SPARTA, Wis. – A Sparta woman died at a LaCrosse hospital eight days after serious injuries from an incident that police say was a domestic beating. The victim was 35-year-old Ticarra Manning. Doctors attributed death to intracerebral hemorrhaging. The brain swelling, they said, was inoperable. She had two sons, ages 13 and 8. Her death prompted he Monroe County district attorney in Sparta to upgrade charges against Andrew Nauman, who had been arrested October 8 at the scene. The revised charges: First-degree intentional homicide, felony murder, aggravated battery, and felony bail jumping. Nauman, age 39, has been in the Monroe County jail since the arrest, already on $1 million bail regading a previous case.
