a message<\/a> to faculty and students.\n <\/p>\n\n Before his arrest Friday, Abugharbieh had been interviewed at least twice by law enforcement. He was initially talking to authorities but stopped cooperating as he was being questioned again Thursday, Maurer said.\n <\/p>\n
\n By Friday, the chief deputy said investigators were able to \u201clink the suspect to this case and to (Limon\u2019s) body.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n During his arrest, Abugharbieh barricaded himself inside a home, requiring a SWAT team and crisis negotiators to respond, the sheriff\u2019s office said. Video of his arrest shows an armored vehicle parked in the front yard as Abugharbieh walks out the front door with his hands up and a bath towel tied around his waist.\n <\/p>\n
\n Abugharbieh was arrested at his family\u2019s home, where a judge had previously prohibited him from entering due to domestic violence allegations made by his brother.\n <\/p>\n
\n The suspect was arrested twice in 2023 on charges of battery, which were later dropped, according to court records. But after one of those incidents, his brother filed for an injunction that prohibited Abugharbieh from coming near him or his home. In court filings, the brother alleged Abugharbieh attacked him and his mother during an argument in which the brother was telling him to get out of the house.\n <\/p>\n
\n When the injunction expired last May, the brother asked the court to extend it, saying he didn\u2019t want to \u201crun the risk of him returning.\u201d His request was denied.\n <\/p>\n
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\n The suspect had attended USF between 2021 and 2023 while he pursued a bachelor\u2019s degree in management, a spokesperson for the university told CNN.\n <\/p>\n
\n The students had been missing since last week, prompting friends in Florida and relatives in Bangladesh to look for answers.\n <\/p>\n
\n Before Limon\u2019s body was found, his brother told CNN the family was in \u201cdeep pain\u201d awaiting news.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s devastating for us,\u201d Zubaer Ahmed said. The brother said his family has been anxiously following updates. \u201cWe are becoming numb. Anything could be possible. We just want to know the truth or what happened to them. It\u2019s not possible that two students disappear out of nowhere.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
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\n Limon was last seen on April 16 around 9 a.m. at his off-campus home, about three blocks from the university\u2019s campus, police said. He had been pursuing a degree in geography, environmental science and policy since the fall of 2024.\n <\/p>\n
\n Bristy was last seen about an hour later at the Natural and Environmental Sciences Building on campus, police said. She enrolled at the university last fall and was studying chemical engineering.\n <\/p>\n
\n The following day, a family friend was unable to reach the pair and notified campus police.\n <\/p>\n
\n Detectives had been following leads and conducting searches in multiple locations when the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office elevated the pair\u2019s status to \u201cendangered\u201d on Thursday, citing new \u201cinformation that has come to light.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Limon had spoken highly of Bristy to his family in Bangladesh, telling them he was courting her and the pair had discussed the possibility of marriage, his brother said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe shared that she is a good girl, and she has a lot of talent, like she can sing and cook well,\u201d Ahmed, the brother, said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Limon had been hard at work on his thesis for the past two years, studying how to use generative AI to monitor shrinking wetland in South Florida, his brother said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cMy brother is very decent and a very simple person,\u201d Ahmed said. \u201cHe always put a smile on his face.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n After completing his PhD, Limon wanted to return to Bangladesh and get a job as a university professor, Ahmed said.\n <\/p>\n
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