Overview
- Officers conducting a welfare check Wednesday morning found the 38-year-old city leader shot dead inside her Coral Springs home.
- Her husband, Stephen Bowen, 40, was taken into custody and booked into the Broward County jail as the lone suspect.
- Authorities said there are no other suspects and have not yet detailed formal charges or released forensic findings.
- Metayer Bowen was the first Black and Haitian-American woman on the Coral Springs commission and had served in Florida Democratic and national campaign roles.
- Colleagues said she had been preparing to launch a congressional bid, a reported plan that could shift the local Democratic field.