Mackenzie Shirilla has been sentenced to years in prison after being found guilty of killing her then-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan.
The case stems from July 2022, when Shirilla—who was 17 at the time—drove a vehicle at around 100 miles per hour into a wall in Strongsville, Ohio.
Shirilla has repeatedly maintained that she blacked out and never intended to harm anyone. Despite that claim, she was convicted on 12 felony charges, including murder, felonious assault, and aggravated vehicular homicide.
Public attention has returned to the incident following the release of The Crash, a Netflix documentary that revisits the events and includes interviews with Shirilla’s parents.
After the 12 felony counts were brought against her in Ohio, a judge imposed two concurrent 15-year sentences, meaning the terms run at the same time rather than consecutively.
Because Ohio law treats murder as a life sentence, there is no fixed release date tied to Shirilla’s punishment. She is not expected to be eligible for parole until October 2037.
In the wake of the documentary, Kat Crowder—who says she previously served time in prison with Shirilla—posted a TikTok describing what she claims Shirilla was like behind bars.
Crowder alleged that the person portrayed on screen did not match what she observed while incarcerated with her.
“When I was in prison with her, it was at the beginning of her sentence, and the Mackenzie that came on to Netflix was not the same Mackenzie that I witnessed in prison,” Crowder said.
“She thrived for fame, even when I was in prison with her, she thought she was going to be the representative of the prison.”
According to Crowder, Shirilla showed little visible regret during that period.
The ex Ohio inmate added: “Let me tell you something, Mackenzie Shirilla did not walk around that prison yard with an ounce of remorse.
“Mackenzie did not walk around that prison yard thinking about those lost loved ones that she claimed to think about every single day. [She] walked around the prison thinking, how is she going to get in with the cool kids?”
Crowder, who said she has since left prison and now lives in Nashville with her daughter, ended by describing what she believed Shirilla focused on day-to-day.
Crowder, who is now out of prison and living with her daughter in Nashville, concluded: “When I was in there with Mackenzie, all she cared about was doing her makeup, walking around in the yard with her one or two friends that were also very similar to her: young girls, social media influencer wannabes, thinking that it was a high school popularity contest.
“She was starting to hang out with the lifers who were more institutionalised and harder