SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Charges are pending after a Sevier County Jail inmate died Tuesday following a fist fight sent him to the hospital.

The Sevier County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Gary Dewayne Stiltner II, and the assailant as Shay Vincent Spell. While the investigation into Gary Stiltner's death is ongoing, his sister said he was a non-violent man.

"He was one of the last people that deserved for something like this to happen to,” said Stiltner’s sister, Carrie Doll.

Doll said he was 34 years old, a father of five, and loved by the people who knew him.

“A lot of people loved him. To know him was to love him. He would do anything for anybody,” she said.

She said her brother battled a drug addiction and was in the Sevier County Jail under drug possession charges.

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