‘You Have 3 Seconds to Answer': The Toxic Countdown Texts Before Mackenzie's Deadly Crash

better being better boo welcome to the second half of part one of the case of mackenzie shirilla in the first half of part one we went through a lot of what people have been saying about mackenzie shirilla's personality getting to know all of her school disciplinary records how she was trying to be a social media influencer a lot of her private instagram dms because we received a 2 000 page document of just her instagram direct messages that were a little eye-opening as well as the fact that once she woke up from the car crash as the sole survivor after dominic russo and davion flanagan were killed in the car crash she claims that she doesn't remember a single thing she doesn't remember pedal to the metal going nearly 100 miles per hour straight into a brick building never touching the brake she doesn't remember anything nothing so with that being said this is the second half text messages from almost exactly a year before the crash mackenzie tells dom maybe when you can actually formulate a sentence yourself and not just repeat what i said last i'll take this fucking conversation seriously to which dom responds wtf see i don't say anything mean you just purposely try to say hurtful things you say that i'm not going on vacation with you you say you're not going to do anything for me anymore like what you said you were going to break up with me too like that's all verbally abusive when you want to fix this on both ends let me know mackenzie responds i'm allowed to say how i feel and if you don't like that then that sucks why would i want to go on vacation with someone that won't even give me one gram of free weed so this is literally just her getting mad that he's not giving her weed he tells her he does give her weed like free weed all the time right he's like what do you you always demand weed from me i'm giving it to you like what do you she just responds too bad because i don't want your whack-ass weed anymore i never want it again he's like so we're done over that is there someone else like you literally got me thinking about quitting weed and she blames everything on dom now a lot of people might take this as the truth but i will say consistently over 30 000 something pages this is like a pattern of mackenzie anything wrong happens in her life she blames somebody so she says how are you going to get me addicted to weed and then not give me weed when i need it like the fuck so fed up with your shit i personally don't think that dom got her addicted to weed i think they're all teenagers i think that she would have discovered weed regardless of dom i don't even know if he's the one that introduced it to her or if they both started at the same time like she just likes to blame everyone for all of her problems to which dom responds kenzie i try to tell you not to rip bongs at six in the morning but you do it every day and she responds that's not the problem hun i give you free weed that doesn't mean you can smoke as much as you want kenzie you smoke like a chimney and you can't smoke as much as you want and you can't smoke as much as you want you're being mean as fuck to me right now even when he's trying to be level-headed and worried for her health she's just kind of freaking out on him she just kind of expects him to do everything for her even emotionally be there for her no matter what she's feeling and mackenzie feels a lot of things seemingly all the freaking time when dom is going on a flight to california he texts mackenzie that it's really annoying because he's in the middle seat quote i'm in between two people i don't know she responds wtf yeah right so he's thinking oh my gosh like she's feeling bad i'm gonna need to know if it's a girl he reassures her it probably won't be anyone to worry about i haven't seen anyone that is attractive at all just mostly weird looking people one person who knows the couple says none of dom's exes would even keep in contact with him because they all knew mackenzie was kind of crazy she's psycho a little bit but it seems like he's just expected to do everything even pay for her in text messages they're discussing a potential trip to new york city dom is asking her can you afford it which is like a completely normal question to ask because new york city is one of the most expensive cities in the u.s to visit so it's a completely valid question mackenzie freaks out actually maybe i don't want to go with you if you're going to be like that i'm not going on vacation with you so i'm done talking about this why are you literally being crazy right now to which dom responds kenzie you're being crazy she responds dom i'm filling out a fucking job application while you're spamming me dom is just so taken aback he's like you're trying to make me feel obligated to spend thousands of dollars on a job application while you're she responds in caps then don't question mark which side note about her filling out a job application mackenzie was fired from multiple jobs those who worked with her said that she was just like a shit employee for duncan donuts she had just gotten her hair done the day i think of coming into her shift so the manager tells her hey you know it's like part of the uniform you have to wear the duncan hat because everybody wears the duncan hat and like you work for duncan so you gotta wear the duncan hat and she is so offended by this she's sending like voice notes and she's like can you believe that they told me to wear the hat and i was trying to explain to them i just got my hair done so i can't wear the hat and the manager was telling her you can't expect us to let you have special privileges and treat you differently from any of the other employees like you have to wear the hat mackenzie quits on the spot leaves a horrible review for the duncan donuts location which normally i side with the employee but it's very interesting that she genuinely does not comprehend why it's inappropriate for her to be treated differently than other employees the concept befuddles her to her it's just like what's the big deal about her which like sure maybe if it was one time but she strikes me as the person to have a new reason every single time today it's the hat tomorrow it's the oh i can't help you clean something because i just got my nails done like it's it's always something one peer wearing hot at a fast food restaurant it's health code what do you eat so one peer tells officers later i mean she worked with my stepsister at duncan donuts for a little bit that's all i know and then my stepsister told me that she's a terrible worker she's just rude to everyone she just didn't care she'll post a list on her instagram stories a picture of a bag that's for sale a purse and then she'll dm dom this is a new bag it's silver he's confused he's like why are you posting it on your instagram story just in case someone wants to buy or send it to me um lol okay babe only four hundred dollars she also sends him a link to venus flowers the forever flowers and then she sends another link that are three and a half thousand dollars it's like three thousand four hundred dollars for a pair of boots dom responds those are so gas she responds i want them he's trying to be reasonable the price tag on them is crazy though do you think you can walk in them mackenzie ignores and dms him post a pic of us on ig yes what picture you pick i'll see what i got she texts him another time i'm at norstrom's if i see a skims dress can i buy it but like maybe the relationship is not always all the time one-sided maybe mackenzie does a lot of things for dom too in one text message exchange mackenzie texts dom i'm bringing home sushi and calamari for you dom says bet mackenzie responds i got sushi from this place and they literally gave me the most gross shit ever to which dom is confused and he's texting her back what place and what sushi are you bringing me it isn't gonna be gross right mackenzie responds babe i don't know what to wear tomorrow so it feels like she's bringing him gross shit like the leftovers even prom mackenzie says that she got a super custom very expensive dress that dom paid half of the entire dress he even rented a party bus just for the two of them because everybody hates mackenzie at school so she had no friends to join her party bus and there's videos of the two of them in the party alone and it looks like dom is doing everything to make sure mackenzie is having a good time he's singing for her he's trying to make her laugh he's you know they're he's trying to uplift her mood mackenzie says everybody told us we look like movie stars at night and if dom ever hangs out with the boys without mackenzie there's many a times where she gets so upset by that she'll have these very smart instagram dms have fun with a dick in your ass bro time like if you think i give a single fuck about blair so blair is dom's best guy friend okay there was like a because blair keeps coming up there was this misconception on tiktok that blair was a girl that dom was cheating on mackenzie with this is not true at all like blair is a guy right and there is no indication that they were having any sort of romantic relationship right so um just clearing the air on that but she's saying if you think i give a single fuck about blair you're wrong it's okay though just deal with your super important bro time like are you actually fucking blair do you want me to pull up to your fucking house right now with a fucking bat like fucking beat blair's ass and i'm gonna kill you then he'll really be scared to come around so be careful with who you choose first again there's no indication whatsoever that dom and blair are romantically involved um not saying that anything would be wrong if they were but there's literally none even though mackenzie's overreaction of a message almost seems like something is happening no she's just upset because he wants to hang out with his best friend to which dom tries to calm mackenzie down i'm not choosing him first mackenzie ever so calm ever the voice of reason responds because i will fucking kill you kill him on god this is all because he makes plans with blair but mackenzie wanted him to cancel those plans because she suddenly decided she wanted to go out to eat with dom so dom reaches a compromise that he doesn't even need to compromise on but he offers if you want to go out to eat we can go in an hour it's pretty simple he's like i'm not just going to cancel on blair but like we can go out to eat in an hour mackenzie responds you're literally pathetic his dick must be big if you like it that much i'll just go with someone else who actually wants to be around me and cares about my health thanks for literally doing nothing she's saying health because eating yeah but it's like many of dom's friends have reported that they don't really understand why Dom put up with Mackenzie they all thought that he could do way better with one of Dom's friends reporting to the police one time we were in this candy shop and this was after they had gotten over arguing and everything like that and she was like either buy me something or shut the fuck up no one's trying to listen to you he says Dom would always buy her designer and she would always post on her TikTok as if she bought the designer and she would call people out for like being broke side note that seems to check out because in an Instagram DM exchange Mackenzie is arguing with another person and Mackenzie is telling them mind your business and they come back responding and so this doesn't seem like an internet hater it seems like someone who knows Mackenzie in real life and they're responding I'm just saying it isn't your money if you don't earn it yourself I'm not trying to start shit I'm just so confused on how you talk shit on people being broke but you flex money that isn't yours and you didn't earn for real not trying to start shit so you don't even got to respond sorry I was just confused and then realized you probably would take it the wrong way so I say you're not broke if it's not your money that's all I'm trying to get and everyone agrees with me like ask anyone anyone who is real with you and honest will agree with me and yeah you're spoiled and that's fine just don't go around calling other bitches broke when you don't even have your own money yourself please be more self-aware and you say you hate fake friends but every time I've been with you or hear about you you're talking shit about someone it's just not a good look Mackenzie responds something along the lines of like yeah go work your subway shift baby you work at subway you're not even close to being in my league I need you to stop texting me right now they stopped texting her so she hits them back with so that comment hit close to home for you huh and they respond what comment bro all I'm trying to get at is reality if you do not earn the money you spend it's not your money so don't go around saying you hate broke bitches when in reality if Dom or your parents left you would be broke too you depend on other people for money and the fact that you say you hate fake friends but eighty percent of the stuff that comes out of your mouth is talking shit about someone else if you don't want fake friends don't be fake yourself is all I'm trying to get at Mackenzie never has a moment of self-reflection because sometimes like you can get into fights but still have a moment of like maybe they're onto something maybe I should reflect but she says it's okay babe I would probably be mad if I was broke too and she says baby girl I need you to stop texting me you're actually weirding me out like we aren't friends and haven't been friends since sophomore year now stop being worried about my life and go worry about your schedule for subway next week she's just um kind of a bitch I don't really know how else to put it after this whole exchange it appears Mackenzie goes to rant to another friend about it because she's dming her friend about quote-unquote the haters and the friend responds to her trying to comfort her ugly girls will never understand if you're pretty you're never broke so what if your boyfriend pays for you if I was her boyfriend I wouldn't pay for shit because damn what the fuck is that talking about how the way the way that person looks Mackenzie continues literally and she's trying to like talk shit on me like it's repulsive do you know how badly I wanted to say worry about your own weight instead of my pockets but I didn't want to body shame just in case I'm gonna be famous soon and I can't be cancelled ha ha ha ha that's insane yeah wait do you know when this was sent like a few months before the crash well she did become famous yeah Mackenzie is also the type of girl that absolutely hates when people copy her or even when she thinks people are copying her and she needs Dom to comfort her for the very big emotions that come with people copying her she says redacted got the same wheel cover as me like you know the fucking pink fuzzy wheel cover steering wheel yeah Mackenzie texts him so fucking weird like what the fuck question mark question mark question mark Dom is like do you think she knew she deaf knew how did you even find out even Chloe told me I accidentally parked next to her lmao like what the fuck Dom is like she's probably gonna be terrified because again that's how terrifying Mackenzie is just the fact that she found out that you have the same steering wheel cover and she's gonna be terrified that she found out at some point I don't know if it's the same girl or another girl but Mackenzie is telling Dom that she wants to beat her up to which he tells her not to get in trouble that's all he says he's like maybe not because you're gonna get in trouble don't get in trouble and she's upset no you were actually weird as fuck and do not talk to me Dom's trying to explain I just don't want you to get in trouble he's like the voice of reason but Mackenzie isn't having it she feels like Dom worrying about her getting in trouble is quote let's not defend a fucking whore you're actually weird as fuck and you can go fuck her if you want to defend her because I don't need nobody I'm not defending her it's weird as fuck I mean sure she stalks you why are you going overboard on me I just don't want you to get in trouble and I don't want you super worked up over that like she's obviously just super salty or jealous of you or something anyway it seems like at this point he's just trying to make her feel better and she's like and you obviously got something on your mind with them long pauses you're we're just gonna break up if I have to fight for you what babe I have no interest in her I don't know why the bitch stalks you well you low-key just defended her earlier so are you sure about that I didn't defend her I just didn't think you needed to fight her a lot of conversations seem to end with Dom being the voice of reason and yet giving up near the end of the conversation because Mackenzie will not see anything from any perspective that is not her own Mackenzie is in my opinion about as agreeable as a fucking nuclear weapon she starts messaging Dom on Instagram in the midst of a fight if I fucking call you you have three goddamn seconds to answer unless you're actually busy which most of the time you're not she continues to go off on him you are literally a fucking idiot you're about to lose the best thing that ever happened to you and you're never gonna find anything better than some other cracked out bitch who just likes taking dick in her ass you have until the end of day to actually fucking fix this and I'm not telling you how and if you don't fix it then I'm moving on with my life and I don't need you to be happy you have five seconds to say yes or no or I'm blocking you and moving on five four three she's like sending separate messages five four she loves her countdowns five four three two Dom finally responds let me type damn Mackenzie responds in all caps I don't care I'm so done with you type are you slow like goddamn question mark question mark question mark question mark question mark so slow it's going to be so hard to come back from this one especially since you like to lie and fake apologize just to get your way literally a little boy like I thought you were a man clearly not Dom is clearly confused because like he doesn't know what's happening he's like because I didn't answer the phone like I feel like you can't believe that I don't have any bad intentions I fought for you so hard this past year are you for real like I know you didn't type that in the five seconds I gave you like that's what you say are you for real n-word you have two seconds to send that text it better be good slow ass n-word like holy fuck Dom finally responds you're flustering the shit out of me it's hard to read all your messages and then send mine within five seconds like damn I don't care at all like you're crazy for thinking I have bad intentions Mackenzie responds in an almost unintentionally ironic way in caps you literally suck and just bring me down I don't know so she's blowing up just that he didn't answer his phone right away in three seconds yeah like she well she's blowing up for honestly like nothing ever it could be anything this is through Instagram DMs so this is he wasn't responding through text in the way that she wanted so then now she's come to Instagram DMs and she's just like ranting and usually like it takes a minute because they don't really give context to the fight obviously because they're texting each other but then once you figure out what the fight is about it's like absolutely over nothing and so Dom is responding I do everything for you I ask for nothing you bring me down you don't let me chase any of my dreams you always say that you come first Mackenzie doesn't respond to any of the things that Dom is saying she says I'm gonna give you till the end of the day to apologize and figure out what you did if you don't actually make this up to me by the end of today and make it good and make me actually believe you then we are done and I'm moving on with my life Kenzie it's not me I'm sorry but it's not me anymore you're doing this you're making us break up yes I know I'm doing this because I have standards unlike you now this is your last chance because I will move on if you you're gonna be anything without me you are a joke I would answer now Kenzie I'm not afraid of any of that anymore like I'm all or nothing I love you but I don't have to be with you if you're gonna try to do this to me once again she ignores him and writes back or else you're gonna get blocked and I'm gonna start texting people Kenzie you can be with me or go is that your answer so you're just not gonna make this up to me by the end of the night I don't even know what I'm making up this is ridiculous is that what you're saying Kenzie I'm not afraid of you I'm not afraid of you is that what you're saying I would answer is that what you're saying you have until six o'clock or you're blocked and we're done forever I will literally burn that fucking scrapbook zero fucks given I love you but I'm not doing this this is crazy I don't get it wow okay we're done last chance I've given you over three chances today this is your last chance to make things right and make it up to me by six answer now now now now Dom is so genuinely confused by this he asks her did all my messages send he literally he's thinking maybe she's not getting his messages and that's why she's ignoring him and just freaking out unreasonably McKenzie confirms yes or no I don't give a fuck about your messages Kenzie I don't know what I'm making up probably don't mean shit anyway I don't care because you're dumb as fuck you have until six I'm not telling you how to fix anything you're saying I talked bad to you is that what I'm making up yes or no okay you have until five now Kenzie yeah I'll make up whatever but I don't think any of this is really necessary are you serious like I know you didn't just say that how fucking dumb can you be this is a very small argument and you're putting our relationship over it I don't get it she later quotes him and says he said something along the lines of like i don't think she quotes i don't think and she says yeah this is not about what you think you're literally dumb as fuck i feel so bad how the fuck are you not getting that it's more than that and more than this you lie ignore gaslight dry reply i can keep going so she like throws out these words but i don't find evidence of any like gaslighting in the text messages and stuff if anything it's like miscommunication i really don't i would watch her reply i might dry reply sometimes four so it went from six to five to four she's like you gotta make it up to me by four p.m now if this isn't made up to me by four o'clock we're done this is my last text message he's like i don't gaslight i don't do any of that i never intentionally ignore you 4 30 dom responds this can't be every week babe indicating that this happens every week and after reading all their text messages um it's like multiple times a week actually it's really bad she responds you're right next time you do this we're done no explanations he's trying to get it through to her like i feel like you don't feel i love you what the fuck are you talking about look kenzie this shouldn't end our relationship all i'm saying is like i'll do whatever to make you happy but i feel like you're being unreasonable today because of your stress over your toe and your nose and school so like i don't know what happened this is me saying this like i don't know what happened but like these seem like non-problems your toe your nose like unless you broke your nose like why is she freaking out on it it's so weird if this isn't made up correctly by four o'clock i'm blocking you and we are done forever your attitude will change your attitude needs to change babe we're broken up until you decide what you're gonna do to fix this if the timer hits four o'clock and nothing has happened we are done your attitude needs to change and i'll change whatever i know you didn't just say that this is about you you you called me with a bad attitude first babe do you want me to break up with you for good right now because that could happen too and then mckenzie mass text him do you want me to break up with you for good right now do you want me to break up with you for good right now do you want me to break up with you for good right now do you want me to break up with you for good right now she sends that four times i'm not repeating it for emphasis she literally sends the exact same message four times and he tells her you're being childish i'm not entertaining it so we're done is that what you're saying you're not gonna make this up to me by four o'clock we're just gonna go through the cycle if you do not answer the fucking question you are blocked and i'm going to start texting new people like i'm so serious clearly you don't even want a girlfriend five four three two one dom responds why are you doing this like i don't get it i mean we can make it three like this isn't love if this is made up to me by three o'clock if it's not we're done this isn't healthy this isn't right like we can make it so much better than this we can make it so much better than this we can make it so much better than this you're right we can make it so much better after you make it up to me at three o'clock and prove you're gonna do better until then we are broken up i would watch what you say from this point on because one thing that i said wrong will result in instant blocking and i will literally start talking to new people dom doesn't respond for an hour before mackenzie dms him again i'm gonna take this as you're not making this up to me answer right now answer right now kenzie if you want to be in my life you will be if you want to leave i'm not stopping you so you're not going to change your attitude and make it up to me so you're not going to make it up to me yes or no kenzie you have a bad attitude too it's a yes or no question it's a yes or no question and this is about you not me kenzie no this is about you and you're making it about me you have a bad attitude babe you called me with a bad attitude first and i'm not doing this anymore i love you but i have to set boundaries for myself too this is february 20th 2022 five months later dom will be dead now i'm not singling out this like one toxic fight that happened months in advance where mackenzie is clearly suffocating dom over and over again not respecting his boundaries but i'm emphasizing that this happens multiple times a week like it even okay when you go to part four where we go through the text messages it would be like a five day long video for me to recount in full every single fight that mackenzie starts april 2022 for example it happens all over again and this is just from their instagram dms okay because the text messages are in part four this is from their dms april 2022 it starts all over dom resorts to dming her because she blocked his text from coming in and he's confused which side note all of this is happening because dom did not jump at his feet jump up enthusiastic about wanting to take mackenzie to the grocery store she says i want to go with you but i want you to try without me telling you you have to try you only try when it's too late so now it's too late he responds when was i not trying we've been doing this all day i don't care no you have not why would i want to be around you after you just did all this bullshit all day what have i done i've only apologized over and over again all day while you called me names you have two minutes to be at my house to take me to the grocery store 60 seconds 45 seconds okay i'll be on the way in a sec then he dms again on the way then he dms when he shows up at her house here even just two months before dom and davion are killed they're in another fight through instagram and side note by this point mackenzie is essentially living with dom she's 17 her parents have let her move in but this fight dom tells her kenzie i'm not gonna talk to you till you acknowledge what you did wrong and side note i don't want anyone to be under the impression that i'm taking creative liberty in the tone of dom's voice because there is a video fight of them and most people say that dom was like a very chill speaker he never is yelling screaming kenzie is always yelling screaming so it's not that like i'm trying to phrase dom's voice to be more passive like there's a literal fight where she is outside banging on his door and this is how he talks this is his cadence he's always trying to diffuse he's never flipping out there's one part where he does raise his voice at mackenzie and mackenzie intentionally records it but it almost seems like the man is so frustrated like he's like he's like stop like don't stop don't talk like you're saying disrespectful shit like stop but this fight it appears that he does not want kenzie at his house because she's being rude and mean to him which is completely understandable and a healthy boundary to set but she argues that he's holding his house over her head and she's not gonna let him do that which side note she does not pay rent this is not her house she doesn't pay mortgage she's not on the title of the deed it's also not like he kicked her out out of nowhere she could literally just go home to her parents where she should probably be living mackenzie escalates the fight i'll come today and take all the shit i got right out of that house so she's like fine i'm moving out for good kenzie i'm not doing anything like you have been being mean to me and have not stopped since this morning all you have to do is apologize to me about how you're saying hurtful things i'm done listening to this bullshit and i'll talk to you when you're in a better state and no kenzie i'm not holding anything over your head i don't want you here if you're acting like this so you're saying that i'm not allowed to come to the place i sleep at every night no kenzie i told you that you can talk to me when you say sorry and coming here is part of it so you're holding it over my head is what you're saying if you can't apologize or realize what you did wrong i don't want you around me what we're not gonna do is hold the place that you say i could stay at whenever i want over my head she starts a video chat he does not pick up mackenzie goes off to which dom says kenzie i just don't want you to come here and have problems i'm doing the mature thing and we're not going to be able to talk to you and if you cared you would have stopped too kenzie does not listen he's trying to de-escalate she says we're not going to play this game i'm not letting you hold a place that that i live in over my head you don't even care enough to be replying fast no kenzie i don't want you here because i don't want conflict and you never said sorry either i'm not going to apologize for doing nothing and i want to come over to eat not to talk to you i'm just going to sit on the couch and ignore you but there's you holding it over my head again you can let me come over and eat or you can that i brought over to your house and we can be over approximately three minutes go by dom hasn't responded so mackenzie writes not sure why you're being dry and not responding dom responds i mean you did call me the r-word called me a pig said a lot of nasty things and now you want to come eat my food without apologizing let me know if you're going to keep holding it over my head or not because i will just get all the pots and pans and stuff i brought to your house right now i'm not trying to hold it over your head if you can't respect me how do i expect you to respect my house he says that there's still coffee on his door from her which seems like he's saying like she threw coffee and there's coffee on the door but she ignores that and says like i said i will come get everything that i brought over and holes in my wall the holes in your wall are not from me so are you not letting me come what does holes in the wall mean punch yeah or like throwing things i would imagine yeah and so dom says if you can't prove to me you're going to respect me and my home or at least the very least i don't want you here like if you want me to leave your things outside i will to which kenzie says you can put everything in a box then if you're not going to let me come to the place that you said i could always come then put everything that i brought in a box and i'm coming to get it if you're not going to let me stay at this house then we are done i'm not going to be in a relationship with somebody that likes to lie and tell me things that are not true you are making this so much worse is this not what gaslighting is yes and like i do think sometimes how is that like how does she put it on him like someone gave you a place to stay now she's not going to put it on him yeah turn it around make it i don't know that's holding it over her head that's gaslighting yeah it's very manipulative i think sometimes i do have the problem with a lot of these encounters between kenzie and dom being categorized as toxic in the sense that i do think that if the roles were reversed i don't know if we would be labeling these fights as toxic i think we would be much more easily labeling them as completely abusive like it's just really abusive i there's not really a lighter way to put it and so dom responds kenzie you are like all that was needed was a simple apology you're not making the right decisions or acting normal so what's it gonna be so are you not gonna let me come to the place that you said i could always come is that what you're saying you're treating me like shit stop asking you questions or treating you bad what the actual fuck like dom is like what the actual fuck this is your last chance to let me come and eat or you can put all my stuff in a bin and i'll come get it right now i would answer right now she starts a video chat that goes unanswered she calls again and again and again and again and again and then she dms dom you just fucked up another video chat goes unanswered you have three seconds to answer or i'm coming of course you would rather me starve he keeps telling her she's being toxic but she keeps calling typing i would answer right now dom seemingly begs her quote stop you dead ass have 20 seconds this is why i'm not letting you come you're threatening and shit another video chat then another then another she calls eight times back to back to back to back he does not respond and then she tells him okay i'm gonna come he doesn't respond to more video chats she says i would answer right now like i really don't want to end this relationship but you are not a good person you treat me like fucking shit i need water and food and you're not letting me eat you are starving me you would rather me starve i'm so serious when i say answer kenzie stop please i'll bring you food and water so she's at her parents house now mackenzie has somehow made this about starving like you're at home you have fucking food and water what are you saying exactly so he's like i don't want to be around you because we're gonna get into a fight but i will bring you food and water because you're accusing me of starving you like i will drive to your house even though you don't deserve it and you haven't even apologized i'll bring you food and water and then i just need some alone time because this situation is only going to escalate so he's like willing to do all of this and still de-escalate i mean again if the roles were reversed this is like frankly a terrifying relationship dynamic that is just abusive dom offers to bring food water kenzie just gets racist instead she writes to him you need to answer right now n word i do not want to be here so she's talking about she doesn't want to be home at her parents what are you not getting you know that which side note a lot of people have interpreted that perhaps there was some sort of abuse going on in mackenzie's house i really um going through the whole foia file there's no way to definitively say that that's not what's happening but i don't think so she genuinely hates her parents for zero reasons like sometimes it'll be my dad woke me up because he was playing the tv so loud is he fucking r-worded like she'll literally be texting dom that so where is the parents how did she become this way this is crazy yeah and again like when she is saying in caps i don't want to be here i know that a lot of us may be from a point of empathy or trying to give people benefit of the doubt or trying to protect people who are 17 it's like oh maybe something's going on in the house and she's expressing herself in this really aggressive manner because she just frantically needs to leave um it that does not appear to be the case like she genuinely hates her parents because they make them feel like they're mcdonald's she thinks they're slobs she doesn't like the fact that her dad plays the tv too loud he's so dense is he slow like she's just yeah there's a whole birthday debacle we're gonna go into later she is like so adamant that she wants to go to florida for her birthday i'm just gonna give you a recap because it's so crazy she's so adamant that she's gonna go to florida for her birthday but there's a hurricane coming to florida because it's florida and she's like yeah i don't care i'm just pissed off she has her entire family and dom scrambling to figure out where to go next to make mackenzie happy and she's like you guys are gonna fucking fix this vacay and she's like she's going off on them and she's like dom you're gonna book me a ticket to cali right now and fix my birthday vacay and they're all just like trying to make her happy the parents are too yeah why beats me i mean they're just straight enablers they're so incompetent as parents if i was the president if i ran this world i feel like they could even be criminally liable in my fake universe because like how do you raise someone like this yeah it should be a crime to be this bad of a parent i think it's like worse it's like similar to neglect like you are neglecting their capabilities of growing up to be a good contributing member of society it's just so messed up so then she's just responding like what are you not getting you know that he responds then stopping toxic she does not think that these two things are connected she writes in all caps i do not want to be here so you're going to starve me is that what you're saying stop being toxic and i'll let you come he finally tells her i'm done so she goes off then please just break up with me then if you're gonna sit here and let me beg you for food and water then break up with me because any good man would never do this to his girlfriend i would answer right now you're making this so bad for yourself kenzie now you're being toxic i said i'd bring you food and water but instead you're trying to make it about bringing all your other stuff i do not want to be here why are you not getting that you didn't let me apologize on the phone you didn't apologize sincerely to me tom is like i just need 20 minutes just give me 20 minutes and stop being toxic and we can talk again on the phone if you apologize and i can let you come over but instead you just spam me for the last 20 minutes being toxic as fuck she says if you're not gonna let me come over here then i'm going to bring all the stuff that i brought home it's our house you always say that i'm not letting you hold it over my head when i put in the work to the house too i'm allowed to go over there and eat when all the food that i like is over there i'm literally letting you come over right now if you would just stop saying all this toxic shit and just leave it alone for a second and let me brush my teeth and then just call you back and apologize it's all you had to do you still have to apologize also i'm not being toxic i'm telling you what you're doing why would i keep bringing pots and pans and stuff for your house over if you're gonna hold it over my head and not let me there stop it just doesn't make sense you expect all this good when you treat me like shit you're still doing it you won't stop like what the fuck what the fuck and you're still not apologizing dom seems frustrated he just tells her let me just bring you food i do not want to be here can you not read and if you still want me to bring other shit i'll bring it later like she responds why are you not understanding that i do not want to be here then stop being toxic and arguing with me i'm gonna come over or this relationship is going to be over i'm not letting you do this to me just let me cool down just let it cool down for 10 minutes and then apologize you're not gonna hold uh over a house that we built together over my head what yeah she's acting like she's fucking martha stewarding this house like she's done nothing she also like she never cleans she lives like a slob everyone has tested not testified but they have spoken up about how she's a slob dom tells her like i'm asking for the bare minimum mckenzie responds and i'm asking for literally one peach and water but you can't even let me come eat oh dom responds and all caps stop why is this making you so mad i can't ask for food now so now she's acting like he's like this a threatening abusive person who's like controlling what she eats i'm about to be done texting you i told you so many times i'll bring you a peach and water and if you really want i can bring the rest of the stuff later but instead you're trying to say i'm holding my house and food over your head when i'm really not you just can't respect me and can't stop arguing and being toxic that's why i'm not letting you over this is when she finally apologizes a little bit not really she says obviously i'm sorry for calling you names my life was literally going to shit and so many things were happening which obviously you don't care about i didn't mean anything that i called you because you didn't mean what you said i'm not being toxic and i'm respecting you i've done nothing disrespectful except ask you for food you're still not understanding that i do not want to be here and you're still offering to bring me food somewhere where i don't want it when i could literally come there and eat why are you doing this you are treating me like fucking shit right now if this old pattern is going to keep happening then i don't know if i can do this anymore dom tries to set boundaries which like that was not even an apology by the way okay dom tries to set boundaries for the trillionth time you are being toxic by forcing me to do things i wasn't forcing you to do anything you could have just let me come over and all of this would have been chill like i need food and water so bad you don't even care dom responds with what mckenzie was forcing him to do he says you're not letting me get off the i said that all you had to do to come over was just apologize or leave me alone for a little bit to cool down but instead you said you can't apologize and then you said that i have to bring you all your things when i said that i could bring you a peach and water but i was only saying that because you were going to apologize see you're making it a loop because every single time i was telling you to apologize you were saying no and then i was saying well let me bring you food and water and a peach and then you were saying oh i'm holding the house over your head i'm holding food over your head when all i wanted was an apology so that you know for you to just come from you to keep saying but then you keep saying i don't care that you just need food and water but i've been trying to bring it to you this whole time and you just keep arguing with me see how you're still being toxic so he's like finally like letting it out okay he's like we're just going in a loop and i think that's why the message is so confusing because he's like i'm living in a loop i don't even know what's going on like this is what you're forcing me to do and after all of that because he's like all i wanted was an apology like that's the crux of his feeling he's like i just want you to apologize for being toxic which is completely reasonable mackenzie responds did you not read my apology like what the fuck like why are you acting like i didn't apologize when i literally just said she sends a screenshot of her half-assed apology just two seconds ago and then sends it to him you could have just read that and understood but i guess not dom is so confused he says you didn't read anything i said you apologized for calling me names and then continue to be toxic so you're not gonna let me come over now when i literally apologized dom clearly doesn't feel heard and his boundaries are still being crossed he writes quote you apologize and are still toxic she flips out like what is going on why aren't you letting me come and eat she keeps doing this until finally he texts her fine come eat are you sure yeah just don't be toxic i was never holding anything over your head i said i'd bring you food and water i said leave me alone for a second apologize and you could come over too but you didn't leave me alone i do appreciate the apology you did make though it's not about who's right or wrong it's about understanding and growth this is what dom says and this is from may 23rd 2022 just two months before dom is killed since davion is no longer 18 years old his parents felt that he was ready to be taken off their life app which is the app like your parents can track the kids locations whether or not they're speeding or they're driving or if they're in the car right now or if they're walking but instead of just getting rid of the app altogether davion instead connects it to his friend group so he has a tight close-knit group of friends and they all share each other's life 360 apps i guess it's like you know find my friends you just want to make sure everybody's safe you want to track everybody's locations make sure that everybody is it's i think the idea is very responsible now july 31st 2022 at 9 43 a.m davion's friends are on the life 360 app and they're confused because they see davion's location is heading towards the strongsville police station but they're like okay well maybe he's just heading in that general direction it doesn't necessarily mean he's going to the police station right within a few minutes davion's location shows that he is inside the strongsville police station or at least his phone is and they're like this is really odd like why would davion be at the police station at 10 in the morning like this is so weird they check his life 360 history and they're like oh my god he's going to the strongsville police station and they're like and they notice there is this weird incident that happened at 5 30 a.m at 5 30 a.m they get an alert and it shows davion's phone location heading down progress drive progress drive is technically officially called progress drive business park because it's basically a commercial road i don't even know if commercial is the right word it's more so industrial so you drive down progress and it's just a ton of these light industrial warehouses i feel like you've all seen those business parks where you've got the flex office spaces and then you've got the warehouses you see lots of big trucks driving through that road it's not massive amazon level warehouses but it's also not corporate in the sense of like oh this is our corporate location where we invite clients over like you're going to see a lot of manufacturing companies pipeline businesses plumbing businesses have you know locations down here like ici metals rafter equipment corporation pipeline development company like they all have buildings along progress drive it's just warehouses and their parking lots there's no residential homes no shops that you can stop in and grab a coffee no pedestrians it's just an industrial road why would davion be there at 5 35 in the morning with an alert on life 360 showing high speed alert with the top speed at 90 miles per hour and the life 360 app shows that davion's location is stopped for a point in time at one of the warehouse buildings specifically the pipeline development company it almost looks like he's gone into the building and he's not in the building he's not in the building he's not in the building with his phone why would davion be in this random warehouse building at 5 35 a.m and now a few hours later he's just heading to the strongsville police station davion's friends are really confused they're trying to like in real time piece together what's going on because they're like what's happening 6 15 a.m a 911 call is made there's a car that's smashed up against the building i didn't go up to it because i was on my motorcycle i don't know if i'd get stuck but they ran the curb i can see they smashed the sign and hit the building the car is trashed that's the direct 911 call when the first responding officer arrives at the end of progress drive so this is kind of a dead-end zone progress drive you make a right turn from the main road of pearl and you make a right turn onto progress or at least that's what mckenzie did and it's like this half mile drive it's some people call it like a straight shot but it's not really there are gentle curves along this road and the road is pretty fucked up i mean it's an industrial road first of all it's actually one of the best roads in the world and it's not really a good road the older roads in the city but it's an industrial road so you have lots of heavy trucks and machinery driving past it so the concrete on the pavement is not very level and i guess the city is thinking well we don't really have a lot of people driving through this this is like an industrial area and it's probably going to get messed up anyway so they haven't really fixed it so it's kind of a bumpy drive it's not a drive where you can just kind of wing it it's like you you'd want to have good control over your car yeah now at the very end of progress drive there is like a dead end so you keep driving down progress and then you're going to see grass a sign for the pipeline company and then the red brick building yeah when you get there on the road you can make a right or a left so it's a t intersection oh i see but you cannot keep going straight because that's where the red brick building is but that is what mckenzie's black toyota has done it has gone straight essentially flying through the building sign through the grass and jamming the car straight into the corner of this warehouse building the car looks obliterated you can hear the officer the first responding officer through the body cam starting to freak out and he's going straight into work he is booking it to the car as quickly as he's can he can he's panting and as he's running through the grass you see that there's just massive chunks of this car and debris scattered all around the car accident looks not accident the car crash looks less like a car crash i say accident because he doesn't know what's going on so to him like he's responding to a car accident it looks like a bomb went off the car looks like it exploded the only way to convey the extent of the car's state through words is it looks like the front passenger side of the car had been run through a hydraulic press it's just like smash disintegrated the officer radios in for backup radio there's a car split into radio there's an occupant inside so he notices the driver first because naturally that's the first place you look for an occupant send us some squad now we got to bust the window out send us some more units this is not a fresh accident either she's been here for a while he sees initially just one person in the car then he radios again we got at least two occupants in here no one's moving oh my god oh my god times three radio three occupants no one's conscious no one's breathing and they start freaking out they're like trying to bust the window there's banging he's banging he's like screaming who can hear my voice radio we're gonna need full extraction all three and he's um saying like holy shit this is bad guys they're all pretty young now upon first glance the front passenger side where dom was sitting has a lot of the impact um there's a video of the car and this is the video is taken after the car is taken to a separate lot and the front of the car i was almost confused like am i being shown the wrong car like are they going to move to show me the black toyota because the front of the car looks white because it's not like it's a half paint job it's the front of the car had been disintegrated where all you can see is metal that's it the officer doesn't have anything hard to smash open the windows like multiple units arrive and they're just like trying they're even thinking like do we use our gun like we need to get in here they can't get the window open eventually they jam it open and once they get into the car they can quickly tell that two of them are not going to make it i know that there is um speculations theories online that davion was alive at the time of the unit's arrival it seems like that is not accurate by all accounts um dom and davion were confirmed doa dead on arrival by the officers first responding officer later says in a less panicked and more somber tone like we got two that are gone jesus christ like this is probably the worst i've ever seen he's trying to explain to the new officers that are showing up like it's like a nightmare i ran up i go this is bad i ran up i saw one i called her in i looked in the back there's two i call it in and then you see three and you're like jesus and no one's fucking moving at some point the officers find an id and realize that the individual in the back seat is davion and i don't know how this officer knows um maybe he has a kid the same age or maybe he's just very involved in high school sports but he says he's a fucking strongsville football player and so they mention that he's a running back and the officer walks to the back seat of the car and taps on the metal and says rest in peace buddy the first responders the they arrive and they inform the other officers at the scene contacted the coroner they're on their way out and just to add to the chaos you know there's wind and debris being thrown about because a life flight has landed to take the only person that has a pulse into this flying er to the hospital now the day after the crash police are knocking on the door to the hospital room with the only survivor and that is mackenzie shavilla she has three broken ribs a lacerated liver kidney damaged arteries a broken femur above the knee her legs and arms are in casts she has neck brace on she does objectively look messed up but she's alive she's the only one from the car that is alive and by this point her parents have told her they say that they told her that her boyfriend dom and davion had been kilt. Mackenzie's parents say that after getting out of surgery in the middle of the night Mackenzie asked where's Dom. They didn't really think that there was a way to calm her down so they tell her and she's just screaming it's not him it's not him. Then she asked about Davian and they say that she learns that he didn't make it and she was just sobbing oh god oh god. But the officers aren't really interested in any of that. They want to know what the hell happened in that car because it doesn't make any sense. They were able to pull CCTV camera footage from a nearby warehouse that shows the black Toyota that Mackenzie is driving. There's sound to the CCTV and it sounds like a missile and you hear the crash. I will say that there are TikToks going around that they enhance the audio and you can hear one of the boys screaming Mackenzie no. That does not appear to be true at all. It would have been in the police reports. It would have been talked about during the trial but you can hear the car and it's going fast and you hear it crash. It sounds it sounds bad. There is no feasible reason that the officers can think of of what would cause Mackenzie to drive in this manner. Like this is not a road that is easy to speed on. It's an industrial road with a speed limit of 35 miles per hour. Not saying that you can't speed over the speed limit but it's like a pretty bumpy road. So one of the officers actually got into his cruiser and he went around 55 in his cruiser and he said like the wheel was shaking because like I said the road the concrete is kind of messed up. It's an industrial road. So he's like to be able to speed over it because it's not like they were going all over the place. It's like a straight shot missile. It's not like she's you know driving and swerving and hitting things and hitting the curb and then slamming into the building. It's like it almost looks like you'd have to be pretty in control of the vehicle which also they think that means if someone blacked out or passed out or were so drunk this is not a road that you can maneuver before straight shotting it into the building. They're like if she was drunk on progress she would have hit something else first. Oh because it's like a there's like this gentle driving. Yes what they're saying they're like and and they pull another version of CCTV camera. So remember Pearl is the main road of Strongsville progress you turn right so you're on Pearl then you make a right onto progress. They pull CCTV camera from that road and Mackenzie when she does that right turn her blinkers on she slows down and she has a controlled right turn and then within the span of like half a mile suddenly she loses control loses control of the car and then speed shots it almost a hundred miles per hour straight into the building. So like none nothing makes sense. I think initially when the police got there they're thinking okay young kids we found shrooms on Mackenzie. They found a quartz Ziploc bag of shrooms on Mackenzie's person along with a digital scale. So they're thinking maybe this is impaired driving but when they get all the CCTV camera they're like that doesn't make sense. How are you driving? Completely normally and completely safe and then all of a sudden you cannot drive. With the argument essentially being okay so if Mackenzie is impaired she's somehow managing to drive with the skill of like an F1 driver straight into a building. So the police believe that rules out the fact that she could be impaired though they do do a toxicology report or test just to make sure and more on that in a second but later Mackenzie and her parents as well as her defense attorney will argue that Mackenzie was impaired. Just not by drugs. Not by anything that's going to show up in the toxicology. They argue that Mackenzie was diagnosed with POTS which can cause someone to faint. I will note that not everyone diagnosed with POTS faints. It's actually like this is a very misrepresented diagnosis. In fact that's a point of frustration with a lot of people who are diagnosed with POTS is that everyone assumes that they pass out when it's not even part of the diagnostic criteria. Diagnostic criteria typically rests entirely on heart rate response not fainting. Fainting however is a possible symptom but not everyone with POTS faints. In fact it's considered kind of like a rare event. It's been described as a disorder where it just feels like you're going to faint and you might faint. It is you know life-altering but it's not like oh everyone with POTS is fainting all the time and like they shouldn't be behind the wheel. Like it's not this like oh my gosh so scary you're gonna die and like everyone you can't be behind a car the hallmark for POTS is more so a heart rate increase of at least 30 beats per minute in adults within the first 10 minutes of standing up or a head up tilt. It's very much based on standing up. That's like a huge thing with POTS. It's okay so a lot of it is centered around when someone without POTS, I guess like if you and I were not diagnosed with POTS, we stand up. Gravity pulls 10 to 15 percent of blood into the stomach and the legs. The body will compensate by tightening the blood vessels. And modestly adjusting the heart rate. For people with POTS, the blood vessels will not tighten. So blood you know pools below the heart and in an attempt to overcorrect because the body doesn't really like they're like whoa what's going on. Then the body will flood their system with norepinephrine and epinephrine. So the heart is just getting epinephrine and norepinephrine and doesn't really know why. So naturally it causes the heart rate to shoot up abnormally. So you have a lot of people with POTS that are like oh my god I need to go to the doctor. I need to go to the doctor. POTS is a life-altering diagnosis and I'm not trying to say like oh this is not serious but it's not considered life-threatening. There are no deaths attributed directly to POTS. I think that's a huge thing that people in the POTS community feel like the stigma is a lot especially with driving. And I was actually on the POTS subreddit and they really hate really hate Mackenzie it seems. Because a lot of them most of them have been diagnosed with POTS for decades. A lot of them say they've never fainted. And they actually it was like very annoying because when people find out they have POTS it's always like how can you dare drive. Like it's there's so many misconceptions about POTS and it's just not they feel it's not true. So that's not to say that people with POTS don't faint. They absolutely can and do and it can be life-altering when they faint because typically the biggest practical danger of POTS is injury from fainting. So like you faint you fall and you it does appear that the general public does just think it's a fainting disease which doesn't seem to be the case at all. But it's also a condition where you could have been diagnosed gone years without fainting and then you suddenly faint. It is entirely possible. Does that mean that that's what happened in this case? Most people don't think so for a lot of reasons that we're going to dive deeper in a separate episode but I'm just going to give you a little bit right now. So interestingly enough a lot of people with POTS thinks that this whole thing is ridiculous. Okay even the way that Mackenzie's mom talks about POTS in court later during Mackenzie's trial she calls POTS a blood pressure condition which inherently is not true. So when your blood pressure drops that's when people faint. Fainting can be a symptom for some people with POTS but the condition itself is not a blood pressure condition. It's like more a heart rate condition. So it's just like people are like how can you say that your daughter is diagnosed with POTS and that's what caused this fatal crash but you sound so uneducated about POTS. Like if this was truly a condition that was life-altering enough for Mackenzie to get diagnosed with it and then later according to them get into a fatal car accident killing two people in the car because of POTS you would think her mother would know a bit about POTS but she calls it a blood pressure condition in court which is inherently not true. Blood pressure again plays a role but it's not a blood pressure condition. If you go on the POTS subreddit you'll actually see a lot of people who argue that had this been a POTS related episode it's more likely that her body would go limp. Rather than floor the pedal all the way straight into the wall. So they're saying like when you faint it's more likely with POTS that your body goes limp. I see. One person literally comments she's so fucking stupid if this were a POTS episode the exact opposite would happen. There are also speculations that her diagnosis could have come from the fact that she was engaged in super heavy drug use and she does appear to be low on the BMI scale. So feeling lightheaded upon standing is not always POTS. It could be because you're malnourished or your BMI is too low. It could be heavy drug usage. It could be like low iron. It could be lots of things but again like with POTS diagnosis that's why a lot of people again are in the community upset. There's a lot of specific criteria. Usually the gold standard is a tilt test. They like strap you to this board and they put you in a direction which would simulate standing up and they keep you there for like 10 minutes while they're watching your heart rate and all of these things. But she gets diagnosed in 2017 because she apparently like fainted in the kitchen. Her mom takes her to the Cleveland Clinic and she's prescribed salt tabs and is diagnosed with POTS. And then it just seems like nothing ever happens. Like they don't get follow-ups. They don't do further diagnostic testing at least that it's not revealed in court. I don't have her medical records but I would assume that the defense would have used it. In fact I also think it's weird that the defense if they really were trying to argue this whole POTS thing why don't you just strap her up to the tilt test board? Why don't you like definitively prove? Because Natalie Shirela didn't even know the diagnosing physician. She's like I don't even know what doctor it was. Like there was no upkeep in this POTS diagnosis. There was nothing. And then also it's the fact that people were saying okay so she fainted once in the kitchen and this is not to comment on people's weights but she does seem probably very low on the BMI scale to the point where some doctors may be alarmed, that could cause lightheadedness, that could cause fainting. is engaging in heavy drug use it could be a wide variety of reasons and her mom gets her diagnosed with POTS right so it's just like and if that were all true if this is the case Mackenzie faints in the kitchen her mom gets her diagnosed with POTS and her mom still let her have a car while smoking weed with POTS is I mean that would be a huge problem because not because people with POTS cannot drive because they absolutely can and just as safely as any other law-abiding citizen without POTS but Mackenzie is 17 her mom says she's fainting in the kitchen her parents know she partakes in an ungodly amount of smoking weed and she's trying to like make the plant go extinct like that's how much she's trying to smoke weed and she likes to drive while high on weed I would imagine like that's a huge problem if you're letting your daughter do that and another thing is if the gibberish speak the carny speak in the hospital room is to be believed the fact that she was speaking and what her dad you know describes to be carny allegedly saying can we just tell them that I had a seizure seizures and POTS are not even the same thing like these are entirely different things seizures and fainting due to POTS are not the same we can't just fucking make pasta and see what sticks to the wall a lot of comments on the POTS subreddit are along the lines of like genuinely made me so mad I feel like her claims are just adding to the misconceptions about POTS how in the world would a POTS episode make you push harder on the gas such absolutely bullshit and I'm glad she's in jail another one reads amazing how fainting and losing consciousness can perfectly keep the car steered and accelerated for sure another says my jaw hit the floor when she said it was a medical event due to POTS only people with POTS would know that's not how it works people have also noted that during the trial during high stress situations with likely dehydration and other things playing into the mix she never asked for a break because she felt like she was fainting which is reasonable and expected for someone with POTS so because like your heart rate goes up when you're stressed and high cortisol and you know she's sitting in the courtroom on trial she's probably not drinking a ton of water dehydration and she never asked like the judge for a moment because she's feels like faint and light-headed you know there's lots of moments where she's standing sitting judge walks in she stands like there's not like suddenly nothing matters you only had POTS in that like two minutes in the car they also argue that medical records after she's life flighted don't match someone with POTS that after being pulled out of the car she's not being pulled out of that car with all the other factors her blood pressure was qualitatively described as elevated when she's pulled from the crash now I will say they are pulled from the crash way later from the actual accident but some people have argued like POTS would cause if you fainted it would be low blood pressure not high blood pressure but she had elevated blood pressure she also had a normal heart rate and ECG showing normal electrical heart function which probably wouldn't happen they think in a POTS episode within like even an hour like POTS episode all of that physical trauma and then your heart rate is normal like they just don't think that makes sense and also when they extract her from the car it's like a posterior condition so she's being moved so that would mean if she does have POTS her heart rate should go up because she's going from sitting to probably at least some form of like her she's moving now it's interesting to note that her defense did not bring an expert to testify about Mackenzie's POTS and how she could have fainted while operating the vehicle some people believe it was a genuine accident and people who believe it was not have mixed reasonings as to why the defense did not bring in an expert during the trial we're going to get into it in a second I feel like I'm getting ahead of myself but we're going to cover it thoroughly later so the first theory that police had was that Mackenzie was high and impaired while driving but it just doesn't make sense with all the CCTV footage they're getting very early on Mackenzie's mom is saying things like oh she has POTS she has POTS like in the hospital so she's like oh maybe it was the POTS right and then she's like oh she's like oh she's like oh she's like oh she's like oh and the police are like well that doesn't seem to be the case either like we don't really think that's what happened either so the police get the black box data from the vehicle and according to the reports it reads the Toyota averaged approximately 80.51 miles per hour in the final second leading up to the collision as it traveled off the roadway so it struck the commercial sign and then the eastern side of the building the black box shows that five seconds before hitting before impact the Toyota was a hundred percent acceleration meaning the gas pedal was pressed all the way down you could not press on the gas further fully depressed you cannot press down further like this is very pertinent and at no point in the five seconds was the brake pedal ever pressed this is the single most consequential data point in this case I will say there is a change in the engine throttle before impact that is argued that the car was airborne so when it hit the curb it I'm not saying it like flew but it was off the ground and that will naturally impact the throttle engine readings but the brake was never pressed within the final seconds there is a small right turn of the steering wheel then a small left turn and then a significant right turn of 142 degrees of the steering wheel one second before the crash the shift the gear shift is moved to neutral and then moved back to drive now this is done manually this does not slip on its own there's nothing in the black box that would show that the car would initiate or engage some sort of protection mode or safety feature where it would go to neutral then back to drive so like something something is happening with the gear shift physically manually in the car the car was also found to not have any malfunctions or mechanical errors that could have caused this now I say this with a lot of cases if anyone truly believes that a in a case a car malfunction is the cause of death or deaths I think a wrongful death suit demanding tens of millions of dollars will be knocking on the car manufacturer's door like that is my opinion obviously but I think that is a strong thing so the black box data shows there's no malfunctioning of the vehicle I will note there have been conversations online about whether or not Toyota had acceleration issues in the past so some people are like oh yeah Toyota had this thing where it would just freaking accelerate even if when you didn't want it to which makes it sound like Toyota's would just go a hundred miles per hour out of the blue leaving the driver and occupants trapped in a Normal investigations were held into Toyota's, what they called the acceleration problem. The Department of Transportation, so there were multiple calls coming in saying like, oh, the Toyota won't break. Like, I don't know what to do. I'm not stepping on, I'm stepping on the brake, but it's accelerating. Like, help me, help me. Like, people are freaking out. The Department of Transportation actually found that the acceleration from Toyotas, the unintentional accelerations from Toyotas, was mainly from floor mats getting stuck onto the gas pedal. And more often than not, drivers who inadvertently pressed the gas pedal thinking they were pressing the brakes and then panicking, but it's, a lot of it was user error. Toyota did a massive recall because they thought the financial loss was better than fighting public opinion. There's a whole revisionist history episode on it that I would probably recommend. NASA engineers also helped investigate, and the fightings were, NASA found no evidence that a malfunction in electronics caused large unintended accelerations. But this entire piece of Toyota history does not go. Without its own complications, lots of people have their own opinions about what happened in the past. There were fatalities connected to what has been dubbed like the unintended acceleration crisis, but there are also conspiracies. A lot of people believe that this was propaganda by American car manufacturers to sow fear in foreign-made cars. Others believe that Toyota paid the fine, so they must have known something was messed up with the cars. I do think there was some allegation of sticky gas pedals, but it's just, I'm just giving you a summary of the mixed feelings that people have. I will note that while diving into these conversations though, even on Reddit, Toyota has at least anecdotally ranked as a very well-trusted car brand. And the argument goes on and on about, is this real history? Because everyone, it seems like most people, they were like, oh, no, Toyota did something bad. And then everyone in the comments is like, actually, you're wrong. So this is actually what happened. And then the findings are here, but then some people are saying, well, there's this 200 page court document where Toyota paid a fine. And it's not a rabbit hole that I felt was pertinent enough to go down, but it's just, there's no way that that's what happened in McKenzie's car, especially because, and the only reason I'm bringing this up is because her vehicle most likely had a brake override system, which is BOS. Toyota started installing these preemptively after 2009 because of this whole like unintended acceleration crisis. So essentially, if you feel like you're in a car accident, you're in a car accident, your car is accelerating unintendedly. Let's say your gas pedal is stuck. If you hit the brakes, it'll neutral out the acceleration. It'll engage a safety feature. Yeah. So you'll just be idle because you're hitting both technically. Right. Oh, okay. Okay. But I mean, that's, that was never engaged because McKenzie never hit the brake, but people are saying like, if this was one of those unintended accelerations, right, she would have hit the brake and there's a safety feature that would have been triggered. It's pertinent to the case because there is a picture of a fuzzy Prada slipper found stuck under the acceleration pedal in the crash Toyota. A lot of people wonder, is this another unintended acceleration issue? Again, no, because the brakes were never hit. Toyota's have that safety feature that's been put in and the prosecutor says we got back the lab results and the, in his professional opinion, the experts stated the slipper was stuck to the floorboard because of the impact. Like when the car was crushed. The floorboard had actually crumbled around the slipper, so it had no contribution to the crash it was simply a result of the crash but let's say you don't trust the prosecutor or his opinions still the bos system prada slipper gets stuck if she hits the brakes the bos system would have been engaged and it would have stopped the car so if it's not impaired driving if it's not pots if it's not a car malfunction if it's not an acceleration pedal that's stuck what is it and why did the car go to neutral then go to drive why was the steering wheel yanked to the right the prosecutor says it was chilling if anybody was awake and alert inside that car what a horrific last few seconds they endured it is hard to comprehend that someone could just drive into a wall at that kind of speed it is widely believed that dom and davion were trying to save their lives in the last few moments and perhaps there was one of the boys had tried to put the car in neutral to slow it down it gets put back into drive maybe they're trying to take over the steering wheel another thing to note is the two boys were not found with their seat belts on and lots of people have reported that they always wear seat belts so they think they took it off to try and stop the car and interestingly enough mackenzie who i've watched so many of her videos of her driving under the influence she almost never wears a seat belt but the day of the crash she's wearing a seat belt she's the only one out of the three yeah so with that being said that is part one of the mackenzie shirilla case stay tuned for the next few parts because we think that we've this is just the surface let me know in the comments what are your thoughts and i'll see you in the next one bye