By Rebekah Riess, Isabel Rosales, CNN
(CNN) — The human remains recovered near a Tampa Bay area bridge Sunday have been identified as the second missing University of South Florida doctoral student, Nahida Bristy, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said Friday.
Bristy and fellow doctoral student Zamil Limon, both 27 and originally from Bangladesh, were last seen on April 16 in Tampa. Limon’s body was found on April 24 on the Howard Frankland Bridge.
Two days later, a black trash bag was spotted on the shoreline just south of where Limon was found.
Inside, investigators discovered another set of human remains in an “advanced stage of decomposition,” according to an arrest affidavit.
The bag was tied in a knot, in the same manner as the one containing Limon’s remains. Investigators also noted the body was wearing “similar clothing based on the unique style that Nahida Bristy was last seen on video surveillance,” according to the affidavit.
Like Limon, the body had multiple stab wounds.
Limon’s roommate, Hisham Abugharbieh, is in custody and has been charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder with a weapon in Limon and Bristy’s deaths. He also faces charges of unlawfully moving a dead body, failure to report a death with intent to conceal, tampering with physical evidence, false imprisonment and battery, in connection with Limon and Bristy’s deaths, the state attorney’s office said.
Abugharbieh, 26, will remain in detention as he awaits trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Prosecutors had asked that he be held in jail due to the “brutal and violent nature” of the alleged crimes.
Limon’s death was ruled a homicide, with a medical examiner’s report noting a deep stab wound to his lower back that penetrated his liver, among other wounds, according to court documents filed in Hillsborough County Court.
Investigators had called Bristy’s family in Bangladesh last week to say they believed she may be dead, based on the amount of blood found in the apartment Limon shared with the suspect, Bristy’s brother told CNN affiliate WTSP.
Abugharbieh was arrested the morning of April 24 at a home in Lutz, Florida, after law enforcement responded to a domestic violence incident involving a family member, the sheriff’s office said.
Bristy was a doctoral student of chemical engineering at USF. She had a master’s of engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and a bachelor’s of science in applied chemistry and chemical engineering from the Noakhali Science and Technology University in Bangladesh, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She was a “talented and promising student,” Professor Mohammad Ismail, the NSTU vice chancellor, said in a post on social media and the university website.
“Her untimely death is an irreparable loss to the university and the nation,” Ismail wrote.
Bristy’s dream “was to come back to Bangladesh, work here, do something big and contribute to society,” her brother Zahid Pranto told CNN Monday. “She was the perfect sister. She was the perfect daughter of her family.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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