How did the crash investigation lead to Mackenzie Shirilla being charged with murder?
Doing crash reconstruction, Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Elliot Rawson said he calculated that the car was averaging 97.8 miles per hour as it approached the intersection where it hit the building.
Then, Troup said, toxicology tests found THC, the active chemical in marijuana, in Mackenzie’s blood, but no traces of alcohol or psilocybin.
A forensic auto investigator found that “the braking, the steering, the tires, the acceleration were working properly,” Troup said, so the car “didn’t malfunction.”
Ohio State Highway Patrol Sgt. Ryan Fox said in the doc that the Camry’s electronic data recorder showed that the accelerator pedal was “completely pressed all the way down” in the five seconds before the crash.
“Most people would want to slow the vehicle or stop the vehicle to avoid that type of an impact,” Fox said. “In this case, there was no braking.”
The data showed that three seconds before impact, he continued, the steering wheel went right, then left, then hard right, and the car shifted from drive to neutral, then back into drive.
“I think the boys were trying to save their life,” Troup said. “I think Dom and Davion were yanking on the wheel, grabbing at the gearshift, and it was just too late.”