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Mackenzie Shirilla is making headlines all over again now that the Netflix documentary about her case, The Crash, is streaming. She was 17 years old when she crashed into a building at 100 mph, killing her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanagan. Even after Mackenzie was convicted on two counts of murder and began serving time in prison, she is still maintaining her innocence, and she said as much in the documentary.
But one woman who did time behind bars with Mackenzie is claiming that in real life, she’s not remorseful whatsoever. Everything Mackenzie said in The Crash? Yeah, this former inmate isn’t buying it.
Former inmate Kat Crowder said that the version of Mackenzie in the documentary is totally different from who she is in reality.
@boujeebehindbars My take on The Crash from someone that was inside with Mackenzie Shirilla. #fyp #prison #netflix #mackenzieshirilla #truecrime ♬ original sound – Kat Crowder
Earlier this week, Kat shared a TikTok video breaking it all down. According to what she witnessed, Mackenzie isn’t exactly spending her days missing Dom.
“When I was in prison with her, it was at the beginning of her sentence, and the Mackenzie that came on to Netflix was not the same Mackenzie that I witnessed in prison,” Kat said in the video. “She thrived for fame, even when I was in prison with her, she thought she was going to be the representative of the prison.”
She claimed that Mackenzie didn’t show “one ounce of remorse” for what happened. “Mackenzie did not walk around that prison yard thinking about those lost loved ones that she claimed to think about every single day,” Kat said, adding that it seemed important to Mackenzie to “get in with the cool kids.”
Her life in prison sounds surprisingly lush.
While she can’t exactly live her life with the same creature comforts she had outside of prison, it sounds like she is getting the best of what she has access to, and Kat said that Mackenzie’s mom “enabled” her by helping her get it (probably by keeping her funds topped up).
“When I was in there with Mackenzie, all she cared about was doing her makeup, walking around in the yard with her one or two friends that were also very similar to her – young girls, social media influencer wannabes, thinking that it was a high school popularity contest,” Kat said. “She was starting to hang out with the lifers who were more institutionalized and harder.”
Kat has also compared her to Regina George from Mean Girls.
“I do say that she wanted to be like Regina George,” Kat said in an interview with NewsNation. “I mean, just the way that she did her makeup, the way that she, I mean, it was like she was going out to a club or something.”
In The Crash, Mackenzie was adamant that a medical emergency actually caused her to crash the car, though obviously a judge ruled otherwise.
“I just want to make sure that I’m big on the ‘no intent,’” she said in the documentary. “There was no intent whatsoever. I have excessive amounts of remorse for Dominic, Davion, both of their families. This was not intentional, and I will do everything I can to prove that to the world and the families.”
That’s not what Kat’s saying…
