{"id":241265,"date":"2026-04-22T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:48:11","slug":"authorities-search-for-missing-university-of-south-florida-doctoral-students-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/241265\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities search for missing University of South Florida doctoral students \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are searching for two University of South Florida doctoral students who have been missing for days.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the University of South Florida Police Department and the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Tuesday requested the public&#8217;s assistance in finding Zamil Limon and Nahida S. Bristy, both 27 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Zamil-Limon-and-Nahida-S.-Bristy.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Zamil Limon and Nahida S. Bristy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tUSFUSF<\/p>\n<p>Zamil Limon and Nahida S. Bristy<\/p>\n<p>The two were last seen on April 16. Police said they are friends and are believed to be together.<\/p>\n<p>Limon was last seen at around 9 a.m. that day near his residence in the 13000 block of Avalon Heights Boulevard in Tampa. Bristy was last seen around an hour later at the NES Building on USF&#8217;s Tampa campus. <\/p>\n<p>Limon is a doctoral student pursuing a degree in geography, environmental science and policy. Bristy, also a doctoral student, studies chemical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Missing person reports were filed with the university police and the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is asked to contact USF police at 813-974-2628.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are searching for two University of South Florida doctoral students who have been missing for days. Detectives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,6888],"class_list":["post-241265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-missing-persons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}