Overview
- Police conducting a welfare check Wednesday around 10 a.m. found Nancy Metayer Bowen dead inside her Coral Springs home.
- Investigators located her husband, Stephen Bowen, in Plantation at the Landmark Towers complex after he left the area, using license plate readers to track his vehicle.
- He faces charges of premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and a judge ordered him held without bond.
- Authorities described the case as domestic in nature and said there is no threat to the public while the investigation continues.
- Metayer Bowen, 38, was the first Black and Haitian-American woman on the Coral Springs commission and a Democratic outreach leader, and colleagues plan a Friday evening vigil as tributes note she had been preparing a congressional run.