{"id":184932,"date":"2026-03-10T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184932\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:05:06","slug":"community-mourns-as-jacksonville-man-charged-with-wifes-murder-denied-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184932\/","title":{"rendered":"Community mourns as Jacksonville man charged with wife\u2019s murder denied bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Michael Davis Jr. was denied bond Monday morning during his first court appearance following the murder of his wife, Staci Davis, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 48-year-old Davis is charged with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/09\/no-bond-jacksonville-man-charged-with-killing-his-wife\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/03\/09\/no-bond-jacksonville-man-charged-with-killing-his-wife\/\">murder of Staci Davis<\/a>, who was found with gunshot wounds at the Williamsburg Apartments off Gum Branch Road around 10:20 p.m. Saturday. She was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 43-year-old woman was the director of youth and family services at the New River Onslow YMCA and served on the board of directors for One Place, a Jacksonville nonprofit focused on helping children and families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dawn Rochelle, chief executive officer of One Place, spoke about Staci Davis\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAt her core, she was a mom to so many, which is why I think you see the outpour on social media because of all the moms that would call her. She\u2019d say she loved their babies right along with her own,\u201d Rochelle said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville Police Chief Jarad Phelps said the shooting stemmed from a domestic incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFor a domestic issue to escalate to this magnitude is a cause for concern. We work with the victim center all the time to try to educate people and give resources to domestic violence victims,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">District Attorney Ernie Lee argued for no bond, citing Davis\u2019s criminal history, including a 1997 arrest for manslaughter. Davis was denied bond and has his next court date on March 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-stacis-children-after-tragedy?fbclid=IwVERDUAQbCNFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEecgACT9elDVHhkTR9CjqZZkC5BAmsoXwVdT8hNSwSfWf8c_LGanCrbsX-8Uc_aem_XiVVUcA6es7EHVx58qRgdg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-stacis-children-after-tragedy?fbclid=IwVERDUAQbCNFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEecgACT9elDVHhkTR9CjqZZkC5BAmsoXwVdT8hNSwSfWf8c_LGanCrbsX-8Uc_aem_XiVVUcA6es7EHVx58qRgdg\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been set up for Staci Davis\u2019s family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Michael Davis Jr. was denied bond Monday morning during his first court appearance following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16903,5713,3324,116,86981,118,117,86982,86983,86978,1933,4481,1854,86486,86979,24617,86980,4480],"class_list":{"0":"post-184932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-domestic","9":"tag-domestic-violence","10":"tag-husband","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-domestic-violence-homicide","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-michael-davis","16":"tag-michael-davis-jr","17":"tag-michael-davis-jr-jacksonville-murder","18":"tag-murder","19":"tag-nc","20":"tag-north-carolina","21":"tag-staci-davis","22":"tag-staci-davis-jacksonville-shooting","23":"tag-wife","24":"tag-williamsburg-apartments-jacksonville-shooting","25":"tag-witn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}