MAY 28, 2026

By Fran Hoepfner

Photo: Courtesy of Netflix

There’s little levity in Gareth Johnson’s Netflix documentary The Crash, nor should there be. The film investigates the deaths of Cleveland locals Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan at the hands of Mackenzie Shirilla, the then-17-year-old girlfriend of Russo who drove the three of them into a brick wall going 100 mph. Shirilla was eventually sentenced to two life sentences, one for each death, with a possibility of parole after 15 years. One piece of evidence brought forward by the prosecution was Shirilla’s social-media posts, of which there was an abundance. On the Halloween after the crash, Shirilla and her friends dressed as corpses. “I’m introducing these to the court to show the shocking lack of remorse,” assistant prosecutor Tim Troup said. But if there is a shred of black humor to be found in the whole affair, it’s when Shirilla’s friend Rosie Graham pushes back on the assertion that they were dressed as dead bodies. “We were dressed as Playboi Carti,” Graham argues, adding, “That’s his makeup that he does onstage, and I think most people my age know that.” It’s the most clear-cut example of the generational divides at the heart of this case, and what kind of moral weight, if any, to assign to the digital actions of the extremely online in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy.

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