Florida Vice Mayor Found Dead In Her Home, Husband Charged With Murder

A Florida vice politician seen arsenic a rising governmental prima was recovered dormant astatine her location Wednesday and her hubby was arrested connected suspicion of premeditated murder, authorities said.

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen's assemblage was recovered by constabulary who were conducting a wellness check, according to a connection from nan city. The Coral Springs Police Department, located successful Broward County, has initiated an investigation.

Metayer Bowen's husband, Stephen Bowen, was arrested pursuing a preliminary investigation, nan metropolis said, adding that “it was wished nan incident was home successful nature” and location were nary further suspects astatine this time.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office website listed Bowen, 40, arsenic successful custody and booked nether nan charges of premeditated execution and tampering aliases fabricating beingness evidence.

Before becoming vice mayor, Metayer Bowen was nan first Black and Haitian American female commissioner of Coral Springs. She was first elected successful 2020 and past re-elected successful 2024, according to nan metropolis website. In 2025, she was appointed to service a 2nd word arsenic nan vice politician for nan metropolis of Coral Springs by her chap commissioners, according to nan metropolis website.

Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.Coral Springs City Commission

Metayer Bowen was besides an biology intelligence and, earlier her domiciled connected nan Coral Springs City Commission, she “led biology justness efforts crossed nan authorities of Florida, focusing connected enhancing organization resilience,” according to nan metropolis website.

The metropolis said that during her clip arsenic a personnel of nan Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, her activity had been “instrumental successful addressing h2o crises and responding to awesome earthy disasters, including Hurricanes Irma, Michael, and Dorian.”

Metayer Bowen’s family released a connection saying she was “a cherished personnel of our family, but besides a dedicated nationalist servant who committed her life to improving nan lives of others.”

“Throughout her years successful nationalist office, she led pinch integrity, compassion, and an unwavering consciousness of purpose. She believed successful bringing group together, listening to those she served, and moving tirelessly to create affirmative alteration successful her community,” nan Metayer family wrote. “To us, she was a root of strength, wisdom, and love—someone who ever put others earlier herself.”

“Her bequest will unrecorded connected not only successful nan policies she helped shape, but successful nan countless lives she touched,” nan family said.

Lawmakers astir nan authorities expressed condolences and daze astatine nan decease of nan “beloved” vice mayor, while praising her leadership.

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said successful a Wednesday connection that “it is pinch a surgery bosom and profound condolences that nan Florida Democratic Party mourns nan abrupt and horrific decease of our beloved Vice Chair, Nancy Metayer Bowen.”

“Just days ago, I said pinch Nancy. Just 2 weeks ago, I held her successful a hug astatine our Party’s Leadership Summit, ne'er imagining it would beryllium 1 of our past moments together,” she said successful nan statement.

“Nancy was not simply our Vice Chair of Haitian Outreach. She was a scientist. An environmentalist. A superb barrier-breaker who made history arsenic nan first Black and Haitian-American female elected to nan Coral Springs City Commission,” Fried said. “A Vice Mayor who showed up each azygous time for nan group she served. She loved her organization profoundly and believed, pinch each fibre of her being, that a amended and much equitable early was imaginable for each of us.”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., said connected societal media that he was “in shock” aft learning astir Metayer Bowen’s death.

“I was conscionable pinch her connected Saturday. She conscionable buried her brother. She was astir to denote she was moving for Congress,” he wrote. “Nancy was 1 of nan nicest group I worked with. Always fighting for her community, ever pushing to help. She had specified a future. This is terrible.”

Broward County Mayor Mark Bogen said successful a connection that Metayer Bowen “served her organization pinch dedication and heart, and nan effect of her dedicated nationalist work will beryllium felt crossed Broward County.”

“Our thoughts are pinch her family, colleagues, and nan Coral Springs organization during this difficult time,” he said.