Overview
- Hisham Abugharbieh, 26, was charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder with a weapon in the deaths of Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy.
- The charges followed Friday’s discovery of Limon’s remains on the Howard Frankland Bridge, with the medical examiner set to determine cause of death.
- Deputies took Abugharbieh into custody after a domestic violence call led to a brief SWAT standoff at a North Tampa home, and he initially faced counts including battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death and unlawfully moving a body.
- Bristy, 27, remains missing as marine, dive and ground teams continue searches near the bridge and across the bay.
- Limon and Bristy, both 27-year-old PhD students from Bangladesh last seen April 16 near the USF campus, have drawn appeals for information from authorities and concern across the university community.