A former San Diego TikTok star will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his estranged wife and her lover in October 2021, a judge ruled Friday during a heated proceeding.
Ali Abulaban, 32, who went by “JinnKid” on social media, was sentenced to two consecutive prison sentences of 25 years to life, without the possibility of parole, for the murders of his wife, Ana Abulaban, 28, and Rayburn Cardenas Barron, 29, at the Spire San Diego luxury apartment complex in the East Village, which he admitted to during trial.
Ali testified during his trial in May that he could not stop shooting Ana and Barron after finding them in bed together. He was convicted in May of two counts of first-degree murder, NBC San Diego reported.
The convicted killer went by JinnKid on TikTok and had approximately 940,000 followers at the time of the murders. His account featured comedy skits and impersonations of the character Tony Montana from the 1983 film “Scarface,” Deputy District Attorney Taren Brast said after Ali’s arraignment in October 2021.
“He is a very talented actor. When I saw the ‘Scarface’ videos, it’s as if when he committed these crimes, he became that persona of Scarface,” San Diego Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Fraser said of Ali during the hearing. “Just the cold-blooded killing without remorse.”
During Ali’s sentencing, the crowd cheered, and he mockingly clapped in response, video of the proceeding shows.