This week we're diving into part one of the Mackenzie Shirilla case, and trust us, this one has layers.

It all starts in the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, Ohio. At 5:35 a.m., 17-year-old Mackenzie drove her 2018 Toyota Camry straight into a brick building going over 100 mph. The crash killed her boyfriend, 20-year-old Dominic "Dom" Russo, and his friend, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan, who made the last-minute decision to hop in the car that night.

We get into who these young men were: Dom and his close-knit Italian-American family, and Davion, his adoption, his athletics, and his dream of becoming a barber. From there we start pulling at the threads of Mackenzie and Dom's relationship, and let's just say the deeper we go, the more questions come up.

Investigators had their own theory about what really happened that morning, and the evidence they uncovered is a lot. But we're not getting ahead of ourselves just yet.

Part two is where it all comes together, so stay tuned.

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A note on Davion: his family started the Davion Flanagan Memorial Fund, a 501c3 nonprofit, to help others chase the dream he never got to, attending barber school. Davion shared a dream of eventually owning his own barber shop, and the family felt compelled to make something good happen out of such a senseless tragedy. You can support the scholarship at gofundme.com/f/davion-flanagan, or find the Davion Flanagan Memorial Fund on Facebook. News 5 ClevelandWKYC

This case also touches on domestic violence. If any of it hits close to home, you're not alone. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or you can text START to 88788.

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