The Crash

He's a fucking Strongsville football player.

He's a running back.

-What a fucking nightmare. -Go ahead and take a seat.

So, um…

-Do you know what time it happened at? -No, we don't.

Right now, it's so early in the investigation that we don't know.

-They fall asleep at the wheel? -Don't know.

We don't know that. We don't know that. Um, so--

So two kids are dead.

My son's dead, another kid's dead, and the girl's in the hospital?

She's in surgery right now.

Fuck.

Oh my gosh.

He texted me at three o'clock in the morning. "Love you, Dad."

-He texted you at three o'clock? -2:53.

-2:53. -Okay.

We've got a few questions for you.

First thing is, how long have you known Mackenzie?

Probably when I moved to Strongsville, so ninth grade.

So describe the relationship.

She would be, like…

She was like, "Oh, I love Dom so much." This and that.

I remember one instance

we were all about to get on the ride, and Dom was on a phone call.

She was like, "You get on this ride now."

But he said, "I can't right now."

And then we come back, and she kicked Dom away from us.

And she was just like, "I'm about to break up with him."

She was just saying stuff like that.

Have you ever heard Mackenzie threaten Dom?

We were in this candy shop, and, um…

This was after they'd gotten over arguing and everything.

She was like, "Either buy me something or shut the fuck up."

She always threatened and was disrespectful to Dom in my eyes.

Why did Dom put up with this? Do you know?

Um, I've personally been told that she did voodoo on him.

I mean, I personally don't believe that,

but she has told people that she's put a spell on him

so that he couldn't break up with her.

Dom had so much going for himself, like…

Why does he stick with Kenzie? He can do so much better, like.

Okay.

I'm gonna let the prosecutor know that you came down to talk to us.

Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.

Dom tried to break up with her multiple times, even in July.

It kept not working out, whatever. They kept making back up.

Dom would have to call Kenzie's parents, call her mom and stuff,

and say, "You need to come get Kenzie outta here."

"She's refusing to leave my house. She's being crazy."

For me, you know, there's two types of love that you give somebody.

It's like, "I love that person unconditionally."

And there's a type of love that's selfish and restricted

and "I want them all to myself."

And that was Kenzie with Dom.

Kenzie's, like, she's let us know

she will never let go of Dom,

and if she has to let go of Dom, she will not go on living herself.

-Chris, thanks for coming down. -Not a problem.