Kayaker’s find ties USF student missing case to double murder

A kayaker found a decomposed body along a St. Petersburg shoreline later identified as Nahida Bristy, a missing USF graduate student, tying her death to the earlier discovery of Zamil Limon’s body in a trash bag on the Howard Frankland Bridge. Bristy’s roommate, Hisham Abugharbieh, has been charged with two counts of first‑degree murder and other offenses as investigators believe Bristy and Limon were killed around the same time at their Avalon Heights apartment. Evidence including blood at the suspect’s home, phone data, surveillance, and even ChatGPT search queries is being reviewed to determine a motive.