Mackenzie Shirilla’s – Messages between Mackenzie Shirilla and her late boyfriend, Dominic Russo, shared days before the crash, depict frustration and curt back-and-forth—without the threatening language that appears in texts she sent two years earlier. The revelation comes as Shiri
By the time the crash happened, Mackenzie Shirilla’s last texts with her late boyfriend, Dominic Russo, were already filled with everyday impatience—complaints about “Davion” (presumably Davion Flanagan) taking too long to get in the car.
The messages, exchanged just days before the tragedy, are short and curt. In them, Shirilla and Russo don’t appear to trade the kind of alarming or threatening language that many readers might expect when looking for signs of what would follow.
One moment does stand out: Shirilla seems to pepper Russo with the same question—“Wya,” short for “Where you at.” It isn’t clear whether she was repeating it because of service trouble or whether she sent it repeatedly in quick succession.
That last exchange contrasts sharply with texts Shirilla sent to Dominic two years earlier, where she told him, “I’m gonna kill someone” and “THIS IS WHY I J WANNA F***ING KMS.”
Since then, the public conversation around Shirilla has continued to expand after the release of the Netflix documentary “The Crash.” In the film, she is shown to be remorseful. Her former fellow inmates have said she isn’t the same when cameras aren’t rolling.
Among those allegations, Mary Katherine Crowder—who spent over six months locked up with Shirilla at the Ohio Reformatory for Women—called her a mean girl in jail, allegedly treating it like “high school popularity contest.”
Shirilla is currently serving two 15 years to life sentences after she was convicted on 12 charges. She is eligible for parole in 2037.
The sequence of messages paints a stark picture of contrast: curt frustration about getting in the car on one hand. and earlier texts containing explicit threats on the other. In between. the documentary portrayal and the claims from former inmates keep pulling attention back to what people saw—and what they say they didn’t see—when the cameras were or weren’t present.
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So like… she was mad about Davion taking forever to get in the car?? That’s it? Sounds like they’re reaching.
I don’t get how people are still acting like the documentary is the full story. If she was saying “I’m gonna kill someone” in earlier texts then yeah that’s scary no matter what the last few days said. Also “Wya” like… she was just texting normally??
Wait, was Davion the boyfriend or the car guy or what lol. They keep mixing names like it matters but I’m confused. If service was bad, why keep asking “Wya” over and over? And why is she eligible for parole in 2037 like that’s normal timeline stuff.
Netflix doc = cameras on = she’s remorseful, cameras off = mean girl?? That seems like one of those things people just assume to make it juicier. But the earlier texts were super intense, like I can’t believe the contrast. Two 15-to-life sentences too… 2037 feels like forever, so they’ll be old old by then.