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Prosecutors seek death penalty for man accused of killing 2 USF students from Bangladesh

The Independent·Via AP news wire·24 days ago
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A man accused of killing two University of South Florida students from Bangladesh will face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors indicated Friday. The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office filed a notice to seek the death penalty a day after a grand jury indicted Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh, 26, on two counts of first-degree murder and several other charges. Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, both 27-year-old doctoral students from Bangladesh, disappeared April 16. Limon was last seen at the off-campus apartment complex where he lived with Abugharbieh, and Bristy at a campus science building. Abugharbieh was arrested about a week later and has remained in jail. Jennifer Spradley, an attorney in the public defender’s office in Tampa , has said the office wouldn’t comment on Abugharbieh’s case. Detectives used cellphone location and license plate reader data to track Abugharbieh’s car and Limon’s phone to the bridge where Limon’s body was found on April 24.…

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