TRAGIC TWIST

Roommate Arrested After Missing Grad Student Found Dead

The deceased man’s roommate has been named as a suspect. He’s currently in custody.

A man pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of South Florida was found dead on the bridge connecting the cities of Tampa and St. Petersburg on Friday. Zamil Limon, 27, was one of two Bangladeshi students reported missing last week. The other, Nahida Bristy, 27, was last seen at USF’s Natural and Environmental Sciences building on the morning of April 16. Limon was last spotted at his off-campus home the same day. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday listed the two as being “endangered,” explaining that new information had come to light. On Friday morning, deputies arrested Limon’s roommate, 26-year-old Hisham Abugharbieh. They had been called to his residence for a domestic violence issue that involved a brief standoff with a SWAT team before he was taken into custody. Abugharbieh faces charges of failure to report a death, unlawfully moving a dead body, evidence tampering, domestic violence battery, and false imprisonment. Bristy is still missing and the investigation is ongoing. She is pursuing a degree in chemical engineering, while Limon studied geography, environmental science, and policy.