Driving Mackenzie Shirilla’s final route before the fatal crash that killed two teens
‘Hell on wheels’ killer Mackenzie Shirilla learns fate after latest bid for freedom
The highest court in Ohio has again slapped down “hell on wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla‘s bid to have her case reopened — marking the end of her appeals in the state.
The latest legal blow to Shirilla — who is serving 15 years to life behind bars for intentionally slamming her car into a building, killing her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and a close pal, Davion Flanagan, in 2022 — was handed down Tuesday.
“It is ordered by the court that the motion for reconsideration in this case is denied,” Supreme Court of Ohio Chief Justice Sharon L. Kennedy penned, according to the ruling obtained by WOIO.
The decision marks the end of Shirilla’s desperate attempts at freedom, according to WJW.
Shirilla’s attorneys filed a motion on July 6 requesting the Buckeye State’s top court reconsider hearing her appeals, which were denied back in June.
The Ohio Supreme Court denied a request to review Shirilla’s post-conviction appeals on June 23 — ruling that the petition was filed late and the trial court lacked jurisdiction to excuse the delay, WOIO reported.
Meanwhile, a petition was also filed in federal court, Ohio’s Northern District, by Shirilla, arguing that her 2023 murder trial and imprisonment violated her constitutional rights to due process and that her attorneys didn’t do enough to help her, according to WJW.
That case remains pending.
Shirilla, 22, remains incarcerated at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, where she infamously took a dead-eyed, pouty-faced selfie from behind bars.
She was found guilty in August 2023 on four counts of felonious assault and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide for the July 2022 wreck that killed Russo and Flanagan.
It was determined that Shirilla intentionally slammed on the gas of her Toyota Camry, flooring it to 100 miles per hour before crashing into a brick wall.
After being found guilty, she broke down in tears as the judge called her a “literal hell on wheels.”.
She was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 15 years served.
The killer’s first parole hearing is slated for 2037, when she will be 33.
Shirilla’s case was the focus of the hit Netflix documentary “The Crash” released in May, which garnered national and international attention.