{"id":220067,"date":"2026-04-06T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220067\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:50:25","slug":"911-calls-reveal-panic-before-coral-springs-vice-mayors-body-discovered-inside-home-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220067\/","title":{"rendered":"911 calls reveal panic before Coral Springs vice mayor\u2019s body discovered inside home \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Panicked 911 calls were released Friday in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/husband-shot-coral-springs-vice-mayor-wrapped-her-body-in-garbage-bags-police-say\/3790196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">murder of Coral Springs vice mayor Nancy Metayer<\/a>, who was allegedly shot to death by her husband.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m calling to report a possible crime in Coral Springs,&#8221; a woman is heard telling the 911 operator.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/coral-springs-vice-mayor-death-investigation-nancy-metayer-bowen\/3789678\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">found at her home in the 800 block of Northwest 127th Avenue at around 10 a.m. Wednesday<\/a>,\u00a0after an investigation into her well-being, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested her husband, 40-year-old Stephen Bowen, in what was being investigated as an incident of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was taken into custody after she was found dead. NBC6&#8217;s Niko Clemmons reports\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Family members called 911 as they were with police to try to get inside the couple&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n<p>The woman caller insists that police should just &#8220;break down the door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no reason to break down the door, so without a warrant or something, we can&#8217;t just break it down,&#8221; the operator says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna give you a reason,&#8221; a man replies. &#8220;&#8230;OK, my nephew, her husband came to my house this morning &#8230;. And told me that he did something to her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was taken into custody after she was found dead Wednesday morning, police said. NBC6&#8217;s Niko Clemmons reports\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, Bowen&#8217;s uncle told police that Bowen said he shot Metayer three times with a shotgun the night before because he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t take it anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police eventually entered the home and found Metayer&#8217;s body wrapped in blankets and black garbage bags in the master bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>Bower was later arrested in Plantation.<\/p>\n<p>The community will come together in a vigil Friday night to remember Metayer.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panicked 911 calls were released Friday in the murder of Coral Springs vice mayor Nancy Metayer, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4555,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-220067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-coral-springs","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220067","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=220067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}