{"id":605948,"date":"2026-04-25T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:59:14","slug":"roommate-of-slain-usf-student-is-charged-with-two-counts-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605948\/","title":{"rendered":"Roommate of slain USF student is charged with two counts of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The roommate of a slain University of South Florida doctoral student was charged with murder on Saturday as the search continues for another missing student.<\/p>\n

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Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, was charged with two counts of murder in the first degree with a weapon in the death of USF students Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Abugharbieh and Limon were roommates.<\/p>\n

Abugharbieh was arrested on Friday<\/a> after authorities found Limon\u2019s body on the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa, Florida, according to authorities. Bristy remains missing.<\/p>\n

USF\u2019s police department reported Limon and Bristy, two doctoral students at the school, missing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Upon his arrest on Friday, Abugharbieh was already facing charges of domestic violence, simple battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death and unlawfully holding or moving a dead body.<\/p>\n

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The murder charge carries a potential sentence of death or life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidence was presented to the State Attorney\u2019s Office, resulting in further charges against Abugharbieh,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement, while declining to comment further.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old suspect was enrolled at USF from spring 2021 through spring 2023, but was not currently enrolled, according to university. Abugharbieh was pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in management during his time at the school.<\/p>\n

Limon and Bristy were last seen on the morning of April 16. The pair were initially reported missing last week, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Bristy\u2019s older brother, Zahaid Hasan Pranto, 29, told NBC News <\/a>that his sister and Limon had a romantic relationship in the past, but were not dating at the time they went missing.<\/p>\n

Family members of the students also told NBC News it was out of character not to hear from Limon and Bristy, who both have family in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The roommate of a slain University of South Florida doctoral student was charged with murder on Saturday as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-605948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}