Rotten Mango - The Night Of “The Crash” - What Truly Happened Based On the 90GB Police Evidence

Episode Date: June 14, 2026

19 year old Davion Flanagan’s family and 20 year old Dominic Russo’s family want to know what the hell happened that morning. How could 17 year old Mackenzie Shirilla drive her car straight into a brick building at 100 mph killing their two boys? How could she be the sole survivor?   This is the case of Mackenzie Shirilla who used a high speed, intentional motor vehicle collision to end the lives of her longterm boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend/roommate at the time, Davion Flanagan.   After the release of Netflix’s documentary, ’The Crash,’ interest surrounding the case grew but audiences were left with more questions about the fuller picture. Naturally, we FOIA requested this case to the authorities and received:   Over 4 thousand videos. Over 4 thousand photos. Around 31 thousand pages of text messages. Around 92 thousand text messages between just Mackenzie and Dominic. Close to 800 text messages between Mackenzie and her father, Steve Shirilla. Close to 2 thousand text messages between Mackenzie and her close friends. As well as 2 thousand pages of Instagram DMs. 2 entire phone data extraction files with hundreds of personal videos, photos, and audio messages. And 97 jail calls from Mackenzie post-conviction.   We have gone through all of it and we’re here to break it down for you.         Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bad a being baddaboo. July 11th, 2022, 17-year-old McKenzie Shurilla posts an Instagram photo and texts one of her friends named Rosie. So McKenzie is texting her friend Rosie, I am Gia already liked. I am Gia being the clothing brand, aka this huge clothing brand liked her Instagram picture. Rosie responds, oh my God, yes, we're so famous. McKenzie says, bro, we're going to be famous as fuck soon. before this year ends. This is from July 11th, 2020,

just 20 days before the crash where McKenzie drove her car into a brick building at nearly 100 miles per hour speeds, killing her boyfriend Dom in the front passenger seat and her friend Davion in the back seat. This case has since gone viral again

with the release of the new Netflix documentary called The Crash, where both McKenzie and her friend Rosie had given interviews to the documentary makers, and they do in fact become famous together. Rosie becoming one of the more hated, controversial individuals from the Netflix documentary with people coming up with theories online

that she knew ahead of time that McKenzie was planning this crash, that she drove by the crash site and didn't call the police that morning, that she was interested in Dom, like there are such a wide range of theories that have been circulating. Theories upon theories about whether or not Rosie and McKenzie are doing some sort of big cover, up and just a lot of questions. Like why did Rosie refuse to talk to the police, but then she went ahead and did a Netflix documentary? A lot of those questions are going to be answered today.

Our researchers reached out to Rosie and Bubba, who was also featured in the Netflix documentary. Bubba was Davion's close friend as well as Rosie's boyfriend. And we asked all those pertinent questions. But more importantly, we also asked, what actually happened that night? They were one of the last few people to see Dom and Davian alive for the last time. And they answered all of our questions. So with that, welcome to part two of the McKenzie Shirilla case. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mingo to support Change the Game for Dom Foundation and Davian Flanagan's Memorial Scholarship Fund. Both GoFundMe's are run by the families of the victims.

And we're going to include all of those, plus all the information regarding Dom and Davian's law. which aims to update Ohio's son of Sam laws in order to prevent violent offenders from profiting off their crimes. All of that is going to be included in our show notes. This episode's partnerships have also made a possible to support Rotten Mango's team of dedicated researchers. We'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available at Rotten Mango Podcast.com. Today's episode involves mentions of illicit drug usage, reckless driving, driving while intoxicated, self-exit, and possible domestic violence.

We did pull the FOIA for this case and literally went through tens of thousands of, thousands of pages of text messages, just detective incident reports, autopsy reports, photos, videos, Snapchat data, Instagram DM data, text messages, like tens of thousands of pages of text messages. So naturally, quotes and statements may be condensed for brevity. There is also a lot of discourse surrounding this case. And in order to explain the entirety of the case and the internet reception of things that have been released to the public, we are going to go over a lot of opinions, comments, and

speculations made by netizens, they do not represent our own opinions. So with that being said, I will say that this case has gained a lot of attention with the Netflix documentary The Crash. And we went through the entire case file. So this is going to be a pretty lengthy series. The Netflix documentary was about an hour and a half. And we've gone through, I mean, I don't even, it's like 5,000 videos, 5,000 separate photos, tens of thousands of pages of text messages, 97 jail calls totaling up to like 20 hours, hundreds of pages of police documents, 39 body cam and dash cam videos. We went through it all and we're going to break it all down.

This is going to be a five-part series. In the first part, please go watch that first, the previous episode. We went over the crash itself as well as the relationships of everybody in the car, the relationship dynamic and generally what people believe happened that night. In this part, we're going to be breaking down the Netflix documentary, the social media response, as well as what we asked Rosie and Bubba and what they've responded and all of the things that happened. It was like a two hour long conversation asking them pretty much every single question that the internet had for them. In part three, we're going to be breaking down the

main relationships within the Shirala family. There's been a lot of allegations and rumors and just conspiracy theories circulating online that McKenzie had a very strange relationship with her dad where she would text him in the middle of the night asking for warm milk and people think warm milk is a code for something else and there's just a lot to unpack there. That's going to be part three. In part four, it's going to be the entire breakdown, the journey of McKenzie and Dom's relationship

through their text messages from 2020 and then leading up to the crash. And part five will be all the jail calls as well as McKenzie's prison girlfriends who have come out on TikTok to talk about what their experience was like dating McKenzie in prison and she would call herself allegedly. She said that people called her Shirilla the Killa.

So with that being said, let's get started. November 4th, 2022. Four months after the crash that killed Dom and Davian, McKenzie is on the way back from physical therapy. She's in the passenger seat. Her mom, Natalie, is driving, and they get pulled over. McKenzie has her phone out. She's like recording all of this.

Her camera is pointed primarily at the side mirror of the passenger side car, so you can see an officer in the mirror walk up to the car, he says, hi McKenzie, and snatches the phone out of McKenzie's hand and you hear her whining, don't touch my phone.

You're under arrest. Why? We have a warrant for your arrest. Come on out. Why? They get her out of the car. They cuff her and they put her in the back of the police car.

They arrested her in the middle of the road? Yeah. They pulled over on that. Oh, what? Yeah. So does she know that, or she thought it was a traffic stop? It seems like they thought it was a traffic stop.

Whoa. Yeah. The officer tells her, you're under arrest for aggravated murder times two, okay? The officer starts taking off one of her handcuffs, and she says, could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn't break the bracelet, please? And she starts sniffling while thanking him. It's interesting. This whole bracelet thing becomes like a whole point of contention. Again, as she's getting booked, the officers are talking to her. What's your first name? McKenzie. Okay, McKenzie, I'm going to take off your handcuffs.

I need all the jewelry and everything to come off, okay? Because she's going to jail. I can't wear any of it. No, I need to take it off while you're in jail right now. McKenzie starts crying. I can't wear these. No, unfortunately, everything's going to have to come off right now. Once we know when the detective comes back and we know for sure what's going on, everything's going to be backed up here.

It's not going anywhere. She starts trying to take off her bracelets. And they look like the, you know, those like rubber, live strong bracelets that used to be big back in the day. But I don't think they're live strong. They're like the rubber bracelets. And later it's been explained from McKenzie's side and McKenzie's side. McKenzie's friends and family that these bracelets were all sentimentally connected to Dom and she hadn't taken them off since the crash and that's why she was crying. But a lot of people have interpreted it as, how are you crying about a bracelet when you're being arrested for murder times two?

Either way, she's very distraught about taking them off. They notice that she also has extensions, which she informs them that she cannot take them out unless they have pliers. After McKenzie's arrest, there's some interesting body cam footage that was in the FOIA file. her dad Steve marches down to the police station and he looks he honestly looks like a chill dad right so he's got like a white kind of white haired beard with like a full head of like whitish gray hair and he dresses super relaxed he's an art teacher he almost dresses kind of like a kid i don't know how to describe it he's not he's not overly stuff he's not wearing polos it doesn't look like he's obsessed with golfing on the weekends he seems like he's a little bit more creative in that aspect And I don't mean that as a compliment. I don't really ever want to compliment him, but he walks into the police station and he, I mean, obviously, understandably, this is a highly emotionally charged moment. But he's using his hands to passionately talk, yell at the police officers. I need to speak to my daughter because you guys aren't allowed to speak to her at all.

That's from her lawyer. He does not want you guys speaking to her. I can get him on the phone and she can tell you that over the phone if that works or I can go in and tell her not to open her mouth. How you guys did this on the weekend? Just, hey, there's a warrant for her. We would have brought her right here with no problem. It's just unbelievable. The officer says, the warrant was issued today.

So we executed it today. The warrant wasn't issued earlier. If you need to roll out the whole task to pick up an 18-year-old girl who can hardly walk out of a hospital, I mean, it's just beyond me. Yeah, Steve, lots of things are apparently beyond you, like common sense and good parenting opinion that I strongly hold. Steve aggressively asks the officers,

am I going to be allowed to have a two minute conversation with her? You cannot talk to her. What doesn't she get a phone call? Which like, goddamn, your daughter is not special in anyone else's eyes but your own. Like this is the process that they have to go through. The officer has to explain and spell it out to Steve Shirilla. She was just brought in. They're going to process her.

As soon as they get the time for her to make a phone call, she'll be able to make a phone call. We just need to advise her that she has a lawyer. she's 18 years old and she could speak that. Yeah, but she's a dumb 18 year old that just turned 18. All kids nowadays are dumb. Sure, Steve, if that helps you sleep better at night, okay? Just know that most of us didn't get into a fatal car crash that took two lives at 18 years old.

17, basically 18, but I digress. Steve continues angrily telling the officers, and these guys are going to take advantage of it. She's not allowed to speak to you guys. I'm telling you that. The officer straight up walks away, closes the door while Steve is still screaming. Steve Shurillo is still screaming. He's like, don't ask her any question.

She's not allowed to speak to you. The officer is clearly unbothered. And this is through his body cam. So it's like we just have the perspective of his chest. And he just walks to the back room where all the other cops are. He walks to his desk. And he says, ay, y, y, y. And he grabs his bag of cool ranch Dorito and starts snacking.

Yeah. Yeah. He just removed himself from that. Yeah, he's like, ay, y'i, and just started. snacking on Doritos in the back. Even on net, I mean, I just think the Shurrilla parents, if you, the Netflix documentary, we'll get into it a second, but they are just like massive complainers. They like to complain about everything.

Even on Netflix, they're complaining. I don't know why they needed nine or ten cars to roll up on an 18, 17 year old girl. Prosecution needed a show and they wanted to put on a pageant. In the Netflix documentary, McKenzie's parents also say, Natalie and Steve also say, we were just like in shock murder so they're in shock that she was arrested for murder

not reckless driving not vehicular homicide murder Steve says good luck proving it there's no what proof what proof do they have of any of this I know it's become almost like

an online joke at this point that documentary filmmakers love to give us an empty chair when introducing their next guest to talk and then having that guest dramatically sit down on the chair before looking directly into the camera, breaking the fourth wall, and then starting with their opening line of like,

let me tell you about that night, you know? That is exactly what they do with McKenzie in the Netflix documentary. But the part that the internet is freaking out over is not the slightly played out dramatic empty chair sit down, but rather the way McKenzie sits down. She walks into frame, prison uniform, hair tied up with a bun the size of a cantaloupe on top of her head. She's a full face of makeup and she almost like pops out her hip, arches her back as she sits down on the chair. She clasps her hands in front of her and almost like smirks to the camera.

Like it's just like a very weird. She's looking directly at us. The internet points out it's just she looks like she's on a coffee date rather than a documentary interview about how she killed two people. She sits down. The producer asks her. So could you tell me why you want to give this interview, McKenzie? I've never spoke before. I never told my side of the story. I understand there's many different sides to the story and different perspectives, but I just want to say my truth, and I just know myself, and I know I'm not a monster. What do you think happened to the crash? Through all the evidence that has been presented, the most logical speculation seems to be a medical emergency. This, like, sentence itself is she sat in her cell memorizing this from her attorney

because I have read through so many thousands upon thousands of pages of McKenzie texting and audio messaging people and she does not speak in this manner. This is like, this is my lawyer told me to say this for this documentary. How does a medical emergency account for the control of the car? So she's like the most logical reason is a medical emergency. So they're like, how, how are you able to control the car then if it's a medical emergency? And she says, I'm unsure because I have no recollection of that morning. But I know nothing about it was intentional.

The interview with McKenzie is short, or at least the included parts with McKenzie. I mean, she's not really saying anything of value other than trying to convince the viewers at home that she's a good person, which, I mean, I guess it's up to you to decide, right? But she says she still has no memory. She thinks it's a medical emergency. What medical emergency? She doesn't know because she doesn't remember anything. But she says she's grown and she's remorseful for all the things that she clearly doesn't remember.

She says about her relationship with Dom, we were just two kids messing with each other. And then as the years went on and we stayed together and grew closer, we would have probably been married by now. He was just so protective and loving over me. I just wanted to heal him and he wanted to heal me. we were partners, we just took care of each other. I mean, we argued, we got back together, we broke up, we got back together. It was rocky, but it was good. It was just we were in love, young love.

She says it's really hard every day here. I try to wake up and be the best person I can be every day, stay out of trouble. There's not a moment that doesn't pass where I don't think about them or I don't feel the pain in my chest that it's still like the void of losing them. And near the end, the producer asks her, is there any last word that you'd like to say? And she turns to her right and she's like looking at someone off the camera. it's her lawyer. They let us know.

They're like, she's looking at her lawyer, right? Her lawyer was present. She goes, did I touch on that? The right. Okay,

so everything is like, you think, I don't want to force anything and just say too much or sound crazy. I just, I just want to make sure that I'm,

I'm big on the no intent. There was no intent whatsoever there. I have excessive amounts of remorse for Dom, Davy on, both of their families. This was not intentional

and I will do everything I can to prove that to the world. and the families and that's it that was weird yeah is that like a fourth war breaking moment like she's that was so weird and the only thing the internet can really get out of this is first of all the sit down of her sitting on that chair was crazy her hair is crazy and the fact that she said i'm big on the no intent is just like people are having their minds blown on tic talk over that line what do you mean you're big on the no intent what do you mean by that

The Netflix documentary also sat down with Dom and Davion's family members. They focused a lot on the pain that the family members had to endure losing Dom and Davion. And it felt very transparent in the sense of the families of both those boys felt really vulnerable in sharing their journey of finding out that they lost their babies, essentially their children. So then feeling relieved to at least another child was able to survive, that McKenzie was alive and in surgery. There was almost like a relief because it's like, okay, at least, you know, and then feeling confused because they're like, wait, nothing is adding up about this car crash. Like it doesn't make sense.

Her behavior isn't making any sense. They're not getting the answers that they so desperately need and deserve. And then they see this evidence. And then all of the complicated just evolution of all these feelings, Dom and Davion sisters have been using their platforms to showcase Dom and Davyons' lives as well. And they were both included in the documentary. And it's just so frustrating to see the grace and composure

that both Dom and Davyon's family members, held in this entire documentary, juxtaposed to the Shurilla parents. McKenzie's parents, Natalie and Steve, who come off incredibly tone-deaf, entitled, and just fucking dense. I don't really know how else to put it, okay? They just are not likable either, and it almost, they seem like enablers. The documentary also brought in a few of McKenzie's friends who have since gone viral, and there were just a lot of moments where it feels like just watching the documentary,

from the perspective of just watching the documentary. It feels like you're on a different planet from the people that are on the screen talking because you're like, there's no way they just said that. There's no way any of this is real. For example, one of McKenzie's friends' faith states in the documentary that essentially she cannot see McKenzie intentionally crashing that car because she can't imagine McKenzie ever hurting herself.

Like that's just not McKenzie. She says, Kenzie loves herself a lot. She wouldn't even have a McChicken with me at McDonald's because she cared so much about her own health. I don't feel like somebody like that who cares so much about their body and so much about themselves and how they're doing would be suicidal. Apparently, a McChicken from McDonald's is some sort of litmus test now. The documentary also brought in two of McKenzie's friends that were there at the gathering

that Mackenzie Dom and Davion left and that was the drive home where the car crashed. Rosie and Bubba, they were there and they were interviewed and they have gotten viral. But before we do that, let's run through the night of July 30th and the early morning of July 31st, 2022. McKenzie and Davion had both graduated high school. So they're going to like a series of graduation parties. Now, in part one, I told you guys that Davion is staying with Dom while his parents are out of town on vacation because he just started a new job. He couldn't go on the family vacation. McKenzie is basically living with Dom, even though she's 17.

So naturally it makes sense that the three of them decide to go to a few grad parties together. They live together, they take one car, Mackenzie and Davion graduated, Dom is dating McKenzie. The first stop is Kelly's. They get to this girl named Kelly's house at around 10 p.m. Kelly speaks with detectives and she tells them, okay, it really wasn't like a crazy grad party or anything. My mom was there the entire time. In fact, her mom is in the interview.

And she says, Mackenzie, Dom, and Davion get there. And they're just kind of sitting off to the side for a little bit before McKenzie asks Kelly. Hey, come here. Kelly tells the police she walks over. What's up? do you trip meaning do acid shrooms no i don't do that kelly kind of thinks it's weird because mackenzie knows that her mom is home and like that's just not the vibe right now that's just not the energy so she's not trying to do that right now right here the conversation pivots but

kelly still hears mackenzie and dom making plans about maybe going to some guy named mark's house and saying things like should we do it tonight should we do it tonight so it sounds like to kelly that they're debating whether or not they want to do shrooms or trip or whatever and then within 20 minutes they leave. And Kelly's like, she gets it. She says that she thinks the three of them were maybe expecting like a party party. And it was just more so Kelly and her friends hanging out and her mom was home. And it was just more like a chill gathering. So they leave Kelly's and they actually head over to a different guy's house, Paul's house. The police interview Paul. And he says he's technically McKenzie's friend. So they're just trying to get like, how do you guys all know each other? And he's like,

Well, okay. So Paul is best friends with Rosie, who's in the documentary. And Rosie started hanging out with McKenzie a few months ago. But also Paul has his own connection with McKenzie because senior year, they both tried to do, he wanted to be homecoming king. She was trying to be a homecoming queen. So he says that she really helped boost his confidence during that time. So he's got his own, like, friendship with McKenzie. So he's close with McKenzie.

He's not really close with Dom. It seems like he's familiar with Davian, if not friendly, friends with Davian, right? Now, McKenzie just happens to bring Dom everywhere she goes, and Davion is currently also staying with Dom, and Rosie's boyfriend, Bubba. He's super close with Davian. I'm going to make it clear later, but just like hold on to it. And Paul says everyone loves Davian, which side note, Kelly, the host of the grad party right before, she says the same thing. Kelly says about Davian, all I know is he's a good kid. He just tries to make friends everywhere.

It's just something consistent that I've observed throughout all of the police interviews. everyone goes out of their way to explain how much Davyon meant to them. And it doesn't feel forced or calculated, but more so I think he just like had that big of an impact on everyone. So unprompted, a lot of people will just tell the police, like, I mean, he's like an incredible person. Just so friendly, so chill. Like everybody loves him.

Davian's mom says, you know, I would always say that he had an old soul because he was just wise beyond his years, just in a lot of ways because he's had so much experience in his short life. And again, we're going to go in depth on Davy on's family and what they've said, their foundation in a later episode. So one interesting thing to note is Paul tells investigators that he refuses to ever ride in McKenzie's car in general. She's just a horrible driver. The police are like, what do you mean by that? He's explaining, she got in a fight with her neighbor about like zooming past a stop sign.

One time at the carnival, she was going to drive me home and I was like, no, sorry, I'm good. Paul says even Rosie, the one from the documentary, told him, like, don't get in the car with McKenzie. she's not a good driver. Wow, that is crazy. Yeah. So they're like, okay, well, tell us about the gathering because they leave your house and that's when McKenzie crashes the car.

Oh, they were at Paul's house till five in the morning? Yes. Okay. So Paul was like, okay, well, that whole day before they came over, you know, I was at work the entire day. So when I finally got back home,

I was really tired. But I had to do something. That's like the vibe he gives. Like I had to do something because my parents were out of town. And quote, I had six people over. So in my opinion,

that was not a party. There was no party activities going on because I don't have enough friends to throw a banger. I'm just going to be honest. He says it was him, so it's Paul. Another friend named Nina,

Rosie, Rosie's boyfriend Bubba. Bubba is close friends with Davian. Rosie is now hanging out a lot with McKenzie and McKenzie brought Dom. So it's seven people. Paul, Nina, Rosie, Bubba, Davian, McKenzie, and Dom. Now, Rosie, Nina, and Bubba show up

at around 11 p.m. Mackenzie, Dom, and Davion get there closer to midnight because they were at like a different grad party. They were just grad party hopping. And it was a chill night for about an hour. Paul says, you know, earlier that day, he was kind of in a shitty mood because he did also break, like his whole car broke down. So he was working. His car broke down. He's not in the best mood. So he decides after chilling for an hour that he's just going to go to sleep. So he goes upstairs, leaves everybody downstairs because his parents aren't home. They're out of town. He goes upstairs and quote, they're still up and they're still watching. I remember hearing South Park playing really loudly.

And then I went downstairs again at like two, three in the morning to pee sometime like that. I see McKenzie asleep on the couch in the front room and they're watching cartoons. Everyone was really tired. It was really late. I don't think there was like any fighting or anything like that going on at all. Or at least that's what I saw. He says they all did smoke weed. They talked about doing shrooms, but they didn't end up doing the shrooms.

So he's like, I don't know. Like I went upstairs. When I came down at like 2, 3 a.m., McKenzie was asleep, and I didn't witness any fighting or anything weird. The next morning, he wakes up at around 10 a.m. to Rosie calling him and telling him that there had been a car crash. When authorities arrive to the car crash, they extract McKenzie, they find in her possession on her person, a baggie filled with shrooms.

And there are messages that police get between Rosie and McKenzie that night. So before McKenzie shows up to Paul's house. 6 p.m., McKenzie asks Rosie about going to Paul's. do you think it's cool to trip there? So McKenzie's like, do you think it's, you know, can I go and trip there? Rosie says, yeah. Okay, I'm trusting you. His parents aren't tweaks like Bubba.

They would probably let him have people over. McKenzie is unsure if she's actually going to end up at Paul. So she's still kind of debating and then she's like, is it okay to trip there? Rosie's like, for sure. Rosie texts, could we still buy off Dom if you guys don't want to trip? You should come hang out for like a little smoke or whatever. Okay, bet. Like, what do you need?

We might come. So Rosie says, yes, me, Paul, Nina. and Bubba need them and some bud. Do you not want to trip? Did you guys already trip at the zoo today? We're not sure because, and McKenzie's saying, like, we're not really sure because it's already so late. Dom says no and we were going to, but we didn't, but yet we can give you guys that.

McKenzie texts at 10.24 p.m. We're probably going to come. So like last minute, she's like, okay, we're going to come. Rosie says, okay, cool. And so we want $40 worth of bud, and Bubba wants three, and I want 2.5. Nina wants 1.5 and Paul wants 2.5. So the grams, it's reference to shrooms. So they want $40 worth of weed.

And then everybody wants like different amounts of shrooms. And then she's just like complaining. Like Rosie is saying Nina claims she just wants a gram. And then McKenzie is saying, Brett, tell her more like a gram is, it sounds like she's saying a gram is not going to get you there. So Rosie responds. Okay, fine.

She said like 1.5. Okay, bet. Okay, we're all at Paul's. I'm about to come. Okay. Send me Paul's address. I'm on the way. So they send the address.

they meet up. They get to Paul's house. And like all we have once everybody is at Paul's house is what everybody says happens at Paul's house. And Paul is like, I was asleep for most of it. And then at 5.30 a.m., remember he has the Life 360 app connected to his friends. His app shows him leaving Paul's house. It's McKenzie driving, Dom in the front passenger seat, Davion in the back. Five minutes later, the car slams into the building at nearly 100 miles per hour. A few things to note about this timeline. A lot of people do think it's odd that they left Paul's house at 5.30 in the morning. It's not like Paul's parents were coming home, so they're like, oh, we got to all get out of here before my parents come back. It just seems like a very early

time for them to get up and get out. It's been reported to detectives that McKenzie fell asleep at some point. She doesn't necessarily strike me as the accommodating type of person who will wake up from her slumber to drive Dom and Davy on home. Or maybe she woke up and was like, I'm uncomfortable. I want to go sleep in a bed. I don't know. I mean, some people also think she's not really doesn't strike them as an early bird so why go home at 5.30? Do you know if they have jobs or any places to go to? Yeah, so they had places to go to but all kind of within each other. It doesn't seem that McKenzie and Dom had any strong plans that morning,

but Davion was actually going to go hang out with Bubba again to fix up Bubba's car. Okay. It's like actually a whole thing because he was going to go straight to Bubba's house with Bubba. But then last minute, Davian was like, I'm actually going to go back to Dom so I can shower and clean up a little. Wow, that's crazy. It's just an odd time for them to leave, which has led people to believe and speculate and theorize that it would make sense for them to leave if McKenzie and Dom were fighting.

And they're like, you know what, like this fight is getting big. Like, let's go home and fight in private. And since Davion is staying with Dom, he ends up going with them. On the drive home, they're still arguing McKenzie in retaliation out of rage, drives the car full force into the building. But the problem with this is everything. person present at the gathering that night state that they did not witness any fighting between McKenzie and Dom. Some people think they're flat out lying. Others think maybe they are telling the

truth, but that doesn't mean a fight never occurred, whether it's just on the way home or whether there was a fight earlier that night and it just wasn't felt or witnessed at Paul's house, but it resumed in the car. Judging by McKenzie's text messages and Instagram DMs to Dom, I will say that she clearly seems like an instigator who knows how to escalate a fight in record time. She's kind of like a bomb. She seems to go off at the smallest thing and it's very explosive. So I could understand how a lot of people theorize that a fight broke out once they got into the car on the way home. Davion's friend who hosted his vigil goes to the police and he reports. And it makes sense. So he's saying like, I'm on Davion's Life 360 app. And he's like, because, you know, they're all just trying to

grapple with what happened. And I think Davion's friends had their own special set of grief because I think with Dom and McKenzie, a lot of Dom's family and friends were just, it was a lot of like, what could we have done to prevent, like, did we know this relationship was this toxic? What were the signs between their relationship? For Davian, it was more like, it's almost shocking because why was Davian in the car? Like, there was no, he's not, like, they're not that close to friends. It's just, it was more, I think, abrupt. They're trying to make sense of it. And one of the friends is telling the officers, and it makes sense with the Life 360 app. Because it's just like, you know, the kid is in the back seat. They're dating. They're having problems. They're fighting. She got

mad. She's always like, there's a lot of people that have come up to me and said, like, they always fought, you know, everybody. I could probably pull a ton of witnesses to say that and testify for that. Like, they always fought. They've always argued over stuff. And maybe they were fighting. And they literally hit the gas right when they got in that area. They're driving fine, you know, and then how all of a sudden you're driving good and then you drive bad for like two minutes when you're five minutes away from Dom's house. So he's saying it's just, he thinks they got into a fight and Davyon just happened to be in the backseat. He says, yeah, it's crazy.

And it's tragic that one good kid, I mean, they're all good kids, but one good kid that just didn't do any of that stuff that was just in the wrong crowd at that time. And he's talking about his friend Davian. They described that they feel Davian was in the car as, quote, it was almost like he was a hostage in the car because they can't really understand.

The friend describes, another friend comes in and is telling the officers, like, I was on vacation in Colorado, and I sent Davian a picture. And he said to that picture, like he's responding in the car. So they're going through the Life 360 and they're like, oh my God, he was in the car when he responded to his friend's Snapchat picture of Colorado. So they think this is their theory that Davian's friends who showed the Life 360 app to the police. They're like, McKenzie and Dom start fighting because that's before the crash. And Davian is Snapchat responding to his friend.

So his friend had sent him a picture of the Colorado Mountains and then Davian responds like, damn, what the fuck that go crazy? because it looked so beautiful. The friend tells the police they think Davian was probably on his phone because it's awkward when the couple are fighting and so it's awkward to just sit there so he was on his phone. Two hours later, that friend responds back to Davian on God.

Bro, we walked like two hours in a thunderstorm in the dark in the middle of the park. Cole said he saw a mountain lion. But by that time, Davian is gone. And like I said, another thing to note is McKenzie was the only one wearing her seatbelt, which netizens found very interesting because she rarely ever is seen wearing a seatbelt.

but that night she is and Dom and Davion aren't, so people theorize that they were trying to save their lives. The prosecutor even agrees with that theory stating, I think the boys were trying to save their lives. I think Dom and Davion were yanking on the wheel, grabbing the gear shift, and it was just too late. Dom's sister says, the car was the weapon, and it was just exactly like she took a gun and shot Dominic and Davion. Davian's little sister says, the most important thing I want people to know about Davian is that he's not just some backseat cargo. he was somebody's kid and he was my brother and he was a brother to me and my sister. Mackenzie's actions after the crash

have also been heavily scrutinized for good reason. She just, she keeps reaching out to Dom and Davyon's family members in the most bizarre way. So she doesn't reach out for a long time and then when she finally does, she's like, don't hate me, basically.

Don't hate me. Yeah. So in the 2000 page Instagram file that we got from the FOIA request, McKenzie is messaging a relative of Dom's, his cousin. September 22nd, 2022. So this is like a month, two months? Two, one and a half. Yeah. After the crash, McKenzie reaches out to his cousin and writes, hey, I know we didn't talk much and I completely understand if you hate me. I hate myself too.

I just wanted to apologize to you because I know you guys were close. I hope you don't think it was my fault. I never did this on purpose. I wish he was here every single day. He should be here. It should have been me. I don't want any sympathy, but I just wanted to apologize. Which is like kind of a presumptuous thing. of her to say, like, I don't want any sympathy for her to already think that she's going to get sympathy, considering you're reaching out to Dom's cousin, but she messages again. I also wanted to let you know that I was completely sober. I know there's been fucked up rumors.

I don't know if you've heard them, but they're all fucking not true. They're just making me look so bad like I would hurt my baby on purpose. I never would. I would have sacrificed myself in a heartbeat for him. Dom's cousin response, how fast were you going? I would really love to know the details. I don't know if you're allowed to share that info or no, but I would appreciate you. if you could share some detail. There's just no justification to be going 90 miles per hour if that is even the correct speed. Also, something that doesn't sit right with me is that you were sharing irrelevant things right when it happened. Reposting and liking things, like, you know, responding to the modeling agency and stuff. You haven't posted anything about Davion and you're just now starting to post stuff about Dom. And I'm not here to bash you. It just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, thank you for the apology. None of this will ever feel real. I just can't believe this has happened.

If you want, you can call me. I don't know if you can hear my voice, though. I'll try to make you feel better about it. And to be honest, I don't really remember the accident for some reason. All I remember is turning on the street and my vision goes dark. And it's really weird because I drive that street like almost every single day. And I have never once went that fast on that street. I can't say exactly how fast I was going, but it's not what the Life 360 says.

What does it say? 90? Yeah. I think it was faster. How would she know then? Yeah. Also, everything would indicate that she's going fucking fast. Yeah.

Like the way the car crashed. Like, what do you mean? it's not. I don't really have any pictures of Davyon, but I've been texting his family, and Dom is honestly affecting me a lot more because I was with him every single day for four years straight. He was my best friend and my soulmate. Mackenzie tells Dom's cousin, and you're allowed to be mad. I get it. I'm mad at myself too. What do you, like, she's like giving her permission to be mad at her to which the cousin states like, yeah, but you could still post Dom's GoFund me, Davyons go fund me. Like, I think a lot of people were just uncomfortable.

with the fact that McKenzie's going around saying, oh, I'm so remorseful. I'm so, it should have been me. It should have been me. And she's responding to modeling agencies. Doesn't post anything about Dom and Davion for a long time. Doesn't post their go fund means. Doesn't post anything to help, just like nothing. And then McKenzie says, I'm not allowed to post anything.

My mom is not letting me. Didn't the mom respond to the modeling agency? Uh-huh. There are text messages between McKenzie and Dom's mom. And Dom's mom is asking her, what made you start speeding? McKenzie just responds, I don't remember the answer. accident. All I remember is turning on the street and then my vision fading to black. I wish I could remember it. It would make me feel a little bit better. What's the last thing you remember? I remember turning

onto the street and then my vision fades to black and it really kills me not being able to remember anything. I promise you I would tell you. I've been asking my therapist why I don't remember and she said it's because of trauma, but I'm going to try to get hypnotized and make myself remember. Now, I will say that McKenzie sounds incredibly exhausting to be around for Dom's family while they're going through. Likely the most tragic moment of their lives that has been caused by McKenzie. She's busy messaging them, asking for things to help with her own grief. She's explaining to Dom's cousin that Dom's mom isn't ready to see her yet. So McKenzie's like getting impatient. She's telling Dom's cousin, like I don't know why Dom's mom doesn't want to see me. Like she says she's not ready, but like

she seems like she's getting impatient. She says to Dom's cousin, we talk every single day though, talking about Dom's mom. It makes me feel a little bit better that she doesn't hate me. I don't know. She's kind of short, but she's telling me that she's really sad. But she asks how I'm doing and stuff. Dom's cousin is like, yeah, that's understandable. This is so hard. McKenzie says, I've been trying to go to Dom's house because I just want to lay in his bed. So as Dom's parents are grieving, she's texting his mom nonstop,

asking to be allowed into Dom's house to lay on his bed. So she said Don's mom doesn't hate her. Yeah. Is that true? No. She hates her. Is it just Don't know? mom trying to get information? Yes.

Okay. Dom's mom is a criminal defense attorney. Yeah, very smart woman. No way. Yeah. But I mean, it's very smart women, but still beyond expectations for in this moment of grief to try and get things in writing. Like, she was very strong for that.

Yeah. She's sending Christine. So that's Dom's mom. She's sending Christine Russo messages like, it's been really rough. I've been crying all day every day. We're going to get through this together. Sending love. Another message from Mackenzie reads,

I will always be here for you, and when I'm out of the hospital, I can take care of you whenever you need. Another message reads, when I get out of here, I want to give you my bracelet that I made for you, but it's okay if you don't want to see me, I understand. She's just like further victimizing Dom's mom,

texting them nonstop to get confirmation that the family doesn't hate her. Well, newsflash, they probably fucking do, and rightfully so. Later, because McKenzie's not getting the responses she wants, she texts Dom's mom. I just feel like you guys all hate me, crying emoji. We don't understand.

That's what Christine takes back. That's been the hardest part for me, too. None of this feels real. When I get out of here, can I just go to Dom's house? I just want to lay in his bed or on the floor so I could smell him and maybe take some hoodies home. I also want to see you and give you a hug. I love you guys so much.

It's interesting that she's so hellbent on going into Dom's house to lay on his bed. It's such an odd request that nobody believes it. August 18th, she's texting Dom's mom. Do you have Dom's phone? Really want Dom's playlist. and I want to see the pictures he had of us on his phone, which feels a little weird. Dom's mom responds,

we will figure it all out when you're out of the hospital. McKenzie says, I would really like to see you and give you a hug in a bracelet. I brought him flowers for his room and at the memorial. If it's too soon, I totally understand. Everybody needs to grieve. I met his grave. They let me out of rehab because there's nothing they can really do with me

until I can walk again. Eventually, McKenzie is released from the hospital and she lets Dom's mom know, But she's also just like making the entire thing about herself again. McKenzie text Dom's mom. Hey, I'm out of the hospital. But also, don't let anyone know. Please don't tell people I'm home, though.

Because there's a couple of people that are threatening to hurt me and saying they have plans for me. What? No one's trying to kill you, McKenzie. Dom's mom responds, that's terrible. And I'm not talking to anyone. Who's doing that? McKenzie responds. This kid named Tyler Proctor and a few people I don't even know.

They keep messaging me on fake numbers and on Snapchat telling me really fucked up stuff. And it's really making this hard for me because I would never do anything to hurt any of them on purpose, especially Dom. Oh, and then, remember Blair? Remember in part one? Blair is Dom's best guy friend. And because Blair and Dom were hanging out and McKenzie was upset, she was like, oh, go take Blair's private parts in your butt. Like she was just saying some crazy stuff. She was threatening to kill Blair with a baseball bat.

She texts Dom's mom. Would you be able to send me Blair's number? I want to send him a video of him and Dom. I feel like it'll make him happy. I also just found a bag of Dom's old clothes from when he was a little bit younger. They all smell like him. And what is the radio station that you guys always used to play when I would be over at your house? It just, I don't know, just feels weird that she wants Blair's number.

Like maybe she wants to make sure that Blair isn't saying weird things to the police or that, I don't know. It's just weird. Like, why do you care about Blair? You threatened to kill him with a baseball bat. Yeah. She keeps going on and on about going into Dom's house and saying things like, yeah, my purse is over there. but I don't even care to be honest. I just want to go to his house to lay on the floor

and take some of the clothes that he loves so that I could wear them. Why do you have to mention that you don't even care if you don't even care? Exactly. Which, by the way, she and her parents both try to ask the police

to let McKenzie into the house. Oh, my God. To get her purse. And the cops are like, well, your purse was in the car. When the crash happened, we already gave that back. And she was like, no, not that purse.

It's Christian Dior. And it's like, girl, no, it's D.H.G. And also, you're weird. Yeah. They want something else. Yeah, I think they want something else, but yeah. Yeah. McKenzie asks Dom's mom not to delete anything on Dom's phone and says,

whenever you're ready to see me, I just want to go through his phone and see everything that he has of us. What? Yeah, she brings up going into Dom's house again. She's like, you don't even have to see me. To which Dom's mom has the level of patience I cannot comprehend. She responds, I don't think you understand how incredibly hard this has been on me. I haven't gone in there except to get clothes to bury him in. So for months, McKenzie is just exhausting about it.

Clearly, they don't want you in the house considering the circumstances that I think most people with a functioning brain would probably understand and grasp. Even if McKenzie feels herself, this is a medical accident, it is still understandable why Dom's family would not want to be around her. Because you knew you had a medical condition. Why were you driving? Why are you always driving while high as per your own social media post if you were diagnosed with pots and you are symptomatic of fainting. But McKenzie messages Dom's mom. I'm really

stressed out about people moving my things or making it look different than it was when Dom lived there. My top priority is just being able to go inside of that house and just be there for the day. It hurts that everybody but me is allowed in the house. It already hurts seeing all of his friends there at night spending time with you, but it hurts even worse seeing I'm the only one not allowed in his house that I spent the most time in. I need to get in there for multiple things that I have in there. I don't know why I'm not trusted to be in the house. I spent 90% of my time and slept out every night. To which Dom's mom later tells the police, she's begging me to go in the house. That's what's even creepier, you know? And the police are like, oh yeah, McKenzie's parents were

asking us to go into the house to get McKenzie's stuff. And so Dom's mom is, you know, that's what's even creepier that they're going to call you guys about getting her stuff. She has not once said, you know she said to me well do you think dom's brother angelo is going to go in there and destroy my things this is what she said and i said no angelo's not going to destroy anything and i said i can always get together what you have or something like that and she goes oh but i want to go in there she goes can't you just sneak me in and not tell anybody and i just want to spend the day there because november 14th was our anniversary and i'm just like you know yeah it makes me think what's even in there that she wants so bad.

McKenzie is also sending some wacky text messages. Like, Dom always told me he would want me to be happy, even if it wasn't with him. Mind you, she's sending this to Dom's mom. I can't even imagine. Like, I can't imagine. I'm not even going to go there, but it's just so uncalled for. Like, genuinely shocking. Yeah.

Wow. And she says, that's impossible because I can't be happy without my soulmate. Then she goes back to talking about, quote, yeah, I get her. harassed literally every single day, shit sucks. You know, is there any way I can get Dom's phone or just go on it or something? Because I need to block people because they're commenting fucked up shit on his TikTok. Dom has videos posted on his TikTok and I commented, I miss you, and people are harassing me on there. Specifically, this one girl that has been harassing me our whole relationship and I just want to delete her comment and block her. Then she adds pressure

to Dom's mom saying things like, I really can't tell if you hate me or not. I feel like if you don't hate me, you would let me come over or be there for you, be there for you. Or you would tell everybody that they shouldn't hate me, but I feel like you just don't like me. And I wish you would just tell me so I could stop bugging you. Dom's mom responds, this is all emotional. I can't tell anyone to do anything. I don't hate you. Gosh, I'm having a tough time with just not having my son. You can't tell them to not bug me, but you could tell them that you don't hate me. And it's hard for me too. I'm always having a tough time. He was the love of my life and I spent my last four years every day with him pretty much. I'm sorry, four, this is his mother. I know you're like

gripping the chair because it's infuriating. Dom's mom responds, my family will never be the same. I lost a part of my heart. I'm sorry that people aren't receptive to you, but those boys died at your hands. You have to understand that. You think I want things this way? My life is hell and I'm broken. He says, I did not do this on purpose. If I knew any of this would happen, I would have made sure it was me that died. I would think you understand, but good to know that you think it's all my fault. I do understand that nothing is ever going to be the same. We're in the same boat.

We both lost extremely important people to us. I try so hard to tell you guys that I would never do this on purpose, and I thought you would know that. Wow. I feel like her, it's showing now. Yeah. She can't even pretend to. I don't know where she gets this audacity. I think the audacity has always been there

She just hides it Yeah at first she's like Okay this is what I need to say And then you know she start coming out again It's like doing the most There's nothing worse than you can do Than take someone's life And then saying why can't I already said sorry

Yeah McKenzie is one of those individuals That has so much stamina in times of supposed grief On her end That she will exhaust people to the point where I don't even They just end up either having to agree with her or not talk to her.

That's my opinion. It's just so excessive. McKenzie messages Dom's mom again. Could you please try to help me get people to see that I didn't do this on purpose seriously? It hurts my soul that anyone thinks that and I can't sleep knowing that. See, she like end of the day she doesn't care about anyone. Anyone, yeah. It's about her and, you know, how this is impacting her.

And if you know. She has the audacity to go ask victims mom to help her. And if you know you didn't do it on. purpose, why do you need everybody else to know? Yeah. Like, just, I would just be great. Why do you need everyone to know? Dom's mom says, no one says that directly.

I just said, look from the other side. It's hard to explain anything when you said you don't remember any of it. I know everybody thinks that, though. I've just been having a rough couple of days. You know, I'm trying really hard to talk to everybody. Dom's mom says, it's been really bad on me too. Can we please try to fix this? All I know is it's never going to be the same, but I want to be able to come spend time with you guys.

I wish I could bring you guys closer. I think she means closure, but she writes closer. Or tell you what happened. If I could remember anything, I would tell you. I don't know why you think I would ever do this on purpose either. I understand I was the driver, but I would have done anything to prevent this. He's the love of, anything to prevent this except for fucking press on the break.

He's the love of my life and my best friend. If I could remember, I would tell everybody, but that's just how trauma works. I wish I could bring you peace. She then goes back to harassing about going into the house again. And so Dom's mom is like, I will get your things together. I'm sorry things have been rough.

I don't know where all my things are. I'm not allowed to just go and get my things, question mark. I understand it's been rough for me as well. I just don't understand why this has to be such an issue for me to go into the place that I spent all my time at. And I also want to make sure that all my things were not messed with because I know where everything was when I left it there. You're going to jail. What do you need your stuff for? Yeah.

Later when Dom's brother, Angelo, is being interviewed by police, his mom is also in the same room. So Dom's mom is there. and the police informed them that McKenzie's dad has been, you know, kind of a little bitch about McKenzie's driver's license that is in Dom's house because she wasn't even driving with her driver's license, okay? Wait, wait, wait. McKenzie's dad is telling the cops, like, we need to get her driver's license. Why do you need her driver?

Yeah, she doesn't need to be driving. What do you need her driver's license for, okay? And also, she wasn't driving with her driver's license. Anyway, the officer is like, yeah, her dad reached out to us a couple of times about letting McKenzie go into Dom's house to get her driver's license. You know? And the officer is like, I said, at best, you can come request an escort. We'll call Mrs. Rousseau. If she says, yes, we could arrange it. If she says, no, we're done. And then last time when he was kind of getting under my skin, I said, no, we're not getting involved in this. And so he had his lawyer call me. And it was the old lawyer from Columbus. I told him the exact same thing. I said, this is not a criminal matter. We're not getting in the middle of all this civil stuff right now. Emotions are high. The Rousseos are grieving. This is not the rightfully upset. And she's like, But why would anyone, like, why would anybody even say anything to me? Like, it's almost, she's like, I think the feeling is,

why does she need to let them into the house? Why does this need to be a whole thing where the police have to reach out to her? The lawyer has to reach out to it. It's like, no, I just don't want to, no, you're not going in the house. Yeah. She's like, I don't know, why is this a thing? Like, I said no. And then she says about Steve Sherilla, about McKenzie's dad.

She says, let me tell you that rotten son of a bitch father of hers never said a freaking word of me. I bumped into them at the cemetery. Of course, my place to have to bump into them rightfully. So this is, that's her place, right? Yeah. And that bastard never said, hello, how are you? I'm sorry.

Nothing. Nothing. Radio silence. Not a word. And side note, the only reason Dom's mom does admit to the police that she's talking to Mackenzie is because she also knows what McKenzie is doing. And it's very clear through the text messages. It's such an icky feeling reading those messages between McKenzie and Dom's mom.

McKenzie is effectively dangling pictures and videos of Dom, in front of Dom's mom. And Dom's mom knows. So like, if Dom's mom doesn't respond, McKenzie's like, I just found this picture of Dom. She sends a photo? Yeah, of like, in my photo book. Oh, my God. And then a day later, if Dom's mom doesn't respond. I just found this video.

It's almost like this is the reason Dom's mom keeps responding, obviously. And Dom's mom is like, obviously I know. Like she's dangling photos and pictures of Dom in front of me. She knows it's to keep in contact. And the cops sympathize with her and they say she's playing on your emotions and she's like, yeah, yeah. Dom's mom even mentions,

she tried telling me the other day that she had other medical conditions and I think it was just her fluffing to try in. you know, why wouldn't it have ever been mentioned to me before? Now he's dead and you're trying to mention this at the cemetery? Who is? She's saying like, she went to the cemetery. Mackenzie is there and McKenzie after Dom is dead is like casually trying to bring up like,

oh, I have so many medical conditions. And Dom's mom is like, are you for real right now? But what's worse about this is Dom's mom has a lot of very pertinent evidence. She doesn't have it immediately. and they all kind of start clicking together within the few days after the crash. But she has a situation with another witness that can back it up that Dom had called her a week before the crash and said that Kenzie was threatening to crash the car with him in it. You're kidding me.

Yeah. So we're going to go through all of that in the next part. So stay tuned. Stay safe. and I will see you in the next part.