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Mackenzie Shirilla has already envisioned a future career path if she ever finds herself outside the prison walls.
As the central figure in Netflix’s documentary The Crash, Shirilla has expressed that her time in prison might serve as a stepping stone for a new profession. In 2023, she was found guilty for her involvement in the tragic deaths of her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan.
During a candid phone conversation with her mother Natalie Shirilla, captured in audio obtained by TMZ, Mackenzie shared her aspirations. “I’m going to be a life coach and stuff,” she said. “I’m just going to be everything. I’ma do everything.”
Mackenzie faces the possibility of parole in 2037 after being convicted on multiple charges, including four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. She is currently serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life.
During the call, her mother Natalie offered encouraging words, telling Mackenzie, “You’re going to be able to help so many more people than you already were, you know what I mean? Just because of your experiences.”
Mackenzie’s parents, Natalie and Steve Shirilla, have maintained her innocence, sharing public support during her trial and during interviews for The Crash.
In court, Mackenzie’s defense team presented evidence that the then-teenage suffered from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), a chronic disorder of the autonomic nervous system that causes the heart to beat faster.
“It’s a blood pressure disorder,” Natalie explained in the Netflix documentary. “You can either get dizzy, light headedness. You can black out.”
Mackenzie reached speeds of 100 miles per hour, as seen in footage obtained by Court TV, before her car slammed into an Ohio commercial building in 2022. Russo and Flanagan, according to prosecutors, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Meanwhile, Steve said in The Crash that she suffered from a broken femur, three broken ribs, a lacerated kidney, a broken arm and damage to her carotid arteries.
For the past year, Mackenzie’s alleged ex Shyann Topping has been detailing their brief romance in a series of TikToks.
In a May 23 post, Shyann claimed that Mackenzie pointed out her scars from the crash and told her, “‘I would never purposefully do that to myself.’”
Mackenzie is currently serving out her sentence at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, according to jail records reviewed by .