:13:23,232 --> 01:13:26,443
This catastrophe took place

1274
01:13:26,527 --> 01:13:30,280
at the conclusion
of a rocky and tumultuous relationship

1275
01:13:30,364 --> 01:13:34,159
between Mackenzie Shirilla
and Dominic Russo.

1276
01:13:34,868 --> 01:13:39,415
Whatever happened, Judge,
was because of that relationship.

1277
01:13:39,498 --> 01:13:42,251
That is why this took place.

1278
01:13:42,751 --> 01:13:44,461
And what about Davion?

1279
01:13:45,796 --> 01:13:47,714
He's just cargo in the backseat.

1280
01:13:48,215 --> 01:13:50,634
If you knew
you were gonna kill your boyfriend,

1281
01:13:50,717 --> 01:13:52,594
what did Davion have to do with that?

1282
01:13:53,095 --> 01:13:54,596
He had nothing to do with that.

1283
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:57,391
You could have let him out,
let him walk away.

1284
01:13:57,474 --> 01:14:01,061
She treated him with the utmost disregard.

1285
01:14:02,187 --> 01:14:05,524
We trust the court, and we wait
for your verdict. Thank you, Your Honor.

1286
01:14:05,607 --> 01:14:07,734
We ask you to find her guilty
on all counts.

1287
01:14:09,111 --> 01:14:11,113
[somber music playing]

1288
01:14:16,410 --> 01:14:19,913
[judge] There is nothing
that I can do or say today

1289
01:14:19,997 --> 01:14:23,208
that will return these two young men
to their families.

1290
01:14:25,377 --> 01:14:29,381
This trial is the culmination
of decisions made by one person.

1291
01:14:31,049 --> 01:14:32,426
The crash video.

1292
01:14:33,385 --> 01:14:37,723
The video clearly shows
purpose and intent of the defendant.

1293
01:14:38,223 --> 01:14:41,518
She chose a course of death
and destruction that day.

1294
01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:46,773
She morphs from a responsible driver
to literal hell on wheels

1295
01:14:46,857 --> 01:14:49,109
as she makes her way down the street.

1296
01:14:50,194 --> 01:14:52,196
Court renders the following verdicts.

1297
01:14:52,696 --> 01:14:53,780
Count one.

1298
01:14:54,364 --> 01:14:57,618
The court, having had count one tried
to a pursuant to waiver,

1299
01:14:57,701 --> 01:14:59,786
finds the defendant Mackenzie Shirilla

1300
01:14:59,870 --> 01:15:02,706
guilty of murder, to wit, Dominic Russo,

1301
01:15:02,789 --> 01:15:07,419
in violation of Ohio Revised Code
section 2903.02a,

1302
01:15:07,503 --> 01:15:09,338
is charged with count one.

1303
01:15:09,421 --> 01:15:10,714
-Count two.
-[handcuffs click]

1304
01:15:10,797 --> 01:15:14,676
The court, having had count two tried
to a pursuant to waiver,

1305
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:17,721
finds the defendant Mackenzie Shirilla
guilty of murder,

1306
01:15:17,804 --> 01:15:19,306
to wit, Davion Flanagan,

1307
01:15:19,389 --> 01:15:24,520
in violation of Ohio Revised Code
Section 2903.02a,

1308
01:15:24,603 --> 01:15:26,688
is charged with count two
of the indictment.

1309
01:15:28,857 --> 01:15:30,526
-[Mackenzie] Mom?
-[Natalie] Hey, hey.

1310
01:15:30,609 --> 01:15:32,819
-[Mackenzie] Oh my goodness.
-[Natalie] I know, Kenzie.

1311
01:15:32,903 --> 01:15:35,531
[Mackenzie] I didn't think
that was gonna happen. She was just like…

1312
01:15:35,614 --> 01:15:38,158
She just made it seem
like I was just a murderer.

1313
01:15:38,242 --> 01:15:39,826
[Natalie] I know. I know, sweetie.

1314
01:15:40,327 --> 01:15:41,578
[Rosie] I was, like, shocked.

1315
01:15:42,204 --> 01:15:44,039
I genuinely do not think

1316
01:15:44,122 --> 01:15:47,417
that this could have been on purpose,
intentional, or planned.

1317
01:15:47,501 --> 01:15:49,711
Like, it doesn't make sense to me.

1318
01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:50,629
[tense music playing]

1319
01:15:50,712 --> 01:15:52,130
We were all friends.

1320
01:15:55,926 --> 01:15:59,972
A local case has drawn
national and international attention.

1321
01:16:00,055 --> 01:16:04,851
Sentencing will take place tomorrow
for 19-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla.

1322
01:16:04,935 --> 01:16:07,771
Mackenzie Shirilla could face
up to life in prison.

1323
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:11,358
[Mackenzie] How much time
do you think I'm gonna get?

1324
01:16:12,109 --> 01:16:14,027
I'm sure they're gonna go with the max.

1325
01:16:14,611 --> 01:16:16,071
-[Natalie] The max?
-[Mackenzie] Okay?

1326
01:16:17,030 --> 01:16:20,075
[Tim] A conviction for murder
carries a life sentence.

1327
01:16:20,158 --> 01:16:23,829
The sentencing judge chooses
between 15 years to life

1328
01:16:23,912 --> 01:16:27,874
or 30 years to life
before the possibility of parole.

1329
01:16:27,958 --> 01:16:28,917
[music fades]

1330
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:35,841
I just wanted my son's life
to have… concrete value

1331
01:16:35,924 --> 01:16:37,467
in the term of years.

1332
01:16:38,093 --> 01:16:40,887
And if that was 15, okay.

1333
01:16:40,971 --> 01:16:44,266
If that was 30,
I would be happier with that.

1334
01:16:45,726 --> 01:16:48,604
[Tim] We have received a series of letters

1335
01:16:48,687 --> 01:16:51,023
that have been submitted
on behalf of the defendant.

1336
01:16:51,523 --> 01:16:56,111
They describe her as a good student
and a loving and caring person,

1337
01:16:56,695 --> 01:16:59,615
um, and that she could never do
something like this.

1338
01:17:00,699 --> 01:17:03,702
And I think that who she actually was

1339
01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:05,662
is directly contradictory

1340
01:17:05,746 --> 01:17:09,041
to what is painted by the letters
submitted on behalf of her today.

1341
01:17:09,541 --> 01:17:12,628
♪ Got a figure like a pinup
Got a figure like a doll ♪

1342
01:17:12,711 --> 01:17:15,672
♪ Don't care if you think I'm dumb
I don't care at all ♪

1343
01:17:15,756 --> 01:17:18,759
♪ Candy bear, sweetie pie
Wanna be adored ♪

1344
01:17:18,842 --> 01:17:22,095
♪ I'm the girl you'd die for ♪

1345
01:17:22,763 --> 01:17:25,223
[haunting music playing]

1346
01:17:26,725 --> 01:17:31,313
I feel like anybody's social media
isn't really them.

1347
01:17:31,396 --> 01:17:35,275
It's how they want the world to see them.

1348
01:17:35,359 --> 01:17:38,820
And at the time,
that's how my 17-year-old brain was

1349
01:17:39,321 --> 01:17:40,822
wanting to be seen.

1350
01:17:40,906 --> 01:17:42,491
♪ Think I'm dumb
I don't care at all… ♪

1351
01:17:42,574 --> 01:17:44,785
This video was made in 2021. [laughs]

1352
01:17:44,868 --> 01:17:49,956
You can see the date right there.
April 2021. A whole year before.

1353
01:17:50,749 --> 01:17:54,086
Anybody my age, like,
grew up with Marina and the Diamonds.

1354
01:17:54,169 --> 01:17:57,339
This is just, like,
a song that everybody knows,

1355
01:17:57,422 --> 01:17:59,549
and then it turned into a TikTok trend.

1356
01:17:59,633 --> 01:18:03,929
We all have made our videos
to this exact sound. Like, to the trend.

1357
01:18:04,429 --> 01:18:07,683
♪ Got a figure like a pinup
Got a figure like a doll ♪

1358
01:18:07,766 --> 01:18:10,852
♪ Don't care if you think I'm dumb
I don't care at all ♪

1359
01:18:10,936 --> 01:18:13,939
♪ Candy bear, sweetie pie
Wanna be adored ♪

1360
01:18:14,022 --> 01:18:17,442
♪ I'm the girl you'd die for ♪

1361
01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:22,155
I post probably, like,
five to seven TikToks a day. Per day.

1362
01:18:22,239 --> 01:18:23,573
At that rate of content,

1363
01:18:23,657 --> 01:18:26,785
I don't even remember
what I said yesterday.

1364
01:18:26,868 --> 01:18:29,496
-[ominous music playing]
-You cannot use that against her.

1365
01:18:30,330 --> 01:18:34,167
Uh, Halloween of last year,
before being charged.

1366
01:18:35,752 --> 01:18:37,921
["Vamp Anthem" by Playboi Carti playing]

1367
01:18:42,008 --> 01:18:44,302
♪ When them vamps outside
Li'l bitch better be ready ♪

1368
01:18:45,804 --> 01:18:46,930
[judge] Are these post…

1369
01:18:47,431 --> 01:18:50,934
These are on Halloween of last year,
so these would be post-crash,

1370
01:18:51,017 --> 01:18:54,146
um, just before
she was charged in November.

1371
01:18:54,229 --> 01:18:59,818
I'm introducing these to the court
to show the shocking lack of remorse.

1372
01:19:00,777 --> 01:19:04,865
Dressing up as corpses
three months after she killed two people,

1373
01:19:04,948 --> 01:19:06,992
it just sickened us to the very core.

1374
01:19:08,702 --> 01:19:12,122
We're not seeing her post videos
of her mourning

1375
01:19:12,664 --> 01:19:15,041
or videos of her regret.

1376
01:19:15,542 --> 01:19:18,920
We were seeing posts
of her living her best life.

1377
01:19:20,380 --> 01:19:24,885
We were dressed as Playboi Carti.
That's his makeup that he does onstage.

1378
01:19:25,594 --> 01:19:28,138
And I think most people my age know that.

1379
01:19:28,221 --> 01:19:32,017
Her and Dom loved Carti.
Like, her and Dom really loved Carti.

1380
01:19:33,268 --> 01:19:35,812
That is what these kids do.
Everything's on social media.

1381
01:19:35,896 --> 01:19:38,273
They make crazy videos all the time, so…

1382
01:19:38,774 --> 01:19:40,609
-Um…
-[music fades]

1383
01:19:40,692 --> 01:19:45,280
Uh, if she didn't kill someone,
I guess it wouldn't have been a big deal.

1384
01:19:45,864 --> 01:19:49,075
But she did. So now it just kinda
sheds light on who she was.

1385
01:19:50,410 --> 01:19:51,787
[tearfully] To the families

1386
01:19:52,746 --> 01:19:54,372
of Dom and Davion,

1387
01:19:54,873 --> 01:19:56,416
I'm so deeply sorry.

1388
01:19:56,917 --> 01:19:59,544
I hope one day you can see
how I'd never let this happen

1389
01:19:59,628 --> 01:20:01,296
or do it on purpose.

1390
01:20:01,379 --> 01:20:03,006
And I'm so sorry.

1391
01:20:03,507 --> 01:20:04,966
And to my family,

1392
01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:07,636
thank you for the support
and all the love you guys give.

1393
01:20:07,719 --> 01:20:10,430
Thank you for fighting for me.
I love you all so much.

1394
01:20:10,514 --> 01:20:12,641
All right, I'm done.
Thank you, Your Honor.

1395
01:20:12,724 --> 01:20:14,851
[ominous music playing]

1396
01:20:14,935 --> 01:20:18,104
That was the worst apology
I think I've ever heard in my life.

1397
01:20:18,188 --> 01:20:21,274
I know when someone's being fake or not.

1398
01:20:22,025 --> 01:20:25,153
And that was not… That was not real.

1399
01:20:31,827 --> 01:20:33,912
[judge] Hello. Could you start
with your name?

1400
01:20:33,995 --> 01:20:36,748
Hi, Your Honor. My name's Davyne Flanagan.

1401
01:20:36,832 --> 01:20:38,959
Um, Davion was my older brother.

1402
01:20:39,042 --> 01:20:43,380
Davion was not just a big brother to me,
but a role model in many ways.

1403
01:20:44,756 --> 01:20:48,885
He was the person I trusted the most
because he made me feel safe.

1404
01:20:48,969 --> 01:20:51,847
He was the one
who picked me up when I fell.

1405
01:20:51,930 --> 01:20:56,393
He was my best friend and the only person
that has stayed with me since I was born.

1406
01:20:56,893 --> 01:21:00,313
I would like you to give Mackenzie
the longest possible sentence.

1407
01:21:00,397 --> 01:21:01,773
Thank you, Your Honor.

1408
01:21:05,902 --> 01:21:09,155
[Natalie] Your Honor, this was
a terrible, tragic, nightmare accident

1409
01:21:09,239 --> 01:21:11,533
to have happened
that she has no memory of.

1410
01:21:11,616 --> 01:21:14,452
And she will never emotionally
or physically recover from it.

1411
01:21:16,162 --> 01:21:17,873
[judge] I'm hearing
a lot about your daughter

1412
01:21:17,956 --> 01:21:20,417
and not hearing very much
about the two dead people.

1413
01:21:20,500 --> 01:21:21,501
Dominic, okay?

1414
01:21:21,585 --> 01:21:24,045
I'm asking you for leniency

1415
01:21:24,129 --> 01:21:27,090
because this was a tragic accident
that she does not remember.

1416
01:21:27,173 --> 01:21:29,509
And Do… Davion, we don't…

1417
01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:32,721
-He's a new friend. And I'm so sorry.
-[judge] What does that mean?

1418
01:21:32,804 --> 01:21:35,765
-His life is worth less?
-No, no, no. No.

1419
01:21:36,558 --> 01:21:39,019
No. God, no. Not at all.

1420
01:21:39,102 --> 01:21:40,645
I understand what it looks like.

1421
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:44,399
I'm… I'm… I'm saying that it was
a tragic accident. She would never--

1422
01:21:44,482 --> 01:21:46,902
-[judge] We're gonna disagree on that.
-[Natalie] I understand.

1423
01:21:46,985 --> 01:21:49,446
-I'm so sorry, guys. I'm sorry.
-[judge] Thank you.

1424
01:21:49,529 --> 01:21:51,114
-[Natalie] I love you.
-Love you.

1425
01:21:53,867 --> 01:21:56,578
[judge] I understand
that the pain in this room

1426
01:21:56,661 --> 01:21:58,997
wants me to impose the harshest sentence.

1427
01:22:00,332 --> 01:22:03,627
But I don't believe that would be
the appropriate sentence

1428
01:22:03,710 --> 01:22:08,048
because I do believe that Mackenzie
will not be out in 15 years.

1429
01:22:09,799 --> 01:22:13,929
She's sentenced on count two,
the murder of Davion Flanagan,

1430
01:22:14,429 --> 01:22:15,972
15 years to life.

1431
01:22:16,473 --> 01:22:20,268
She's sentenced on count one,
the murder of Dominic Russo,

1432
01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:21,645
15 years to life,

1433
01:22:21,728 --> 01:22:25,649
to be served concurrent to each other
with credit for time served.

1434
01:22:26,316 --> 01:22:27,984
There's a very good likelihood, Mackenzie,

1435
01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:30,570
that you will spend
the rest of your life in prison.

1436
01:22:34,282 --> 01:22:37,494
[music intensifies]

1437
01:22:37,577 --> 01:22:39,871
-[Natalie] Love you, Kenz.
-[Mackenzie] Love you all.

1438
01:22:39,955 --> 01:22:41,122
[man] We know you're innocent.

1439
01:22:49,547 --> 01:22:50,423
[music fades]

1440
01:22:50,507 --> 01:22:51,549
[woman sobbing]

1441
01:22:52,676 --> 01:22:56,930
We are just thankful
that we feel justice was served today.

1442
01:22:57,013 --> 01:23:02,102
Um, there's not a day that goes by
that we don't miss our son,

1443
01:23:02,185 --> 01:23:04,437
and justice was served for him today.

1444
01:23:04,521 --> 01:23:07,357
Um, but honestly, there's no winners here.

1445
01:23:07,857 --> 01:23:09,401
There's no winners here today.

1446
01:23:09,901 --> 01:23:10,986
[somber music playing]

1447
01:23:11,069 --> 01:23:16,366
[Tim] It matters to me
that Davion and Dominic's loved ones

1448
01:23:16,449 --> 01:23:20,829
feel that justice was provided,

1449
01:23:21,413 --> 01:23:24,040
and that Mackenzie was held accountable.

1450
01:23:24,708 --> 01:23:31,715
And she will sit in a cage for a long time
because of what she did.

1451
01:23:36,011 --> 01:23:37,012
[music fades]

1452
01:23:37,095 --> 01:23:40,098
It's really hard every day in here.

1453
01:23:40,181 --> 01:23:45,437
I try to wake up
and be the best person I can be every day,

1454
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:47,063
stay out of trouble.

1455
01:23:47,147 --> 01:23:50,650
There's not a moment that doesn't pass
where I don't…

1456
01:23:52,235 --> 01:23:54,362
I don't think about them or

1457
01:23:55,447 --> 01:23:56,489
I don't

1458
01:23:57,282 --> 01:23:59,534
feel the pain in my chest that…

1459
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:04,080
It's still like a void of losing them and…

1460
01:24:08,501 --> 01:24:09,335
[door slams]

1461
01:24:11,337 --> 01:24:13,715
[interviewer] Is there any last word
that you'd like to say?

1462
01:24:16,593 --> 01:24:18,470
Did I touch on that… the right…

1463
01:24:18,553 --> 01:24:20,638
Okay, so everything is, like… You think…

1464
01:24:21,139 --> 01:24:24,142
I don't wanna force anything
and just say too much

1465
01:24:24,225 --> 01:24:26,144
or sound crazy.

1466
01:24:27,395 --> 01:24:32,525
I just wanna just make sure
that I'm big on the…

1467
01:24:33,193 --> 01:24:34,194
the no intent.

1468
01:24:34,277 --> 01:24:37,614
There was no intent whatsoever there.

1469
01:24:38,615 --> 01:24:41,701
I have excessive amounts of remorse

1470
01:24:41,785 --> 01:24:46,623
for Dominic, Davion,
both of their families.

1471
01:24:47,457 --> 01:24:51,169
This was not intentional,
and I will do everything I can to

1472
01:24:52,253 --> 01:24:55,423
prove that to the world and the families.

1473
01:24:59,969 --> 01:25:01,054
And that's it.

1474
01:25:02,931 --> 01:25:04,808
I have the capacity for forgiveness.

1475
01:25:04,891 --> 01:25:07,018
I just wanna know the truth
of what happened that night.

1476
01:25:07,685 --> 01:25:09,854
And I would be eternally grateful

1477
01:25:09,938 --> 01:25:14,067
for her to actually tell us
how those last few moments were.

1478
01:25:14,150 --> 01:25:18,905
No matter how… damaging to her
they might be to say,

1479
01:25:18,988 --> 01:25:21,199
just to say the truth and let us know

1480
01:25:21,282 --> 01:25:24,244
and let us grieve properly
and have some closure.

1481
01:25:24,327 --> 01:25:26,329
[somber music playing]

1482
01:25:27,038 --> 01:25:30,125
[Natalie] We're not done yet, okay?
And I can't talk about anything.

1483
01:25:31,126 --> 01:25:36,214
So just… have trust in…
have trust in us, please.

1484
01:25:36,297 --> 01:25:40,677
Okay? But I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

1485
01:25:44,639 --> 01:25:46,891
It's tragic, what happened
to those two boys.

1486
01:25:47,809 --> 01:25:50,145
But think if it was your kid.

1487
01:25:50,228 --> 01:25:51,688
What if Mackenzie was yours?

1488
01:25:52,522 --> 01:25:53,690
How would you feel?

1489
01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:56,901
I'm gonna fight for my daughter.

1490
01:25:57,652 --> 01:25:59,946
And we have ironclad evidence

1491
01:26:00,029 --> 01:26:03,867
that disputes what was said in the trial.

1492
01:26:04,576 --> 01:26:05,952
This is the freeway incident…

1493
01:26:08,037 --> 01:26:11,791
where Mackenzie was accused of threatening
to crash the car two weeks before.

1494
01:26:12,417 --> 01:26:17,338
These are text messages between Mackenzie
and Dom's mom, Christine Russo.

1495
01:26:17,422 --> 01:26:19,757
Mackenzie says, "Can you come get Dom?"

1496
01:26:19,841 --> 01:26:23,219
"He just grabbed my steering wheel,
trying to spin out my car and hurt me."

1497
01:26:23,845 --> 01:26:27,432
Christine says, "Hench is on the way.
Calm down for now, please."

1498
01:26:27,515 --> 01:26:30,351
And then Mackenzie says,
"To be honest, I can't calm down

1499
01:26:30,435 --> 01:26:32,061
when he just tried to end my life."

1500
01:26:33,271 --> 01:26:37,192
She never threatened to crash the car
two weeks before the car accident.

1501
01:26:37,275 --> 01:26:39,194
He did. He did.

1502
01:26:39,277 --> 01:26:41,654
It wasn't her. She never
threatened to do anything before.

1503
01:26:41,738 --> 01:26:45,283
So that removes that whole prior intent

1504
01:26:46,117 --> 01:26:47,577
from their story.

1505
01:26:47,660 --> 01:26:50,580
These messages are now part of an appeal

1506
01:26:50,663 --> 01:26:53,166
based on evidence
that was never brought into the trial.

1507
01:26:53,249 --> 01:26:57,170
Mackenzie Shirilla, who is in prison
for killing two people in a car crash,

1508
01:26:57,253 --> 01:26:58,713
is asking for a new trial.

1509
01:26:58,796 --> 01:27:00,924
[Natalie] We're gonna fight, fight, fight.

1510
01:27:01,424 --> 01:27:03,176
If I have to drive to the White House…

1511
01:27:03,676 --> 01:27:06,679
I'll take it all the way
to the Supreme Court if I have to.

1512
01:27:07,430 --> 01:27:09,641
There's the Free Mackenzie Facebook page
somebody started.

1513
01:27:09,724 --> 01:27:12,185
Thank you again,
whoever all these people are.

1514
01:27:12,268 --> 01:27:15,021
And all the YouTube videos
sharing all the information.

1515
01:27:15,104 --> 01:27:18,191
It is very probable
that a car malfunctions.

1516
01:27:18,274 --> 01:27:19,734
-Yes.
-Or someone passes out.

1517
01:27:19,817 --> 01:27:22,904
The black box tells us
what happened, not why.

1518
01:27:22,987 --> 01:27:24,113
It wasn't intentional.

1519
01:27:24,197 --> 01:27:26,950
[man 1] Look at that face.
Someone's gotta pardon her.

1520
01:27:27,033 --> 01:27:29,369
Mackenzie is too pretty for prison.

1521
01:27:29,452 --> 01:27:32,538
We're all in this together.
Get her the hell out of there.

1522
01:27:33,122 --> 01:27:35,792
[man 2] Follow Free Mackenzie Shirilla
on Facebook.

1523
01:27:37,252 --> 01:27:38,628
[music fades]

1524
01:27:38,711 --> 01:27:42,340
[Christine] Every time a news thing
comes out, the Free Kenzie page,

1525
01:27:42,423 --> 01:27:45,134
an appeal comes out,
it stirs everything back up.

1526
01:27:45,218 --> 01:27:47,845
She got 15 years.
That's nothing. You know?

1527
01:27:47,929 --> 01:27:49,931
Sit down, be quiet, and leave us alone.

1528
01:27:50,431 --> 01:27:52,517
If they were truly sorry,
I think they would do that.

1529
01:27:53,518 --> 01:27:55,645
She could get out at thirty…

1530
01:27:55,728 --> 01:27:58,147
-What? Thirty-two, thirty-three?
-Mm-hmm.

1531
01:27:58,231 --> 01:28:01,401
Yeah, and start a family
and live a happy life, you know?

1532
01:28:03,069 --> 01:28:05,238
[Frank] At least they can still
go see their daughter.

1533
01:28:05,905 --> 01:28:08,283
Given she's in jail,
at least they can still go visit her.

1534
01:28:08,366 --> 01:28:09,826
'Cause we can't visit Dom.

1535
01:28:11,286 --> 01:28:13,413
[Scott] I think
the worst thing that could happen

1536
01:28:13,496 --> 01:28:19,127
is for Mackenzie to be babied
for the next 15 years by her parents

1537
01:28:19,210 --> 01:28:22,005
and told she did nothing wrong
and she'd never made a mistake in her life

1538
01:28:22,088 --> 01:28:25,258
and she's the perfect girl
and she's been completely wronged

1539
01:28:25,341 --> 01:28:28,261
and the system's against her
and the prosecution lied.

1540
01:28:28,344 --> 01:28:31,139
All those things
are damaging to her psyche.

1541
01:28:32,223 --> 01:28:36,561
Those aren't gonna help her adjust
and become a well-functioning adult

1542
01:28:36,644 --> 01:28:38,021
when she gets out of prison.

1543
01:28:39,272 --> 01:28:41,357
But just because of who you are
when you're 17 or 18,

1544
01:28:41,441 --> 01:28:44,027
does that mean that's who you're gonna be
for the rest of your life?

1545
01:28:44,652 --> 01:28:49,157
And it's my biggest hope
that she does change.

1546
01:28:49,657 --> 01:28:51,659
[somber music playing]

1547
01:29:09,302 --> 01:29:13,639
[Davyne] What can you do to help?
He wanted to go to barber school so bad.

1548
01:29:14,349 --> 01:29:18,019
We have a barber scholarship
under Davion's name,

1549
01:29:18,102 --> 01:29:21,647
and it's basically
where you can donate money

1550
01:29:21,731 --> 01:29:25,193
to a scholarship
that will go to a student in need.

1551
01:29:25,777 --> 01:29:29,739
[reporter] The plan is to send at least
one person to barber school fully paid.

1552
01:29:29,822 --> 01:29:32,450
But if their GoFundMe campaign
raises enough money,

1553
01:29:32,533 --> 01:29:35,578
they'll be sending people to school
for years to come.

1554
01:29:36,079 --> 01:29:39,874
[Scott] There is a handful of days
in those two and a half years

1555
01:29:40,666 --> 01:29:41,751
that I've been happy.

1556
01:29:41,834 --> 01:29:45,171
Like genuinely, really happy.

1557
01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:48,800
The day we handed out the scholarship
was one of those days.

1558
01:29:49,467 --> 01:29:50,718
Congratulations.

1559
01:29:51,260 --> 01:29:53,262
[man] Whoo!

1560
01:29:53,346 --> 01:29:56,933
It's just good to see that someone,
even if they're not Davion,

1561
01:29:57,016 --> 01:29:59,644
achieve their passion and their dream

1562
01:29:59,727 --> 01:30:01,854
and to see how far that takes them.

1563
01:30:03,106 --> 01:30:06,442
[Scott] People are gonna know his name
and people are gonna know his heart

1564
01:30:06,526 --> 01:30:08,194
and who he truly was.

1565
01:30:08,277 --> 01:30:11,280
And if we could do that,
then Davion does have a future.

1566
01:30:11,364 --> 01:30:14,700
And he might not be in it,
but his memory sure is.

1567
01:30:16,119 --> 01:30:20,623
-♪ Oh, you got power ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1568
01:30:20,706 --> 01:30:24,293
-♪ Superpowers ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1569
01:30:24,377 --> 01:30:27,338
♪ Do you even know how to wield them? ♪

1570
01:30:28,339 --> 01:30:31,717
-♪ All God's children ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1571
01:30:31,801 --> 01:30:34,137
♪ Are special ♪

1572
01:30:34,220 --> 01:30:37,265
-♪ But not like you ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1573
01:30:37,348 --> 01:30:39,475
♪ No, not like you ♪

1574
01:30:39,976 --> 01:30:44,647
-♪ You're just like a flower ♪
-♪ Flower ♪

1575
01:30:44,730 --> 01:30:47,108
♪ You're ever giving ♪

1576
01:30:47,191 --> 01:30:49,277
♪ Ooh ♪

1577
01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:51,737
♪ That's a given ♪

1578
01:30:52,321 --> 01:30:55,741
-♪ All God's children ♪
-♪ All God's children ♪

1579
01:30:55,825 --> 01:30:58,202
♪ Are special ♪

1580
01:30:58,286 --> 01:31:01,038
-♪ But not like you ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1581
01:31:01,122 --> 01:31:04,417
-♪ No, not like you ♪
-♪ Ooh ♪

1582
01:31:05,209 --> 01:31:06,669
-♪ Ooh ♪
-♪ Lift it, lift it ♪

1583
01:31:06,752 --> 01:31:09,464
♪ Lift your head ♪

1584
01:31:09,547 --> 01:31:16,554
♪ To the sky ♪

1585
01:31:21,267 --> 01:31:23,269
[somber music playing]

1586
01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:28,042
[music fades]