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A candelight vigil celebrating the life of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen will take place from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 3, at Coral Springs City Hall.<\/p>\n
When Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen failed to appear at a commission meeting Wednesday, her colleagues immediately sensed something was wrong. They texted her husband, Stephen Bowen, asking if he had heard from her \u2014 not yet knowing that, hours later, he would be arrested and accused of shooting her to death.<\/p>\n
Metayer Bowen, 38, had been scheduled to attend two meetings that morning, one at 8:30 a.m. and another at 9 a.m., police said. Instead, she was found dead later that day in the second-floor primary bedroom of the home she shared with her husband.<\/p>\n
According to Bowen\u2019s arrest affidavit, his wife\u2019s body had been wrapped in blankets. Bowen, 40, told a relative he\u2019d shot her three times with a shotgun, the affidavit says. He now faces charges of premeditated murder and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n
No attorney was listed for Bowen in court records as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Luwam Ghermay, an administrative manager in Coral Springs, had received a text from Metayer Bowen\u2019s phone around 8 a.m. titled \u201cDiscussion Items\u201d but did not hear from her again, according to police. Ghermay then reached out to her husband, asking if he could let Metayer Bowen know they were looking for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey Luwam, texted her. She is not picking up,\u201d Bowen replied, according to the arrest report. When Ghermay followed up, noting that Metayer Bowen had missed both a commission meeting and a charter school board meeting, Bowen asked where she was and said her car was not at their home.<\/p>\n
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An arrest report says Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen (left) was found shot dead in her home. Her husband, Stephen Bowen (right), is charged with murder. Facebook <\/p>\n
Ghermay then urged him to call police Maj. Edmond DeRosa, who had already directed officers to respond to the residence, on the 800 block of Northwest 127th Avenue.<\/p>\n
Officers first arrived at the Bowen home at 10:21 a.m. Wednesday but saw no cars in the driveway and were unable to make contact with anyone inside. A neighbor told police they had seen Metayer Bowen walking her dog around midnight. Officers attempted to call Bowen several times but received no response.<\/p>\n
About an hour later, Bowen\u2019s parents, Lincoln and Yvonne Bowen, arrived at the home. They had spoken with Metayer Bowen\u2019s mother, who said police were trying to locate her daughter. Bowen\u2019s parents said they had no way to enter the house and that the last time they had spoken with their son was around 4 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n
During that conversation, Bowen, who is a certified radiologic technologist, told them he had experienced a panic attack at work \u2014 listed in the affidavit as Delray Medical Center \u2014 and planned to speak with his wife about it.<\/p>\n
His mother told police she was unaware of any marital problems between the couple, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n
Around 12:30 p.m., officers returned to the home. This time, one officer noticed \u201cdefects\u201d on the exterior of the second floor that appeared \u201cindicative of outward force\u201d and \u201cconsistent with damage caused by projectiles,\u201d detectives wrote in the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
Police later located Bowen using license plate reader data, which showed his Ford F-150 in a parking lot at an apartment building at 551 NW 42nd Ave. in Plantation.<\/p>\n
Detectives say Bowen met with another man and handed him a bag that looked like a firearm case. The man then went into the building with the bag and later came out without it. Police detained Bowen at the scene.<\/p>\n
The man later told police that he and Bowen were both Masons and that he thought they were getting together that day to discuss a meeting. He said he did not know what Bowen had done but recalled Bowen saying, \u201cThey\u2019re here for me,\u201d as officers moved in.<\/p>\n
Around 1:51 p.m., Coral Springs police received a 911 call from Bowen\u2019s uncle Owen Small, who told dispatchers his nephew had come to his home earlier that morning and admitted he had \u201cdone something\u201d to his wife and that she was no longer alive.<\/p>\n
At that point, police decided to send in a SWAT team and forced their way into the Bowen home through a rear sliding glass door. Inside, officers found Metayer Bowen\u2019s body in the couple\u2019s bed. She was pronounced dead at 2:24 p.m.<\/p>\n
Later that evening, detectives went to interview Small, who said Bowen had showed up at his home around 10 a.m. and asked him to hold onto a shotgun for a couple of weeks, warning that he would need gloves or a bag to handle it.<\/p>\n
Small said he asked Bowen if he had shot someone. According to the arrest report, Bowen replied that he had shot his wife three times the night before. Bowen said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t take it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowen stayed at Small\u2019s home for about two hours, during which time other family members arrived and were told what happened. He eventually left alone in his truck a little after noon, saying he planned to meet with an attorney.<\/p>\n
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Nancy Metayer Bowen’s home was empty Thursday, and two holes could be seen on the second floor from the outside. Amanda Rosa Miami Herald <\/p>\n