{"id":254151,"date":"2026-05-01T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:27:09","slug":"sheriff-identifies-body-found-in-tampa-bay-as-2nd-missing-student-from-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/254151\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff identifies body found in Tampa Bay as 2nd missing student from Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A body found in Tampa Bay has been identified as the second missing University of South\u2026<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A body found in Tampa Bay has been identified as the second <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/florida-usf-bangladesh-grad-students-missing-e169f746bbb2fe497198eea9e616c8ee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing University of South Florida doctoral studen<\/a> t from Bangladesh, a sheriff said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nahida Bristy\u2019s remains were found Sunday in a garbage bag, discovered by a kayaker whose fishing line got snagged, said Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister. The positive identification on the decomposed body was eventually made using DNA and dental records, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The body of her friend, fellow USF doctoral student Zamil Limon, was in another garbage bag that was found two days before that on a bridge over the bay. Limon\u2019s roommate, Hisham Saleh Abugharbeih, was taken into custody the same day and faces two charges of murder.<\/p>\n<p>Chronister said the suspect showed no emotion when investigators presented him with details of the killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was nonreactive,\u201d Chronister said. \u201cHe was callous and showed no emotion when we showed him the information we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two students were murdered around the same time and place, though detectives need to investigate further before they can decide that conclusively, the sheriff said. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said detectives didn\u2019t yet know a motive for the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A body found in Tampa Bay has been identified as the second missing University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-254151","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\/254151","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=254151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}