‘Hell on wheels’ killer Mackenzie Shirilla said she ‘would die for’ Dom Russo before crash murder
Mackenzie Shirilla, convicted of murdering her boyfriend Dominic Russo, had previously expressed her willingness to die for him in a text message. The message surfaced amid a release of 32,000 texts revealing a tumultuous relationship marked by arguments and alarming behavior. Shirilla is currently serving a 15-year to life sentence for the crash that killed Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan.
- ▪Mackenzie Shirilla told her boyfriend she would die for him two years before killing him in a crash.
- ▪The crash occurred when Shirilla deliberately drove her car into a brick wall at 100 mph.
- ▪Shirilla is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life after being convicted of murder in 2023.
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US News ‘Hell on wheels’ killer Mackenzie Shirilla said she ‘would die for’ Dom Russo before crash murder By Katherine Donlevy Published May 30, 2026, 11:59 a.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google “Hell on wheels” murderer Mackenzie Shirilla chillingly told her boyfriend she “would die for [him]” two years before she killed him and his pal by plowing her car into a brick wall. The 2020 text message surfaced this week as part of a massive phone records dump by Ohio’s Strongsville Police Department. Shirilla and Dominic Russo were having a heated argument when she told him to “treat the girl who would die for you a little better,” the text obtained by Fox 8 reads.
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