An angry Steven Shirilla is seen arriving at the Strongsville Police Department following the arrest of his daughter Mackenzie Shirilla in November 2022
Officers with the Strongsville Police Department arrested Mackenzie Shirilla shortly after 2:45 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2022.
Less than an hour later, her angry father was at the police station wanting to know what was happening with his daughter and making sure she did not speak to law enforcement.
Body camera footage obtained by PEOPLE captures the moment Steven Shirilla arrives at the station and the three minutes he spends berating officers.
At one point an officer tells Steven that Mackenzie is 18 and can legally speak for herself, to which he replies: “Yeah, but she’s a dumb 18-year-old.”
Police arrested Mackenzie just over three months after the fatal car crash which claimed the lives of her boyfriend, 20-year-old Dominic Russo, and their friend, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan.
Steven tries to take control of the situation upon arriving at the station, telling officers, “I need to speak to my daughter because you guys aren’t allowed to speak to her at all. That’s from the lawyer, he does not want you speaking to her at all.”
He then expresses indignation at the decision by police to arrest Mackenzie on the weekend and to arrest her in public as opposed to calling him and asking that he bring her to the station.
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Strongsville Police Dept
“It’s unbelievable, I mean she’s 18,” Steven tells the officer.
It is then explained to Steven that the arrest happened that day because that’s when the warrant was signed by the judge.
Steven then accuses police of having a “creeper out on the front lawn watching” him at his home.
Police again attempt to explain to Steven that his daughter is 18 while also rejecting his demands to see her, explaining that she is not allowed to see or speak with anyone.
“Well, I need to speak to my daughter so that she understands not to say anything to you guys,” Steven says in the footage.
Officers continue to inform him that he cannot speak to or see Mackenzie and that she herself must invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
Steven eventually leaves the station while yelling: “She’s not allowed to speak to you guys, I’m telling you that.”
Before walking out the door, he adds: “Don’t ask her any questions.”
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Dom Russo and Mackenzie Shirilla in “The Crash.”.
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Police did not ask Mackenzie any questions that day, but in 2023 she was convicted of four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and one count each of drug possession and possessing criminal tools.
Those charges all stemmed from the fatal crash which occurred around dawn on July 31, 2022 in Strongsville, a city located 20 miles south of Cleveland.
Mackenzie, who was 17 at the time, was driving with Russo and Flanagan in her car after attending a graduation party and then visiting a friend’s house, according to a copy of the probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
She was driving through a residential neighborhood when surveillance video showed the car begin to pick up speed, according to the affidavit, and she later crashed into a brick building traveling at nearly 100 mph.
Prosecutors argued the crash was a botched murder-suicide attempt carried out by Mackenzie because of her fractured relationship with Russo, while the defense said that Mackenzie suffered from POTS — a condition that can cause dizziness and fainting — and had blacked out behind the wheel.
Mackenzie is now incarcerated at the Ohio Reformatory for Women where she is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 to life, making her eligible for parole in 2037.
There has been renewed interest in her case due to her participation in a new Netflix documentary, The Crash.
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