EL CAJON – A 19-year-old Vista woman told a judge Wednesday how a carefree summer day turned deadly when an accused drunken driver slammed into her boyfriend's car in Ramona, killing him.

“All of a sudden, I see this white flash and hear this screeching noise, and the next thing I know, I wake up, it's completely black, everything's gone wrong; there's a car on top of me,” Tessa Medearis testified in El Cajon Superior Court.

Shannon Shimp, 35, of El Cajon, is charged with two counts of murder and two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter in the July 22 accident.

Medearis' boyfriend, Ian Kinney, was killed, as was a passenger in Shimp's truck, Joseph Edwards, 52.

Shimp, who had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 nearly two hours after the crash, also is charged with drunken driving causing injury.

Superior Court Judge Louis R. Hanoian ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold Shimp for trial and set a Dec. 3 hearing to determine a date.

Witnesses testified that Shimp was driving a white flatbed truck east on state Route 78 near Ramona about 6 p.m. when he crossed into the westbound lane to pass three vehicles, lost control of the truck and skidded sideways into a westbound Lexus driven by Kinney. The Lexus was pinned under Shimp's truck, witnesses testified.

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