Overview
- Jail records show Stephen Bowen, 40, was arrested Wednesday and booked on charges of premeditated murder and evidence tampering.
- Police are investigating the killing as a domestic violence case and say they are not seeking other suspects, according to Chief Brad Mock.
- Officers found Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, 38, dead during a welfare check at her Coral Springs home around 10 a.m., police said.
- Metayer Bowen was the city’s first Black and Haitian-American woman commissioner and a Florida Democratic Party vice chair, and colleagues said she had been preparing a congressional run.
- Her family and community mourned in public statements as the investigation continues and officials have not released details about the exact manner of death.