charged<\/a> with two counts of first-degree murder.<\/p>\nMr. Abugharbieh was also charged with unlawfully holding or moving a dead body, failure to report a death, tampering with evidence, false imprisonment and battery.<\/p>\n
Ms. Bristy lived on the university\u2019s campus but not with Mr. Limon and Mr. Abugharbieh. Both Mr. Limon and Ms. Bristy were from Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
A motive is still unclear, Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n
When detectives began investigating the missing persons\u2019 report, one of their first stops was a dumpster outside the building where Mr. Limon and Mr. Abugharbieh shared an apartment.<\/p>\n
They found Mr. Limon\u2019s glasses, student ID, wallet and clothes, \u201cwhich were extremely bloodied at the time,\u201d Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n
Investigators also searched Mr. Abugharbieh\u2019s car and found evidence of blood, which was later identified as Ms. Bristy\u2019s.<\/p>\n
After executing a search warrant at the apartment that Mr. Abugharbieh and Mr. Limon shared, investigators found evidence of a large pool of blood in the kitchen area that extended into the suspect\u2019s bedroom, Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Abugharbieh\u2019s phone had been recently wiped clean, but the sheriff said that a forensic analysis revealed a search history in the days before the victims were reported missing that included prompts like \u201ccan a knife penetrate a skull?\u201d and \u201ccan a neighbor hear a gunshot?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Abugharbieh also had recently purchased large, heavy-duty contractor bags, duct tape and cleaning spray. \u201cThis was calculated,\u201d Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe Mr. Limon and Ms. Bristy were both killed inside the apartment. Mr. Abugharbieh had deep lacerations on his hand and shoulder that investigators believe were defensive wounds, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n
As investigators were searching for the bodies of the missing students, members of the Mr. Abugharbieh\u2019s family told officials that on Sunday night that Mr. Abugharbieh had \u201cbattered\u201d and \u201ccommitted domestic violence against them,\u201d including trying to grope his sister.<\/p>\n
Investigators discovered Mr. Limon\u2019s remains in a large black trash bag on the side of the road on the Howard Frankland Bridge, which carries Interstate 275 across Old Tampa Bay between St. Petersburg and Tampa.<\/p>\n
He had been stabbed several times and bound by his hands and ankles, Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n
A kayaker who was fishing in a mangrove on Monday snagged his line on something and discovered a garbage bag that looked as if it contained a human body, Sheriff Chronister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains that were found in the waters of Tampa Bay this week have been identified as those…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":766760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[313091,57086,51,314691,8324,314690,50,314688,52,87627,314689],"class_list":{"0":"post-766759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dna-deoxyribonucleic-acid","9":"tag-forensic-science","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-hisham-abugharbieh","12":"tag-missing-persons","13":"tag-nahida-bristy","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tampa-fla","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-university-of-south-florida","18":"tag-zamil-limon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116501518619484524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}