Tragically, a missing local college student struck a community.
Police found Christian Aguilar’s murder as they looked into his disappearance.
Who was Christian Aguilar? University of Florida student
Christian Aguilar, who was born on February 20th, 1994, was a student at the University of Florida pursuing a career as a biomedical engineer.
Aguilar was last seen by his friend Pedro Bravo on September 20, 2012.
The young man’s father Carlos Aguilar described the incident to a local CBS affiliate in Miami as “a father’s nightmare,” adding, “There are no words to describe how horrible it is.
“It’s suffering and suffering and we cry and cry again, that’s something that is killing us little by little.”
Erika Friman, the late Christian’s fiancée, claims that the victim and her “were soulmates.”
“You don’t expect to lose your love that young, and not in such a traumatic way,” she told ABC News.
“At the end of the day, when I think of all these unknowns, I think of how much Christian loved me and that’s kind of what gets me through it.”
She added: “Christian made me really happy and we had so many things in common.
“People tell me all the time, ‘oh you’re so strong, you’re so brave.’
“I’m kind of just like…’If it was the love of your life you lost, and this is the one thing you can do for him, for his family, for his memory, you would find a way to pull it all together too.'”
Christian was killed by his friend Pedro Bravo the night he vanished.
Bravo poisoned Christian as the two were hanging out, then strangled him to death.
He killed the victim by strangling him, then discarded his body in a forested area in Levy County.
Bravo was taken into custody and accused of killing Christian in the first degree on September 24, 2012.
On August 5, 2014, Bravo’s trial got underway, and fresh information about the night Christian vanished came to light.
He was allegedly envious because Christian was dating Erika Friman, Bravo’s ex-girlfriend.
Erika said: “It was sickening, almost, just because we knew him for so long and Christian was his friend.
“This was a person we knew. This was intentional, it makes it all so much worse.
She compared Bravo’s mind to “a sociopath, or a sick person.”
“It’s like the knife just turns in your heart kind of thing.”
She compared Bravo’s mind to “a sociopath, or a sick person.”
“A lot of it was his obsession for me, and how he wanted me back, and how he wanted to be with me.”
Bravo was given a life sentence without the possibility of release on August 15, 2014, and is now serving it at Florida’s Taylor Correctional Institution.