The husband of Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen shot her dead at their home with a shotgun that had been muzzled with a pillow, according to police records released Thursday.

A Florida vice mayor seen as a rising political star was found dead at her home Wednesday and her husband was arrested on suspicion of premeditated murder, authorities said.

“I’m gonna give you a reason,” he said. “My nephew, her husband, came to my house this morning and told me that he did something to her,” the uncle told the dispatcher. “I said, ‘Is she alive?’ He sai...