Bond was set at $150,000 Monday for a Vicksburg man charged with murder in the baseball-bat beating death of another city man.

Judge Louis Burke took less than 5 minutes to set bond for Benjamin Brooks, 30, 469 Union Ave., who remained in the Warren County Jail this morning.

Brooks is accused of assaulting 25-year-old Derral Holmes at T&S Tunnel Express, a car wash on Pemberton Square Boulevard. Holmes died Sunday at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

With several of Holmes’ relatives at Monday’s arraignment, Brooks stood quietly before Burke as the judge quickly read the initial charge against him and set bond &#8220because of the nature of this crime” on the murder charge.

Holmes’ mother said after the court hearing that Burke should not have set bond for Brooks.

&#8220I did not agree with it,” Corine Holmes said. &#8220Personally, I wanted no bond. I thought it was a very brutal and heinous crime, and it happened in broad daylight.”

She said she does not know why her son, who is survived by three children, was killed.

&#8220I have no idea,” she said. &#8220My son used to work there, and maybe he thought he was among friends. I’m really not sure because I wasn’t there.”

Authorities have declined to provide a motive in the killing. They accuse Brooks, an employee of T&S Tunnel Express, of striking the victim in the head with an aluminum baseball bat at 10:56 a.m. Wednesday as he talked with someone else at the car wash on Pemberton Square Boulevard.

Corine Holmes said her son, who worked at Horizon Casino, enjoyed life.

&#8220Derral was a good person,” she said. &#8220He loved music and his favorite thing was his car. He would come by and see me every night because he was very concerned about me and whether I was happy.”

Funeral arrangements were incomplete Monday, Corine Holmes said.

Derral Holmes’ death was the city’s sixth homicide this year. Previously, the latest homicide in the city had been Oct. 14. William Presley Brown, 32, 801 Clay St., was charged with capital murder after police found the nude body of 43-year-old Chenara Young, 1303 Wood St., Oct. 15 behind a trash bin outside The Vicksburg Apartments.

Charges are pending against suspects in three other homicides.

No arrest has been made in the shooting death of David W. &#8220Jones” Anderson, who was killed July 28 while leaving the Elks Lodge, 2916 Walnut St.