Murdered USF Students: Roommate Charged

0:00It's May 1st. Welcome in. This is U.S. News Today, where National Headlines meet AI. Authorities in Hillsboro County just identified the body pulled from Tampa Bay as Nahida Bristy, a doctoral student at the University of South. Florida from Bangladesh. She's the second victim in this case following her friends Emile Limone, also a U.S.F. doctoral student. Their roommate, 26-year-old Haisham Salah Abu Garbi, faces two counts of first-degree murder after cops linked him to both killings. Bristy's remains turned up Sunday in a garbage bag snagged by a kayaker's line, while Limone's was found two days earlier on a bridge over the bay. Both students vanished on April 16th, which was totally out of character since they never missed appointments. Investigators connected the dots quick when they hit up the shared apartment. The sheriff called it a monstrous, premeditated crime, noting the suspect's state stone-cold when shown the evidence. Limone's study geography, environmental science, and policy, Bristy was in chemical engineering, and Avogarbi had dropped out.

1:06Families got the tough news, and the community is reeling from losing these promising scholars. Cops found blood everywhere in the apartment kitchen, hallway, even a fetal shaped outline by the suspect's bed, plus Limone's glasses, ID, wallet, and bloody clothes in the trash compactor. Bristy's blood stained the suspect's car floorboards, and GPS plus video tracked him dumping the bodies across the bay. Phone forensics uncovered wipe data, but creepy searches, like how knives pier skulls, or if gunshots carried in neighbors, plus buys of heavy trash. Bags and wipes right before, motive still a mystery, but this calculated trail keeps the case locked tight as trial prep ramps up.