Two Bangladeshi students of the University of South Florida, Jamil Ahmed Limon and Nahida Sultana Brishti, were killed in what prosecutors described as a planned murder. According to a report by local outlet Tampa Bay 28, the accused, 26-year-old Hisham Abugarbiyah, has been charged with murder, and prosecutors have requested that he be held without bail.

Court documents state that Hisham attacked Limon and Brishti inside his apartment using a sharp weapon, inflicting multiple fatal injuries. After the killings, he allegedly attempted to erase evidence by placing Limon’s body in a black plastic bag and dumping it near the Howard Frankland Bridge. Investigators found that Hisham destroyed the victims’ belongings and that his phone and car GPS data placed him at the crime scenes.

Forensic tests confirmed the victims’ DNA on recovered blood samples. The autopsy found multiple stab wounds on Limon’s body, which was in a decomposed state, and his death was officially ruled a homicide.