Man admits to killing three in drunk driving crash amid Palm Springs dust storm

INDIO, Calif. (KUNA) – A 54-year-old drunken driver who caused a multi-vehicle crash that left three people dead in Palm Springs will be sentenced to state prison next month. Shawn Michael Kirkpatrick admitted Tuesday to three counts of gross vehicular homicide by drunken driving, as well as one count of drunken driving resulting in serious bodily injury and a sentence enhancement charge for causing injury or death to multiple victims in a crash…