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From left to right, 21-year-old DeAngelo Terrell Smith, 19-year-old Yasmine Munnerlyn and 20-year-old Carlos Nottingham, were arrested by Chickasaw police and charged with attempted murder and first-degree burglary in the Jan. 27, 2014, beating and stabbing of an 86-year-old man. Police believe the trio was trying to burglarize the man's house when they attacked him. (Courtesy of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office)

CHICKASAW, Alabama -- Charges have been upgraded against three people accused of beating an elderly Chickasaw man in his home on Jan. 27 after the 86-year-old died over the weekend, according to the Mobile County District Attorney's Office.

Carroll Jordan, 86, died on Saturday at the University of South Alabama Medical Center nearly two weeks after he was found by a neighbor following a vicious beating and stabbing. Chickasaw police said the suspects in the case attacked the elder man as part of a home invasion. A television belonging to Jordan was found in his yard after the attack and believed to be left behind by Jordan's fleeing attackers.

His wedding ring was also stolen by his attackers, according to an incident report filed in court. Mobile County District Attorney Ashley Rich told the Press-Register and AL.com that all the suspects got in the attack was a pizza.

Police initially arrested an 18-year-old in the case, although he was released after subsequent arrests showed no evidence that he had been involved in the home invasion, said Lt. Tommy McDuffie of the Chickasaw Police Department.

On Feb. 3, police made their first firm arrest in the case. Deangelo Terrell Smith, 21, was initially charged with first-degree assault and first-degree burglary. By the time two other suspects, 19-year-old Yasmine Raquel Munnerlyn and 20-year-old Carlos Obrien Nottingham, were charged on Feb. 4, the charges against the trio had been upgraded to attempted murder.

They are now facing one count of capital murder in the case, a charge which may carry the death penalty if Smith, Munnerlyn and Nottingham are found guilty by a jury.

According to records from Mobile County Metro Jail, all three suspects in the case have faced jail time before.

In 2013 Smith, of Mobile, was arrested on three separate occasions on charges of third-degree robbery, third-degree assault and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. His robbery case was sent to a grand jury in August 2013. On Feb. 5, prosecutors filed a motion to have his bail revoked in that case in light of his most recent arrest.

Court records show Nottingham, of Wilmer was sentenced to 10 years following a 2010 armed carjacking. He pleaded guilty to an amended charge of second-degree robbery in February 2011. It's unclear why he was released so early, although he started his sentence out with more than 200 days of credited jail time.

In 2013 Munnerlyn was charged with two separate counts of third-degree harassment as part of domestic incidents out of Mobile and Prichard.

The trio is expected to appear before Mobile County District Court Judge George Hardesty for a preliminary hearing on Feb. 27.