High Speed Chase Of Shoplifting Suspect Ends With Dramatic Crash

On Nov, 10. Kristin McIntosh was driving to pick up her son at work. Five days later she awoke in Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. She had suffered a traumatic brain injury with bleeding, a concussion, two breaks in her pelvis, 12 broken ribs, two collapsed lungs, a broken sternum, a blood clot, and injuries to one eye. She still can't smile on the left side of her face. "I was told I was in a car accident," she told Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor Amber Straub. McIntosh, 45, was the first witness in the preliminary examination in Calhoun County District Court in the case against Rayjahn Heltzel, 19, of Kalamazoo, charged with seven counts including fleeing from police and shoplifting after allegedly stealing liquor and then fleeing from officers until his van was involved in a multiple-vehicle crash at M-66 and Beckley Road near Lakeview Square Mall on Nov. 10.