Ohio Murder Convict Seeks Kim Kardashian Help Amid Appeal

A woman convicted of murder for intentionally crashing a car at high speed, killing two passengers, is seeking help from a celebrity advocate while her legal team pursues a new appeal. Mackenzie Shirilla, 21, is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life at the Ohio Reformatory for Women for the July 2022 deaths of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, and friend Davion Flanagan, 19.

The crash occurred in the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, Ohio. Prosecutors successfully argued that Shirilla, who was 17 at the time, deliberately accelerated her Toyota Camry to approximately 100 miles per hour and drove into a brick building without applying the brakes. Data from the vehicle's event data recorder supported this account. During a 2023 bench trial, Judge Nancy Margaret Russo found Shirilla guilty of multiple felony counts, including murder, and sentenced her, stating the act was murder, not reckless driving.

Shirilla has maintained she has no memory of the crash and suggested a medical condition, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), may have caused her to pass out. Her defense argued this at trial. She has since attempted to appeal her...