St. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) – Searchers have found human remains in water near where the body of a missing USF grad student was found last week, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said.
Hillsborough deputies, along with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, found the remains Sunday in water near Interstate 275 and Fourth Street North.
The remains have been taken to the Pinellas County Medical Examiner’s Office. Positive identification has not yet been determined.
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USF students Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy had been missing for a week when Limon’s body was found April 24 on the Howard Frankland Bridge. Bristy remains missing.
Limon’s roommate, Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, was arrested April 24 and has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with a weapon, as well as battery; false imprisonment; tampering with evidence; failure to report a death to law enforcement of medical examiner; and unlawfully holding or moving a dead human body in an unapproved condition.
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