The Crash That Wasn’t an Accident: Remembering Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan At first, it looked like the kind of wreck that makes even veteran first responders stop cold. A black Toyota Camry had slammed into the brick wall of a manufacturing building in Strongsville, Ohio, with such force that one responding officer said the car looked as if it had been cut in half. Inside were three young people: 20-year-old Dominic Russo, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan, and 17-year-old M

Alexis Sharkey’s death was one of those cases that instantly lit up every corner of the internet—because it collided at the intersection of influencer culture, a beautiful young victim, and the ugly, familiar pattern of intimate partner homicide. And for months it looked like it might stall, the way cases sometimes do when the truth is inconvenient. But Houston detectives kept working it, built the timeline, established motive and opportunity, and in the end they did what the