{"id":218767,"date":"2026-04-04T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:38:14","slug":"slain-florida-politician-nancy-bowen-was-sister-of-late-parkland-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218767\/","title":{"rendered":"Slain Florida Politician Nancy Bowen Was Sister of Late Parkland Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murdered Pol Nancy Bowen
\n Brother Was Parkland Survivor Who Died By Suicide<\/p>\n

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\n April 4, 2026
\n 4:47 AM PDT
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\n April 4, 2026
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The Florida politician allegedly murdered by her husband this week was the sister of a Parkland school survivor who took his own life last year.<\/p>\n

Nancy Metayer Bowen<\/a> — the Vice Mayor of Coral Springs — posted a message to Facebook<\/a> in December revealing that her brother, Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer, had passed away, while providing a link to his GoFundMe page.<\/p>\n

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TMZ reported Donovan died by suicide<\/a> after battling schizophrenia for years. Donovan was among the survivors of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.<\/p>\n

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Nikolas Cruz<\/a> shot to death 17 people and injured 17 others, before he was arrested and later convicted for the deadly rampage, getting sentenced to life in prison without parole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As for Donovan’s sister, Nancy, she was found dead<\/a> inside her Coral Springs home on Wednesday morning after her husband, Stephen Bowen<\/a>, killed her using a shotgun, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Cops say Stephen confessed to the crime, telling his uncle he “couldn’t take it anymore.” His uncle then called 911<\/a> and allegedly told a dispatcher Stephen admitted to killing Nancy.<\/p>\n

Stephen was arrested and booked into the Broward County Jail<\/a> for premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat\u00a0988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murdered Pol Nancy Bowen Brother Was Parkland Survivor Who Died By Suicide Published April 4, 2026 4:47 AM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218767","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\/218767","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=218767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}