Convicted murderer Mackenzie Shirilla is revealing her post-prison plans, should she ever secure her release.
“I’ma be a life coach and stuff,” Shirilla, 21, reportedly told her mom, Natalie Shirilla, via phone from the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, according to audio obtained by TMZ and published on Saturday, May 30. “I’m just going to be everything. I’ma do everything.”
Mackenzie is currently serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life after she was convicted in a 2023 bench trial of 12 felony charges, including murder, in connection with the July 2022 car crash that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russo and high school friend Davion Flanagan.
Mackenzie was 17 years old and driving her Toyota Camry at over 100 mph in Strongsville, Ohio, when she intentionally hit a brick wall, speeding up and steering her car into the building with her boyfriend and friend in the vehicle. She was the only one to survive despite sustaining severe injuries. She maintains her innocence and continues to claim she cannot remember the crash.
Her case has recaptured the nation’s attention after the May 15 release of Netflix’s documentary The Crash, documenting the moments leading up to and following the deadly car crash.
The 21-year-old shared her hopeful post-prison plans after her mom praised her for being a “pillar of strength” in the wake of the crash, trial and her subsequent incarceration. (Mackenzie is not eligible for parole until October 2037.)
“All the things you have been experiencing. It’s so much. So many highs and lows, up and downs. A pillar of strength, my love,” Natalie told her daughter, per the same audio recording obtained by TMZ.
“Yes, like, man. Like, I just wanna come home and just like … I don’t even know,” Mackenzie reportedly responded.
“You’re going to be able to help so many more people than you already were, you know what I mean?” her mother said. “Just because of your experiences.”
While Mackenzie apparently remains hopeful for the future, prison records recently obtained by Us Weekly show that she has faced multiple disciplinary actions in prison, including for a NSFW video call in 2025 during which the convicted felon allegedly showed her breasts to a visitor who flashed “a dildo sticking out of her pants twice.”
Mackenzie was also written up for a possession of altered clothing and four “nude magazine pictures” in October 2024. Prison officials restricted her commissary access for 30 days as punishment for those offenses, per the docs.
