Judge Michael Stepka raised the bond for Walmart stabbing attack suspect Bradford Gille from $100,000 to $1 million cash/surety in 86th District Court Wednesday after County Prosecuting Attorney Noelle Moeggenberg filed a motion to have the bond revoked or increased.

Gille, who is facing one terrorism charge and eleven charges of assault with intent to murder after a mass stabbing spree at Walmart Saturday, was arraigned in the case Monday. Magistrate Tammi Rodgers set his bond for $100,000 at the arraignment. The next day, Moeggenberg filed to have the bond increased or revoked, with Stepka taking up her request Wednesday.

Stepka noted that the charges against Gille are not among those that allow the suspect to be held without bond in Michigan. Such charges include murder, treason, committing a violent felony if the defendant is on parole or has been convicted of two or more violent felonies during the previous 15 years, armed robbery, kidnapping, or criminal sexual conduct in the first degree. Moeggenberg argued that Gille's bond should instead be revoked because he violated conditions set by Rodgers to not act in an intimidating or threatening manner to anyone. During his arraignment, Gille was seen making a gesture on camera that some interpreted to be a shooting or gun-like motion, which Moeggenberg said violated the bond conditions.

However, defense attorney Janet Mistele argued there were no bond conditions in place until the "arraignment was completed and that bond was ordered." Gille's gesture therefore couldn't have constituted a violation, she said. Mistele also disputed that the gesture he made was threatening. Reporters who described it as a shooting-like gesture are "unaware" and "uninformed," Mistele said, adding that they have "never met Mr. Gille and they have no idea what he was intending to convey." Mistele said that neither Gille nor his family had the resources to post bond as it was already, calling the amount "impossible." She also said that while the defense recognized there are "many victims here," Gille was one of those victims.

"He's been a victim since he was 15 years of age of the lack of protection and services from our mental health system and the state," she said. Gille has an extensive history of mental illness, criminal activity, and homelessness, with his family expressing frustration publicly over what they've described as a lack of ability to get him proper care.

Despite Gille's family saying they were unwilling and unable to post bond, Moeggenberg worried that someone in the public sympathetic to Gille's cause could come forward and post his bond. While Stepka said he couldn't revoke bond entirely, he agreed to increase the bond to a $1 million cash/surety bond. He also updated the conditions of bond to require a GPS tether if Gille were to bond out and to forbid contact between Gille and any of the victims or family members of victims of the attack. The judge hoped the $1 million bond would “reassure the victims, and the public in general, that it’s unlikely Mr. Gille is going to get out and threaten other people.”

At the request of the defense, Stepka ordered competency and criminal responsibility evaluations of Gille. A preliminary examination scheduled for August 12 before Stepka will now be delayed until those forensics can be completed.

As of Wednesday morning, Munson Medical Center said three of the 11 stabbing victims have been treated and released. Two have been treated and transferred, while five are in good condition. One victim is still in fair condition. Munson representatives said previously that all of the victims are expected to survive.