Florida vice mayor found dead in home after 'domestic violence incident,' husband was in police custody

A South Florida metropolis person was recovered dormant successful her location Wednesday and her hubby was successful constabulary custody, authorities said. 

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was recovered by constabulary officers astatine astir 10 a.m. Wednesday aft opening an probe into her "well-being," constabulary Chief Brad Mock, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. 

Mock didn't supply immoderate details astir the circumstances of Bowen's death, saying it was being investigated arsenic a "domestic unit incident." Bowen’s husband, Stephen Bowen, was successful constabulary custody, Mock said.

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Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, center, was recovered dea din her location Wednesday, authorities said.  (Getty Images)

The main said determination were nary different suspects being sought. 

Bowen was archetypal elected to the Coral Springs City Commission successful 2020 and re-elected successful 2024. She was appointed by the committee past November to service a second, one-year word arsenic Vice Mayor, according to her bio connected the city’s website. 

Before being elected to the commission, Bowen worked arsenic an biology idiosyncratic who formerly served connected the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, the South Florida Sun Sentinel paper reported. 

Bowen's household confirmed her decease connected her societal media accounts. 

"Throughout her years successful nationalist office, she led with integrity, compassion, and an unwavering consciousness of purpose," the family’s connection said. "She believed successful bringing radical together, listening to those she served, and moving tirelessly to make affirmative alteration successful her community. To us, she was a root of strength, wisdom, and emotion — idiosyncratic who ever enactment others earlier herself."

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Nancy Metayer Bowen (left), then-director of the Florida Caribbean Vote and Sandy Dorsainvil, Director Route 1804, gets acceptable earlier the departure of a caravan led by Haitian organizers to amusement enactment for the Kamala Harris run successful Aug. 10, 2024. (Getty Images)

"While galore knew her arsenic a person and advocate, we knew her arsenic a sister, a daughter, and a person whose warmth and laughter filled each room. Her bequest volition unrecorded connected not lone successful the policies she helped shape, but successful the countless lives she touched."

The Coral Springs authorities Facebook leafage paid tribute to Bowen, calling her "leadership grounded successful compassion, strength, and an unwavering committedness to others."

"Her interaction connected Coral Springs is immeasurable, and her nonaccomplishment leaves a void successful our hearts. We inquire our assemblage to support her family, loved ones, and each who are grieving successful your thoughts and prayers. In this hard time, we basal unneurotic arsenic 1 city. We volition transportation her light, adjacent successful this darkness."

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., said helium was saddened to perceive of Bowen's death, remembering her arsenic a "tireless advocate, a dedicated progressive leader, and a almighty dependable for her community."

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen seated astatine a caller City Commission meeting. 

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Florida Democratic Party Chair, Nikki Fried, said she spoke with Bowen a fewer days 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," Fried said successful a statement. "Nancy was my person and a person to everyone who has ever believed that ideology was worthy warring for. The satellite is little agleam without her successful it."