Police logs show prior visits to vice mayor’s Coral Springs home; no domestic calls

Logs reveal Coral Springs officers were called to the house of Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen on several occasions prior to the day she was found shot dead in her bedroom by her husband’s hand, police say.

In the wake of Metayer’s death, many have speculated whether there were missed signs of domestic troubles. None of the calls for service to her home were for domestic incidents involving the couple, police said.

Those who knew the vice mayor told the Coral Springs News she was private when it came to her personal life, but she had many champions and loved ones in her corner throughout Broward County.

“She was excited for marriage and a family,” said Michelle Richards-Phillips, evangelist and community liaison at Living Word Christian Center in Coral Springs. She attended the couple’s engagement and booked their honeymoon package to Jamaica after they got married in November 2022.

But she said she wants Metayer — “the most beautiful soul” as Richards-Phillips called her — to be remembered for how she lived, not how she died.

“It was always, ‘What can I do for the people, how can I make the city a better place, how can I help the young people,’” Richards-Phillips said.

Now, Stephen Bowen, 40, is behind bars on charges of premeditated murder and tampering with evidence. He’s accused of shooting his 38-year-old wife with a shotgun and wrapping her in a comforter and garbage bag in their bed the evening of March 31 or the early morning of April 1.

Records show six total calls for service to the address since the couple bought their home in the Vizcaya at Lakes Coral Springs community the summer of 2023.

Though the Broward County Property Appraiser lists other owners of the home as of 2025, the couple was known to still live there, Broward court records show. The appraiser’s office told the Coral Springs News that Florida law sometimes allows elected officials to have their address exempt from public disclosure.

The first call came a few months after the couple finalized the property purchase. In November 2023, police were called to the home for a report of a disturbance. The call involved a contractor and subcontractor who got into an argument over floor work on the staircase of the home.

In August 2024, Metayer called police about a grand theft at her home, reporting a contractor had stolen from them.

Three other calls were for animal bite incidents. The couple had two dogs. Metayer’s dog, Bella, was found at the couple’s home April 1 and given over to family, while Bowen’s dog was with him when he was arrested in Plantation that day. His dog was in a Broward County animal shelter as of April 7, police said.

Metayer’s dog escaped from their house and bit another dog on April 15, 2025, according to police. Two calls on that day and a call two days later were related to the bite incident investigation.

Here are all the calls to the couple’s address and the listed reason:

• April 1, 2026, 10:04 a.m.— homicide
• April 17, 2025, 10:36 a.m. — 1017 (conduct) investigation
• April 15, 2025, 8:10 a.m. and 9:42 a.m. — two animal bite calls
• Aug. 6, 2024, 12:30 p.m. — grand theft
• Nov. 11, 2023, 1:42 p.m. — disturbance

The most recent call to the house was a homicide report the morning of April 1. Police initiated a missing person investigation that day when Metayer missed two city meetings, as investigators say her husband drove around Broward County trying to get rid of the shotgun he reportedly used to kill her.

Bowen’s parents told police that hours before their son killed his wife, he told them he’d had a panic attack at the Delray Medical Center, where he worked as a radiographic technician, records show.

His parents said they had no indication the couple had marital issues.

Bowen told his uncle that morning that he had shot his wife three times, only offering that he “couldn’t take it anymore” as an explanation, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Before her death, Metayer was preparing to run for Congress, a race that other local elected officials said she would have won.

“Nancy wanted to join us in Congress and be our colleague,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz said at an April 3 vigil honoring Metayer. “And had Nancy taken that step, Nancy would have won that race.”

Colleagues said Metayer workshopped the idea and garnered support before she planned to officially announce her campaign.

“She wanted the best for the City of Coral Springs and that’s why I think she wanted to go to Congress, so she could give back on a larger scale,” Richards-Phillips said. “That’s the mindset she had.”

Metayer first ran for office in Coral Springs in 2019, when she lost the mayoral election to current mayor Scott Brook. But she beat out a crowded field of five other candidates in 2020 to become the first Haitian American and Black female commissioner in the city.

Allison Beck contributed reporting to this story.

This story was originally published April 9, 2026 at 6:39 AM with the headline "Police logs show prior visits to vice mayor’s Coral Springs home; no domestic calls."