Celebration of life held to honor Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer

The community will gather Friday to honor the life of  Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, who police say was murdered by her husband inside their home April 1.

A celebration of life will be held at 12:30 p.m. at Church by the Glades in Coral Springs.

Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Metayer.

According to Coral Springs Police, Stephen Bowen shot and killed his wife inside their home. Bowen told a relative he shot his wife because he “couldn’t take it anymore,” an arrest report said, before he was arrested in Plantation.

Reshida Gibson met Metayer at Florida A&M. They were in the same sorority, and she said Metayer was her big sister.

“She kind of took me under her wing; she guided me with such grace,” Gibson said. “All of us sorority sisters have gotten together, praying and leaning on one another, trying to get through this.”