Three years before he was accused of killing two doctoral students in Florida, a home violence incident with Hisham Abugharbieh’s brother and mom highlighted his household’s issues about what they referred to as his erratic behavior.
During the May 9, 2023, incident, Abugharbieh started arguing together with his brother concerning his “erratic behavior,” in keeping with the police report obtained by NCS. The brother started recording Abugharbieh, who ultimately punched his sibling, inflicting him to fall to the bottom, in keeping with the report.
According to the report, Abugharbieh additionally kicked his mom in the again throughout the encounter, inflicting her to fall.
The police report outlines Abugharbieh’s alleged behavior before he was later charged with killing his roommate, Zamil Limon, and Nahida Bristy, each 27-year-old University of South Florida students initially from Bangladesh.
The two had been final seen nearly two weeks ago in Tampa. Limon’s physique was discovered on a bridge per week later, and investigators consider Bristy was additionally killed. Another set of human stays had been later discovered, however they haven’t but been confirmed to be Bristy’s.
During an interview with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office after the 2023 incident, Abugharbieh stated “I created my brother. I am his god,” and “This is my first life here,” in keeping with the police report.
Abugharbieh was arrested on a misdemeanor cost of easy battery and positioned below the Baker Act, a Florida legislation that permits for a maintain of as much as 72 hours of these with a psychological sickness who pose a hazard to themselves or others.
His member of the family indicated to police that whereas Abugharbieh had not been recognized with a psychological sickness, his behavior had worsened over current weeks, the report says.
In a sufferer influence letter submitted to the courtroom, a relative stated Abugharbieh’s behavior had modified over the previous couple of years after he started utilizing medical marijuana.
“Hisham used to be a cool guy. A supportive and helpful eldest son,” the relative wrote. “It turned him mentally ill with hurtful behavior and anger problems.”
Despite this obvious change in Abugharbieh, the relative stated they had been nonetheless left “shocked” by his arrest and added they filed a petition for involuntary remedy for substance abuse.
“I hope that the court will help Hisham … and put him under treatment and stop him using medical marijuana because it is not for him since he has never had any disease requires (sic) drug use,” the relative wrote.
The fees in opposition to Abugharbieh in the battery case had been later dropped, courtroom data present. However, an injunction was granted by a choose, prohibiting him from coming close to his brother or his dwelling by May 2025.
Abugharbieh, now 26, faces two counts of first-degree premeditated homicide with a weapon in the deaths of the University of South Florida students.
Prosecutors allege Abugharbieh requested ChatGPT a sequence of questions — together with about placing a human physique in a dumpster — in the times before Limon and Bristy vanished.
He additionally ordered duct tape, trash baggage, lighter gas, hearth starter and charcoal from Amazon in the week before, and monetary data cited in a prison affidavit present a pretend beard had been shipped from Amazon on April 15.