--- title: Daily Update - April 13, 2026 description: Daily Update - April 13, 2026Habitual Criminal Strikes AgainWatch on YouTubeListen Summary Transcript About Reuel Sample This Wilmington Standard Daily Update f... canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-april-13-2026 language: en-GB date: 2026-04-13T14:56:23Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-april-13-2026. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1444 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-april-13-2026. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![Davy Spencer](https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/images/daily_update/2026/april/apr13/DailyUpdateApril32026-article.png) For thirty years, the system kept releasing the same man. Now a Marine is gone after a 2 a.m. stabbing downtown. This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday April 13, 2026. [Davy Spencer](https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/crime/2026/04/11/wilmington-nc-man-charged-in-marines-stabbing-death/89566111007/) has been arrested and charged in the stabbing of Marine Corps Lance Corporal Daniel Montano. The incident took place in downtown Wilmington around 2am on Easter Sunday. [Mr. Spencer](https://www.whqr.org/local/2026-04-11/wilmington-police-department-makes-arrest-in-fatal-downtown-stabbing) is facing several charges, including Second Degree Murder and two counts of Assault with a Deadly Weapon with the intent to Kill. Mr. Spencer of course is innocent of these charges until proven guilty. However, the accused in this case is far from innocent in terms of his overall run ins with the law. [Court records](https://webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0510261&searchLastName=spencer&searchFirstName=davy&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1) indicate that Mr. Spencer has a 30 year relationship with law enforcement, going in and of prison for everything from drug trafficking to possession to resisting arrest to assault on a female. His last conviction was as a habitual felon for distributing heroin and cocaine – which is supposed to increase jail time – and was sentenced to 117 months in jail – around 10 years. He was released after only [serving a nickle and a half.](https://www.whqr.org/local/2026-04-11/wilmington-police-department-makes-arrest-in-fatal-downtown-stabbing) Clearly, something is not working. Americans tend to go out their way to give people second, third and more chances to change when they have done something wrong. It is part of our ethos that our past does not necessarily have to determine our present. Yet that forgiveness – and the perception that we can all be better people – all rest on an understanding that we WANT to be better – that we want to be productive members of society. Mr. Spencer’s three decades of criminal activity suggest that he has no intention of changing – and no intention of contributing to our society in any meaningful way. We should have realized that long ago – and imposed sentences that reflect that defiant criminal attitude. Because he has been charged with second-degree murder and not first degree homicide, he has escaped any possibility of a death sentence. He can – however – spend the rest of his life in prison. And he should. For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. 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