Nancy Metayer Brown, Coral Springs vice mayor shot & killed by her Florida husband, Stephen Bowen in domestic violence incident. Social media posts revealed affectionate couple but husband’s posts hinted at discord.
The husband of Coral Springs vice mayor, Nancy Metayer Brown, 38, has been arrested in her slaying after the local politician’s body was found dead at their home during a welfare check.
Officers found the vice mayor in the 800 block of Northwest 127th Avenue at about 10 a.m. Wednesday while conducting an investigation into her ‘well-being,’ the Florida city said in a statement.
Stephen Bowen, 40, who was located at an apartment later that morning was arrested charged with premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Coral Springs vice mayor victim of domestic violence
Florida Politics cited the Coral Springs Police Department who said that the ‘rising Democrat star’ was shot and killed in a suspected domestic violence incident.
During a first-appearance hearing in Broward County Court Thursday morning, a judge ordered Bowen held without bond, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
Bowen, 40, was listed as the chief operating officer of Men of St. Luke Inc., a nonprofit based in Hollywood, Fla. The accused man has an active license as a certified radiologic technologist that was issued in 2014 by the Department of Health.
Telling social media posts: ‘God | Husband | Armed.’
Bowen frequently posted videos of himself at tactical shooting ranges on his personal Instagram. One video pinned to his profile depicts him on a wild boar hunt, smoking a cigar. His bio reads, ‘God | Husband | Armed.’
Several posts on the account also show him and Metayer Bowen celebrating their relationship.
‘Three years of building, dreaming, and loving each other through everything,’ he wrote in his latest post last November for their anniversary, with a photograph of him and Metayer Bowen at their wedding.
Posted Bowen in 2024, ‘Two years with the amazing Stephen Bowen. Cheers to love, growth, and building a beautiful life together. ❤️’
No prior domestic violence filings involving the couple appear in Broward court records, and Bowen did not have any criminal history in Broward besides two misdemeanor drug arrests that prosecutors declined to pursue.
Rising Democratic star
Metayer Bowen, 38, was first elected in 2020, won re-election in 2024 and last November was appointed by the commission to serve a second, one-year term as vice mayor, according to her bio on the city’s website. She was the first Black and Haitian-American woman to hold a seat on the city commission and an environmental scientist who formerly served on the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Metayer Bowen was a graduate of Florida A&M University and earned her master’s degree in health science from Johns Hopkins University.
In 2011, she was an intern in the White House during the Obama administration and an intern for then-U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in his Tallahassee office before becoming the program manager of two nonprofit foundations in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The Coral Springs Police Department Crimes Against Persons Unit asks anyone with information regarding this incident to call Detective Daniel Powers at 954-346-1223 or email dpowers@coralsprings.gov.
