‘Couldn’t take it anymore’: Husband blasted vice-mayor wife with shotgun silenced by pillow and then went downstairs to sleep, cops say

Using a pillow as a makeshift silencer, a Florida man blasted his wife, a vice mayor of a Sunshine State city, three times with a shotgun before he went to sleep with her body still upstairs, cops say.

Stephen Bowen stands accused of first-degree murder in the death of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, who was found dead in their home on Wednesday evening.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit released Thursday afternoon by police, officials first learned something was amiss when Metayer Bowen failed to show up to a scheduled commission meeting Wednesday morning…

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