{"id":215372,"date":"2026-04-02T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215372\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:32:12","slug":"florida-democratic-politician-found-dead-in-her-home-husband-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215372\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Democratic Politician Found Dead In Her Home, Husband Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Florida Democratic Politician<br \/>\n                          Found Dead In Home, Husband Arrested<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              April 1, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:36 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260401_81ee854d1df44d15b7688edf2dc89fa1\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:dcd43a34-e824-423c-b055-6b7724eb8291\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/81ee854d1df44d15b7688edf2dc89fa1_md.jpg\" alt=\"Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen facebook\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Metayer Bowen, a Florida Democratic politician gearing up to run for Congress, was found dead in her home &#8230; and police say her husband has been arrested in connection with her death.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy was the vice mayor and commissioner of Coral Springs &#8230; and local police say they went to her home Wednesday morning for a wellness check and found her dead body.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260401_5c2c2b07456e4ea893c73b04a31d395d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:dcd43a34-e824-423c-b055-6b7724eb8291\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5c2c2b07456e4ea893c73b04a31d395d_md.jpg\" alt=\"Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen facebook 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cops say Nancy&#8217;s husband, Stephen Bowen, is in custody and her death is being investigated as a domestic violence incident. Police also say there are no additional suspects.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jared-moskowitz\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Moskowitz<\/a> says Nancy was about to announce she was running for Congress &#8230; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article315269982.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Miami Herald<\/a> reports the announcement was scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>      I\u2019m in shock. I was just with her on Saturday. She just buried her brother. She was about to announce she was running for Congress. Nancy was one of the nicest people I worked with. Always fighting for her community, always pushing to help. She had such a future. This is terrible <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjWaFneQN7\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/rjWaFneQN7<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaredEMoskowitz\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@JaredEMoskowitz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outlet, citing sources, reports Nancy was going to run in a Democratic primary for the seat held by Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/sheila-cherfilus-mccormick\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick<\/a>, who was indicted for allegedly funneling millions of dollars of disaster relief funds to her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy was elected in 2020 as the first Black and Haitian American woman commissioner of Coral Springs &#8212; she was reelected in 2024 &#8212; and in November 2025, she was appointed to serve a second term as the city&#8217;s vice mayor.<\/p>\n<p>RIP<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Democratic Politician Found Dead In Home, Husband Arrested Published April 1, 2026 5:36 PM PDT Nancy Metayer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-215372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}