Overview
- Officers conducting a welfare check found Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, 38, dead at her Coral Springs home around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
- Police said the killing is a domestic violence case and reported no additional suspects or threat to the public.
- Stephen Bowen, 40, was arrested in Plantation after license‑plate readers flagged his car, and he is charged with premeditated murder and evidence tampering.
- A judge denied bond Thursday, and jail records show he remains in Broward County custody.
- An affidavit detailed scene evidence including used shotgun shells, a wound to her left shoulder, her body wrapped in blankets, and a pillow with burn marks that looked like a makeshift silencer.