Overview
- The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday that Hisham Abugharbieh faces two counts of first-degree premeditated murder with a weapon in the deaths of Zamil Limon and Nahida S. Bristy.
- The upgrade followed Friday’s discovery of Limon’s remains on the Howard Frankland Bridge, which spans Old Tampa Bay between Tampa and St. Petersburg.
- Deputies took Abugharbieh into custody after a domestic-incident call at a North Tampa home where he briefly barricaded himself before surrendering to a SWAT team.
- Before the murder counts, he was booked on charges including battery, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, failure to report a death, and unlawfully moving a body.
- Bristy remains unlocated as marine and dive teams search the waters near the bridge, and an autopsy will determine Limon’s cause of death with no public motive disclosed.