SAN DIEGO (AP) — A TikTok star with nearly a million online followers pleaded not guilty on Monday to shooting & killing his newly estranged wife & a man she was with last week at a San Diego high-rise.
Prosecutors said Ali Abulaban had surreptitiously installed a listening device on his 5-year-old daughter’s tablet device & when he heard his wife & another man talking, he went to her apartment & shot them to death.
After the shootings, Abulaban, still armed, picked up his daughter from school, Deputy District Attorney Taren Brast said.
The details were revealed during the San Diego County Superior Court arraignment for Abulaban, who pleaded not guilty to 2 counts of murder as well as special-circumstance allegations of multiple killings.
Brast said outside court that Abulaban, 29, is a TikTok star known as JinnKid, with more than 940,000 followers on the social media app. His account features comedy skits & impersonations of the character Tony Montana from the 1983 film “Scarface.”
Police identified the victims as Ana Abulaban, 28, of San Diego & Rayburn Cadenas Barron, 29, of National City.
Brast said Ali Abulaban confessed to detectives and accused his wife of cheating, although the prosecutor said she believes Barron was a friend.
According to Brast, Ana Abulaban had asked her husband to move out Oct. 18. He checked into a hotel.
Three days later, Brast said, Ali Abulaban sneaked back into the apartment and trashed it while his wife was gone. He also installed the listening app on his daughter’s iPad.
Hours later, Abulaban was listening to the app when he heard his wife & a man talking & giggling & he raced back to the high-rise. Security camera video showed him running out of the elevator to the apartment.
Brast said Abulaban shot Barron 3 times before shooting his wife in her head. Abulaban then called his mother & confessed.
After he picked up his daughter, he called police while driving & they arrested him 45 minutes later. His daughter was in the vehicle.
Judge Kimberlee Lagotta ordered Abulaban jailed without bail. The judge also issued a protective order that requires Abulaban to stay away from his daughter, who is being cared for by family.
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