Second USF doctoral student Nahida Bristy identified in homicide case
Remains found near a Tampa Bay bridge have been identified as Nahida Bristy, the second missing University of South Florida doctoral student. Bristy disappeared on April 16; fellow student Zamil Limon was found dead on April 24. Investigators later recovered Bristy’s remains in a bag on the shoreline, and Bristy’s roommate, Hisham Abugharbieh, faces two counts of first-degree premeditated murder and related charges in both deaths. Bristy was a USF chemical engineering doctoral student from Bangladesh; NSTU officials and her family remember her as talented and promising.