Bond has been denied for two suspects charged with the brutal beating and robbery of a Warren County man as he worked in Jackson Jan. 29.

Jontez Garvis, 29, and David Thomas, 25, both residents of Jackson, continue to be held in the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond, said Jackson Police Department spokesman Colendula Green. Garvis was arrested Friday, Thomas on Sunday, Green said, both charged with aggravated assault and armed robbery.

The victim, Fred Jackson, 62, 627 Wright Road, Yokena, suffered severe head and facial injuries in the attack, said his daughter, Sheila Hedrick, who lives next door to her father.

Jackson has not regained consciousness since the attack at Tri-Miss Services, a salvage yard at 416 Woodrow Wilson Drive, while he was kneeling down welding a back gate at the yard. A videotape shows two men in hooded jackets approach and beat him repeatedly before leaving. Missing were $500, a paycheck and Jackson’s cell phone, Jackson police have said.

Since, he has been in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at University Medical Center in Jackson.

Hedrick said Wednesday that her father has shown some signs of improvement but is still unresponsive and has developed pneumonia.

“He’s not out of the woods yet but the doctors say that time is our best friend,” Hedrick said.

An account has been set up at Regions Bank to receive donations to help with Jackson’s medical expenses, said Linda Harris, corporate communications officer with the bank. Donations, made out to Susan Gould or Sheila Hedrick for Fred Jackson, account number 0167152287, can be made at any Regions Bank, Harris said.

Garvis and Thomas appeared in Jackson Municipal Court, where bond was denied, Green said. No further details about the hearings or their arrests were available, she said.