BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – A Springfield man who was shot and wounded by a Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department deputy in February has now been formally charged with the armed robbery and assault of the clerk at the Citgo Station in Battle Creek in January 2016.
It was that crime and the description of Derrick Shirk’s pick-up truck that resulted in a high speed chase that ended at Shirk’s home in Springfield. When Shirk allegedly produced an Airsoft pistol and pointed it at the Deputy, the officer


