this is horrifying…
Independent news : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/university-south-florida-students-murder-charge-b2964877.html
Fb post where i found info:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AYucG6AgT/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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This was not inevitable. Before Zamil and Nahida ever met him, the system had already seen him.
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Before noon on April 16, Nahida Bristy called her mother in Bangladesh from a campus laboratory in Tampa. She told her how busy the days were. Her brother Zahid, asked later what she had said, used three words: nothing unusual, ordinary.
By then, her boyfriend, Zamil Limon, had already been gone for hours. He had been last seen at nine that morning at the apartment he shared with a roommate named Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh. Three days earlier, Zamil had told his family in Bangladesh not to call him for a while. He was finishing his thesis. It was due the next day: two years of work on using generative AI to monitor Florida's shrinking wetlands.
He had a plane ticket home for July, his first trip back since arriving at USF. His brother described him as the kind of person who always put a smile on his face.
Nahida was a chemical engineer in her first year of doctoral work. Her brother said there had been no single day without contact with her. Her father had recently had an operation. Her mother kept crying in the next room. She, too, had a ticket home for July, the same month as Zamil. They had talked, both families said, about marriage someday--after they both got their degrees.
They were both twenty-seven.
Both of their phones went dark within an hour of each other.
Eight days later, Zamil's remains were found near the Howard Frankland Bridge on the morning of April 24. The killings, investigators believe, took place inside the apartment Zamil and Hisham shared. By Saturday morning, Hisham--the man now charged with killing them--had been charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder.
Late Friday night, detectives called Nahida's family in Bangladesh, according to her brother, and told them what the apartment had looked like when they entered it. The volume of blood with her DNA on it. They told them Nahida's body might never be recovered. They told them she may have been dismembered.
This is the part of the story that haunts me, because Hisham did not arrive in this moment from nowhere. The record around him had been darkening in plain view for years. He had been arrested twice in 2023 on battery charges. That same year, his own brother filed two domestic-violence petitions against him--one granted, one denied--alleging that Hisham had attacked him and their mother during an argument over being asked to leave the family home.
The granted injunction stayed in place for nearly two years. Last May, when it was about to expire, the brother went back to court and asked for it to be renewed. He told the judge, in plain words, that he did not want to run the risk of him returning.
The judge denied the renewal.
The courts already had documented evidence that Hisham was violent enough that his own family had needed legal protection from him. When that protection lapsed, nothing in the system flagged him as a risk to anyone else. He was free to sign a lease.
Sometime around that, he became the roommate of an international student named Zamil Limon, a young man who had no family in this country and no practical way of knowing any of his roommate's history. The earlier charges had been wiped through a diversion program. The court records were partly sealed. The expired injunction was no longer in force. Zamil moved in next to a man whose own brother had begged a judge to keep him at a distance.
Less than a year later, Zamil and Nahida were dead.
A man with prior battery charges, two domestic-violence petitions, one granted injunction, one denied renewal, and a documented pattern of violence against his own family ended up living with a lone foreign student who had no way to see any of it.
There is a particular cruelty in the system that receives Bangladesh's most disciplined and ambitious children. It filters them by GRE scores, bank statements, and visa interviews. It tracks whether they can pay, whether they will return, whether their documents stay clean. It deports them for missed forms, for expired statuses, even for protests or opinions.
The students are the ones who must prove, again and again, that they belong here. But did they try to make the "here" safe for us?
The phone calls home from Tampa to Dhaka stopped on April 16. They resumed eight days later.
But they were not calls from children telling their families they missed them. They were calls from a country explaining, too late, what it had missed.
tldr: Limon was murdered by his roommate who had multiple felony but they were non-discoverable, police saying nahida was probably dismembered.