Two Plantersville men charged in connection with the beating and stabbing of a 74-year-old man likely will appear in court Monday for an initial hearing.

Dallas County Chief Deputy Randy Pugh said William James Goodman, 20, and Jonathan Samuel Wayne Pitts, 24, were picked up in Gadsden Wednesday, returned to Dallas County, where they were interviewed by investigators, then jailed under no bond in the Dallas County Jail.

The bond of Goodman and Pitts had originally stood at $2.3 million, but was set at no bond Friday at the request of 4th Judicial District Attorney Michael Jackson, Pugh said.

Goodman and Pitts are charged with first-degree burglary, attempted murder, kidnapping and first-degree theft of property.

Pugh said investigators had interviewed the two men and the 17-year-old female who traveled with them to Gadsden. “They all gave statements,” he said.

The three may also face charges stemming out of Gadsden, the chief deputy said.

Investigators believe the two men left their victim, who was not identified, for dead at a lake on Arrowhead Road in Dallas County. The man was beaten and stabbed several times.

One of the men was armed with a knife and the other with a gun, Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said.

Authorities say they believe the two men picked up the teenage girl at the Plantersville home of one of the suspects, and she accompanied them to Gadsden in the 1992 blue Chevrolet C1500 pick-up truck belonging to the victim, who lived in the 10000 block of Dallas County Road 63.

Gadsden police told the Gadsden Times the two wanted men were arrested after the vehicle they were in broke down at a local convenience store near the intersection of Third Street and Meighan Boulevard by Gadsden police officers.

Gadsden Police Capt. Regina May said the police department received a call from a detective from another agency that the vehicle was broken down; police officers responded and took the men and the teenager into custody without incident.