TikTok star accused of killing wife

TikTok star accused of killing wife, partner in skyscraper shooting.

SAN DIEGO – Authorities released the man’s name on Monday. accused of fatally shooting his wife and companion in a high-rise apartment building in San Diego last week.

San Diego police responded to reports of a shooting around 3:10 p.m. Thursday at the apartment building. There, officers found two people with apparent gunshot wounds to the upper body in the living room of an apartment on the 35th floor.

Paramedics pronounced Ana Abulaban, 28, and Rayburn Cardenas Barron, 29, dead at the scene, according to Lt. Andra Brown.

Abulaban was married to the shooting suspect, Ali Nasser Abulaban, 29, and Barron was listed by police as her “partner.” Shortly after the shooting, officers located Ali Abulaban traveling in a vehicle with his 5-year-old daughter on the road.

He was detained without incident and later arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and Barron, police said. The girl was not with her father at the time of the shooting, according to police.

Ali Abulaban has more than 940,000 followers on TikTok, where he goes by the name JinnKid. He is known for his comic sketches and impressions, according to his profile on the social media app.

During his arraignment on Monday, Abulaban could be seen behind glass, shaking and sobbing uncontrollably in the courtroom.

On Oct. 18, the suspect moved out of the apartment following an incident of domestic violence, the prosecution said, adding that his wife had filed a restraining order against him and was seeking a divorce. Ali Abulaban was secretly keeping a key to the house and had been entering without his wife’s knowledge, according to the prosecution. During that time, he installed an app on his daughter’s iPad that allowed her to listen to conversations in the apartment through her cell phone, the attorneys said.

On the morning of October 21, Ali Abulaban heard his wife and a man’s voice speaking inside the apartment through the app, according to Deputy District Attorney Taren Brast. He drove from a hotel to the apartment complex, took an elevator to the 35th floor, ran to the apartment, and opened fire, Brast said. The prosecutor said Ali Abulaban shot Barron three times at the point-blank range, hitting his neck, cheek and the back of his head before pointing the gun at his wife, leaving a gunshot wound to the forehead.

Family members of the victims could be heard screaming in the courtroom as Brast spoke.

“The defendant fled the apartment,” Brast said. “The neighbors had heard the shots, they had witnessed the defendant leave the apartment. He then made a phone call to his mother admitting that he shot and killed his wife. ”

Video surveillance from the apartment complex showed the defendant in the apartment, and he allegedly confessed to the murder to police, Brast said.

“The defendant then fled the building, fetched his daughter from school, he still had the loaded gun in his car,” Brast said. “He told his daughter that he ‘hurt mom’ and was then taken into custody by the police.”

The judge denied bail, saying Ali Abulaban is a flight risk and perhaps a danger to society. A protection order was also drawn up to prohibit her from having any contact with family members, including her daughter, who is staying with a family member.

If convicted, Ali Abulaban faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The incident remains under investigation, Brown said.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact the department’s Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or anonymously by contacting Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.