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Former TikTok star sentenced to life in prison for killing Pinay wife, friend

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<div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17256680502791725668047119.jpeg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px">CALIFORNIA — Ali Abulaban — a former popular TikToker, who went by “Jinnkid” on social media — was sentenced on Friday in San Diego, California, to two consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole plus 50 years, for shooting to death his Filipina wife, 28-year-old Ana Abulaban and her friend, 29-year-old Rayburn Cardenas Barron three years ago. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px">Abulaban, 32 and who was already estranged from his wife, went to her apartment in San Diego on October 21, 2021, armed with a gun after learning from a listening device he installed on their 5-year-old daughter’s iPad that there was a man in her house. </p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/19/22/tiktok-star-accused-of-killing-fil-am-wife-ordered-to-stand-trial">READ: TikTok star accused of killing Fil-Am wife ordered to stand trial</a></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1725668067161Ali-Abulaban.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Ali and Ana met in Japan in 2014 when Ali was serving in the US Air Force.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">Ali moved back to the US after having been discharged and Ana back to the Philippines.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">In 2017, the two married and lived in Virginia with their daughter before moving to California.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><br/></div><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">According to the prosecutor, Abulaban’s controlling and abusive behavior prompted the separation.</p>

<p>Ali and Ana met in Japan in 2014 when Ali was serving in the US Air Force.</p>

Ali and Ana met in Japan in 2014 when Ali was serving in the US Air Force.

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Former TikTok star Ali Abulaban sentenced to life in prison for killing Pinay wife, friend

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Lenn Almadin-Thornhill

Published September 07, 2024 08:15 AM PHT

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