Father of teen killed by Mackenzie Shirilla in 100 mph crash doesn’t want her jailed for life

The daddy of the Ohio teen who was killed when his doped-up girlfriend smashed her car right into a constructing at 100 miles per hour mentioned he doesn’t wish to see his son’s killer spend the remainder of her life behind bars.

Frank Russo, 61, mentioned his son Dominic’s demise wouldn’t be meaningfully avenged by a life sentence ruling for 19-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, who was convicted of murder Monday after prosecutors mentioned she intentionally plowed her automotive into the brick warehouse.

“It’s horrible for everyone. Yeah, I misplaced my son, it’s more durable on our household, however I don’t need the remainder of her life ruined too, it isn’t going to make me really feel any higher,” the grieving father told NBC News.

 “The entire thing’s only a disgrace.”

Shirilla is awaiting sentencing after being discovered responsible of 4 counts of homicide within the July 2022 crash that killed her boyfriend, Dominic, and his good friend Davion Flanagan, 19.

She faces life in jail with no alternative for parole for 15 years.

Although Russo is heartbroken over the lack of his “go-getter” son, he mentioned Shirilla has already suffered sufficient with out being thrown in jail.

“She’s just a bit child. She f–ked up. She did a rattling silly factor however now her mother and father are destroyed, her household’s destroyed too,” Russo mentioned, including that he’d moderately see her get skilled assist than be locked up.

“I want there was a manner she might get some sort of assist, some sort of therapy.”

Regardless of having a delicate spot for his son’s girlfriend and killer, Russo mentioned he doesn’t consider Shirilla’s protection claims that she doesn’t bear in mind the lethal crash.

The courtroom was proven texts Shirilla despatched Dominic’s mom saying she needed to bear hypnosis to recall the fateful second she slammed on the fuel and barreled into the warehouse — shortly after the trio smoked pot together.

Shirilla’s mother testified that her daughter had been diagnosed with a disorder that causes her to pass out if her sodium and hydration ranges are too low, which might have been accountable for the reminiscence lapse and failed makes an attempt to cease the rushing automotive.

“I want she would simply inform us what precisely occurred and I’d be keen to cut back the sentence,” Russo mentioned.

Russo’s daughter, Christina, nonetheless, has much less sympathy for her brother’s assassin.

She instructed the outlet she felt conflicted seeing the woman her brother cherished be convicted, however mentioned that “justice was served.”

“Once you do one thing deliberately it’s a must to pay in your actions, however on the similar time … it’s much more horrible now that it’s in stone, that my little brother, his life was stolen, was taken deliberately,” Christina mentioned.

Shirilla sobbed in courtroom as a choose handed down a responsible verdict of 4 counts of felonious assault, two of aggravated vehicular murder, one in all drug possession and one in all possessing felony instruments, along with 4 counts of homicide.

Cuyahoga County Frequent Pleas Courtroom Choose Nancy Margaret Russo described the teenage killer as “literal hell on wheels” who slammed on the fuel in a deliberate act of homicide.

Prosecutors mentioned Shirilla mapped out the route and deliberate for a time when there could be few witnesses to kill Dominic as a result of their months-long fling fizzled out.

“She had a mission, and she or he executed it with precision,” the choose mentioned.