Mackenzie Shirilla demanded her iPad during her stay in prison and even complained about the jail food.
Mackenzie Shirilla is once again trending all over the internet ever since Netflix aired The Crash, documenting her harrowing case, in which she was convicted of double murder. For the unversed, Shirilla first came to the limelight in 2022 when she was arrested after she crashed her car into the building, killing her boyfriend, Dominic Russo and their friend, Davion Flanagan. After her trial, Shirilla was found guilty of 12 felony charges, including two counts of murder.
Netflix’s documentary, The Crash featured Mackenzie Shirilla speaking for the first time after her sentence. In the interview, Shirilla looked her best despite being in prison and serving her sentence. Many pointed out how she didn’t look like a convict at all, and the confidence with which she answered the questions also raised many eyebrows.
While the world watched her break down during the final verdict, her attitude in prison was contradictory. Before she was sentenced and transferred to the Ohio Reformatory for Women, Shirilla was held at the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland. During her stay in jail, Shirilla had zero remorse and often displayed her diva demands during her calls to her mother, Natalie Shirilla. She complained about the food. Her ex-prison girlfriend, Shyann Topping, told U.S. Sun that Shirilla brought her own food with money her parents gave her.
The U.S. Sun obtained many jail calls she made to her mother, and in one of the calls, her mom asked Mackenzie how she’d slept the night before. To her mom’s question, Mackenzie admitted she’d been up a lot throughout the night and begged for her iPad. Mackenzie pleaded to her mom and asked her, “I really want my iPad, though. Can you call and ask? Please. Please.”
When her mom said it would be considered a special request, Mackenzie coaxed her mom into submitting it. However, when Mackenzie’s mom told her, “You’ll get it when you get it.” Mackenzie snapped back at her by responding, “Why the f**k man?”
Netflix’s documentary, The Crash, renewed people’s interest in Mackenzie Shirilla’s story. The Crash is not the only documentary to have been made about Shirilla’s case. There are two other documentaries made on the same, and they were praised for having ‘way more details’. There were reports that Mackenzie had been on the same road a few days before the crash. A user on Reddit pointed out that Mackenzie’s presence on the same road led the prosecution to present it as her doing a dry run before the actual crash.
When Shirilla went to the Ohio Reformatory for Women in 2023, she got romantically involved with another prisoner, Shyann Topping. In an interview with People, Topping recalled one of their conversations, where Shirilla boasted about her prison nickname in her all-women lockup as she said:
“We started talking and she told me her nickname was ‘Shirilla the killa,’ like, that’s what her bunkmates called her.”
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