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On the day of 20-year-old Dominic Russo’s funeral last year, a comment appeared on his online obituary. “I love you my nug,” read the comment posted under the name Mackenzie Shirilla—Russo’s girlfriend. “I will never stop thinking about you.”
Russo, along with his 19-year-old friend Davion Flanagan, died on July 31, 2022 when Shirilla—then just 17—murdered the two by smashing straight into a building at 100 miles per hour in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville, Ohio. Shirilla was convicted on Monday.
Now 19, Shirilla was found guilty in a bench trial on 12 counts including murder, felonious assault, and aggravated vehicular homicide.“This was not reckless driving,” Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo said at the verdict hearing. “This was murder.”