{"id":253459,"date":"2026-05-01T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:16:07","slug":"aunt-mourns-murdered-usf-student-during-prayer-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253459\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt mourns murdered USF student during prayer service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grieving the loss of USF students Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, the community gathers for a prayer service for Zamil.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The aunt of one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/crime\/usf-missing-students-murder-timeline-2026-killer-zamil-limon-nahida-bristy\/67-37bec3f9-46d1-4625-95a9-a9edf4fe50b6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">University of South Florida students killed<\/a> said she is overcome with grief. She spoke out as the community honored her nephew Zamil Limon at a prayer service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t explain, I can&#8217;t explain what&#8217;s going on with my heart,\u201d Taslima Islam, Zalim\u2019s aunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Islam is Zamil\u2019s aunt. She&#8217;s in town from Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and my nephew&#8217;s plan was, next year, we will live together. I wanted to move there to be with him,\u201d Islam said.<\/p>\n<p>She said Zamil only lived with Hisham Aburghabieh, the man facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/local\/hillsboroughcounty\/police-investigation-lake-forest-usf-tampa\/67-8dcd9466-dd00-4836-ac06-9f3aee39e510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">first-degree murder charges<\/a> for killing Zamil and Nahida Bristy, for two months at Avalon Heights. Islam said she left feeling on edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere was security? I am feeling scared now. If I see any persons or suddenly, I&#8217;m walking and I see any men. I&#8217;m getting scared. I&#8217;m not feeling mentally well. I feel sick,\u201d Islam said.<\/p>\n<p>Community members like Mohammad Uddin also gathered for the prayer service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn February, we had a program that is called International Mother Language Day and she performed as the chorus. She also had a solo. Zamil was part of our chorus also,\u201d Uddin said.<\/p>\n<p>He said their lives were cut short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a big loss. They were two persons who came to the United States with a dream,\u201d Uddin said.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the two students said they usually come to this Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area to pray together, but now they&#8217;re left with memories of their cheerful spirits and smiles that would light up a room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo USF, to the Bangladesh community, from Orlando to Tampa. Everyone feels empty without them,\u201d a close friend of Zamil said.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said that once Nahida Bristy&#8217;s remains are identified. They will have a prayer service for her as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grieving the loss of USF students Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, the community gathers for a prayer service&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-253459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253459","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=253459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}