JustPearlyThings - She RUINED Her Boyfriend's Family

Mackenzie Shrilla was found guilty of 12 counts, including 4 counts of murder, for intentionally crashing her car at 100 miles per hour in July of 2022, resulting in the death of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and his friend, Davion Flanagan.

00:00:00.000 Um, okay. So teenager who murdered boyfriend in a hundred mile per hour crash had a toxic

00:00:06.720 relationship with him. The prosecutor said Mackenzie Shrilla, a 19 year old from Ohio

00:00:11.920 was found guilty of 12 counts, including four counts of murder for intentionally crashing her

00:00:16.680 car at a hundred miles per hour in July of 2022, resulting in the death of her boyfriend,

00:00:22.380 Dominic Russo and his friend, Davion Flanagan. Prosecutors argued that Shrilla had a toxic

00:00:28.520 and tumultuous relationship with Russo, including violent threats. And she deliberately crashed the 0.55

00:00:33.940 car to end their relationship. During the trial, security video of the crash was presented as

00:00:38.660 evidence. The judge strongly condemned Shrilla's actions, characterizing the crash as methodical,

00:00:44.540 deliberate and intentional and purposeful. The judge stated that this was not reckless driving,

00:00:50.200 but an act of murder, emphasizing that the deliberate nature of the crash and its devastating

00:00:55.540 consequences. Some key quotes and details from the case include her actions were controlled,

00:01:01.620 methodical, deliberate, intentional, and purposeful. This was not reckless driving. This was murder

00:01:07.100 said the County common, please judge Nancy Margaret Russo. She had a mission and she executed it with

00:01:16.000 precision. The mission was death. Judge Russo added Shrilla's father expressed a desire not to see

00:01:23.540 Shrilla's life ruined and called her actions a damn stupid thing. Incidents highlighted in the trial 0.99

00:01:29.760 included Shrilla's threats to crash the car in the weeks leading up to the fatal crash and videos

00:01:35.080 from Russo's cell phone capturing vertebral abuse and threats from Shrilla. Shrilla had posted on

00:01:41.740 social media expressing her grief over Russo's death and remorse for her actions with statements like,

00:01:48.020 I miss you, Nug. I wish you were just going to walk through the door any second. Please wait for me.

00:01:53.540 So women are much more violent and much more calculated than we give them credit for. 1.00

00:02:01.020 And I think one archetype that I see in society is the enabling father. And this is the father that

00:02:09.720 constantly babies and caters to his daughter. He puts his daughter on a pedestal as a princess that

00:02:17.100 can do no wrong. To the point where you have a dad referring to murder as a damn stupid thing. 1.00

00:02:24.560 However, typically these dads, if they had a son that did the same thing and killed a load of women, 1.00

00:02:31.840 they would have a lot less empathy for them. And realize that when you commit a crime,

00:02:37.720 you have to do the time. But women are so used to being bailed out of their bad decisions. And for a 1.00

00:02:42.860 lot of women, it starts at birth. It starts at birth when their parents treat them differently 1.00

00:02:47.900 than the boys in the family. And really, we have such a gynocentric social order that we say to

00:02:54.580 young women, you are so special and amazing and awesome all the time, even if you've done nothing

00:02:59.980 to deserve it. And enabling fathers lead to bratty daughters. That is why you have the children throwing 0.98

00:03:06.600 temper tantrums. That is why you have the children doing things like this because they have a lack

00:03:12.480 of discipline in their life.

JustPearlyThings - November 01, 2023

She RUINED Her Boyfriend's Family

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