Florida Democratic Party vice chair’s husband charged with murder after she was found dead at home

The hubby of the vice seat of the Florida Democratic Party is accused of premeditated execution and tampering with grounds aft his woman was recovered dead, according to jailhouse records.

Investigators confirmed that vice seat of the Florida Democratic Party and Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen's assemblage was recovered astir 10 a.m. during a payment check.

Few details person been released surrounding her death, including the cause.

On Thursday morning, Stephen Bowen appeared earlier a justice successful a enslaved tribunal proceeding wherever helium was ordered held without bond.

Stephen Bowen is accused of premeditated execution aft his wife, Florida Democratic Party vice seat Nancy Metayer Bowen, was recovered dormant Wednesday. (Coral Springs Police Department)

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"I person reviewed the probable origin affidavit. The tribunal does find probable origin for the charges," the justice said.

Bowen was archetypal elected to the Coral Springs City Commission successful 2020 and was re-elected successful 2024. She was appointed by the committee past November to service a second, one-year word arsenic vice mayor, according to her bio connected the city’s website. 

Before being elected to the commission, Bowen worked arsenic an biology idiosyncratic who formerly served connected the Broward County Soil and Water Conservation District, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. 

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was recovered dormant during a payment check. Her hubby is accused of execution and grounds tampering. (Nancy Bowen/Facebook)

Bowen's household confirmed her decease connected her societal media accounts. 

"Throughout her years successful nationalist office, she led with integrity, compassion, and an unwavering consciousness of purpose," the family’s connection said. 

"She believed successful bringing radical together, listening to those she served, and moving tirelessly to make affirmative alteration successful her community. To us, she was a root of strength, wisdom, and emotion — idiosyncratic who ever enactment others earlier herself.

"While galore knew her arsenic a person and advocate, we knew her arsenic a sister, a daughter, and a person whose warmth and laughter filled each room. Her bequest volition unrecorded connected not lone successful the policies she helped shape, but successful the countless lives she touched."

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, center, was recovered dormant successful her location Wednesday, authorities said.  (D.A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

The Coral Springs authorities Facebook leafage paid tribute to Bowen, calling her "leadership grounded successful compassion, strength, and an unwavering committedness to others."

"Her interaction connected Coral Springs is immeasurable, and her nonaccomplishment leaves a void successful our hearts. We inquire our assemblage to support her family, loved ones, and each who are grieving successful your thoughts and prayers. In this hard time, we basal unneurotic arsenic 1 city. We volition transportation her light, adjacent successful this darkness."

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen seated astatine a caller City Commission meeting.  (Coral Springs Goverment / Facebook)

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., said helium was saddened to perceive of Bowen's death, remembering her arsenic a "tireless advocate, a dedicated progressive leader, and a almighty dependable for her community."

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Rep. Jared Moskowitz posted connected X: "I'm successful shock. I was conscionable with her connected Saturday. She conscionable buried her brother. She was astir to denote she was moving for Congress." 

"Nancy was 1 of the nicest radical I worked with," helium said. "Always warring for her community, ever pushing to help. She had specified a future. This is terrible."

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Nancy Metayer Bowen (left), manager of the Florida Caribbean Vote, and Sandy Dorsainvil, manager of the Route 1804 Foundation, get acceptable earlier the departure of a caravan led by Haitian organizers to amusement enactment for the Harris run that began astatine the Little Haiti Cultural Center successful Miami and traveled to the North Miami Library, connected Saturday, August 10, 2024. (Getty Images)

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said she spoke with Bowen a fewer days ago.

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"I held her successful a hug astatine our party’s enactment summit, ne'er imagining it would beryllium 1 of our past moments together," Fried said successful a statement. 

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"Nancy was my person and a person to everyone who has ever believed that ideology was worthy warring for. The satellite is little agleam without her successful it."

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Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano contributed to this report.