ORLANDO, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing, according to a report filed by prosecutors over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, also asked the artificial intelligence chatbot whether the vehicle identification number on his car could be changed, and whether he could keep a gun at home without a license, according to the pretrial detention report filed Saturday. ChatGPT responded that Abugharbieh\u2019s question sounded dangerous, according to the report.<\/p>\n
The remains of Abugharbieh\u2019s roommate, Zamil Limon, were found on the Howard Frankland bridge Friday morning, but Hillsborough County Chief Deputy Joseph Maurer said later that day that they were still searching for Limon\u2019s girlfriend, Nahida Bristy. On Sunday, the sheriff\u2019s office announced that a body had been found in a waterway near the bridge, but had not been identified.<\/p>\n
Abugharbieh was charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the first degree with a weapon in the deaths of Limon and Bristy, the sheriff\u2019s office announced Saturday. The former USF student was ordered held without bond on Saturday. A hearing is set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Limon and Bristy, both 27, were considering getting married, a relative said. They disappeared April 16. Limon was last seen at the off-campus apartment complex where he lived with Abugharbieh, and Bristy at a campus science building.<\/p>\n
Limon was studying geography, environmental science and policy, and Bristy was studying chemical engineering. She was a graduate of Noakhali Science and Technology University. The school, which spelled her last name as Brishti, said in a statement Saturday that she was a doctoral candidate and described her as a talented and promising student.<\/p>\n
A friend contacted police April 17 about being unable to reach both Bristy and Limon, despite repeated attempts by phone, according to the report. Police investigators searched Bristy\u2019s campus office the next day and found her purse, lunchbox, MacBook and iPad.<\/p>\n
At Limon\u2019s off-campus apartment, detectives questioned Limon\u2019s two roommates and noticed that Abugharbieh\u2019s left pinky finger was bandaged. When confronted by detectives, Abugharbieh denied any involvement with Limon\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n
The third roommate told detectives that Abugharbieh had used a cart overnight on April 16 and April 17 to move cardboard boxes from his room to the trash compactor. In the trash compactor, detectives found Limon\u2019s wallet and campus ID badge, credit card, eyeglasses and clothes that appeared to have blood on them.<\/p>\n
Detectives found blood leading from the kitchen to Abugharbieh\u2019s bedroom and more blood in his bedroom. In Limon\u2019s bedroom, they found Bristy\u2019s campus ID and credit cards, suggesting she had been at the apartment before she disappeared, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Using cellphone location and license plate reader data, detectives concluded that Abugharbieh\u2019s car and Limon\u2019s phone had both been on the bridge and on Clearwater Beach, the report said. Based on location data from Abugharbieh\u2019s phone, detectives searched around the bridge and found a trash bag containing Limon\u2019s body. The medical examiner concluded that Limon had numerous stab wounds.<\/p>\n
Three days after Limon and Bristy\u2019s April 16 disappearance, Abugharbieh asked Chat GPT, \u201cHas there been someone who survived a sniper bullet to the head\u201d and \u201cwill my neighbors hear my gun,\u201d according to the report. He also asked the chatbot four days after that, on April 23, \u201cWhat does missing endangered adult mean.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abugharbieh, a native-born U.S. citizen, was initially taken into custody on Friday at his family\u2019s home on preliminary charges that include unlawfully moving a dead body, failure to report a death, tampering with evidence, false imprisonment and battery. Reached by email on Monday, Jennifer Spradley, an attorney in the public defender\u2019s office in Tampa, said the office wouldn\u2019t comment on Abugharbieh\u2019s case.<\/p>\n
Officers encountered Abugharbieh as they responded to a report of domestic violence at his family\u2019s home, just north of the campus, and were able to move his relatives to safety. But then he barricaded himself inside and refused to come out. A SWAT team responded \u2014 along with a drone, a robot and crisis negotiators \u2014 before Abugharbieh came out with his hands up, apparently wearing nothing but a blue towel.<\/p>\n
Abugharbieh had been a USF student but was not currently enrolled. University records showed he had attended the school from spring 2021 through spring 2023 and had pursued a bachelor\u2019s degree in management, a university spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Schneider and Brumfield write for the Associated Press. Brumfield reported from Cockeysville, Md.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7078,2389,580,2517,7657,13732,13540,13491,2393,13493,7843,157,13505,13733,26,13734,13492],"class_list":{"0":"post-19342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-body","9":"tag-campus","10":"tag-chatgpt","11":"tag-day","12":"tag-death","13":"tag-florida-bridge","14":"tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff","15":"tag-hisham-abugharbieh","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-nahida-bristy","18":"tag-office","19":"tag-openai","20":"tag-saturday","21":"tag-sheriff","22":"tag-student","23":"tag-waterway","24":"tag-zamil-limon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}