Common Pleas Court Judge Stacy Wall increased his bail from $100,000 to $600,000. Kerg remains in the county jail. A pretrial hearing was scheduled for Jan. 3.
Davis died Sept. 27.
She had been hospitalized since the attack when Tipp City police said she engaged in a verbal altercation with Kerg at his father’s home. During the altercation, Kerg allegedly grabbed her by the waist and carried her to the front lawn, where he punched her with his bare fists until she was unconscious, police said.
She had remained in a coma since the attack, Wall was told in an earlier court hearing.
Kerg pleaded no contest to felonious assault and was found guilty by Wall in September. However, he was not sentenced on that charge before Davis died.
Before the first plea, Kerg underwent competency and sanity evaluations. He was found competent to stand trial and sane at the time of the assault following the evaluations conducted in August.
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