TikTok Star Sentenced After Brutually Killing Spouse & Man He Thought She Was Sleeping With

Throughout his sentencing listening to in a San Diego courtroom on Friday, Abulaban realized his destiny after he was convicted in Could of two counts of first-degree homicide for the killing of his spouse, Ana Abulaban, and Rayburn Barron.

On Friday, Choose Jeffrey Fraser sentenced the social media star to 2 consecutive life sentences with out parole, and 50 years to life for gun enhancements, in response to Courtroom TV, which live-streamed the listening to.

“As a matter of legislation, the defendant is ineligible for probation. But when he was eligible for probation, this courtroom wouldn’t give him probation,” Fraser mentioned.

“He is a really gifted actor,” he went on so as to add, earlier than evaluating Abulaban’s habits throughout the taking pictures to his Scarface impression movies, which he was identified for on TikTok. “It is as if when he dedicated these crimes, he grew to become that persona of Scarface. Simply cold-blooded killing with out regret. Any tears that he is cried on this courtroom have been for himself. They aren’t for Ray and Ana. That is the fact. He fears the implications — as he ought to — of his actions.”

“However as he sits right here at present, I do not know if he is actually sorry,” Fraser continued, calling Abulaban a “very egocentric particular person.”

“The underside line right here is he’ll die in jail. He won’t ever be a free man,” he mentioned, to which the courtroom applauded in response.

Fraser’s closing remarks got here after Abulaban appeared to get emotional whereas apologizing for his crimes, and cried as he addressed his daughter, whom he shared with Ana.

“I am sorry for what my silly actions have value you, for what’s been taken from you. I am sorry that now you not solely need to develop up with out your mom, however now it’s a must to develop up with out your father too. I am ashamed. However that’s the reason I’ll try each day to higher myself … and hopefully, someday come again residence to you,” he mentioned, earlier than arguing that he believes he ought to have the power for parole.

“Being despatched to jail with out the hope of ever getting out, truthfully appears like I am being despatched to hell, and that is terrifying. And I do not suppose that is proper both,” Abulaban added.

In the meantime, additionally throughout the sentencing listening to, per Courtroom TV, Ana’s sister yelled at Abulaban whereas giving a sufferer influence assertion. “If I had identified what my sister had been via … I might have flown once more to see her and performed my finest to take her away from you,” she mentioned.

In late Could, Abulaban was discovered responsible of two counts of first-degree homicide. He was additionally discovered responsible of the special-circumstance allegation of committing a number of murders, per Fox’s San Diego affiliate, KUSI.

Whereas Abulaban, 32, didn’t deny killing Ana, 28, and Barron, 29, he had pled not responsible, along with his protection group arguing he was “merely out of his thoughts.” The prosecution had been pushing for a first-degree conviction.

The official verdict, per KUSI, for Abulaban was that he was discovered responsible of deliberately utilizing a firearm to trigger nice bodily damage and dying to each victims.

Abulaban — who amassed almost 950K followers because of comedy skits — took the stand in his personal protection to inform his model of the occasions of October 21, 2021.

Abulaban’s declare is that “all judgment and purpose [flew] out the window” when he noticed his estranged spouse and his pal collectively, satisfied that they have been dishonest. You’ll be able to learn all the main points of his testimony right here.

He admitted to a historical past of violence in opposition to Ana underneath cross-examination. Per prosecutors, he was “harassing” Ana main as much as her dying, with Ana telling him to depart her alone. She even threatened to get a restraining order.

Abulaban additionally admitted to going into Ana’s condo the morning of her dying, whereas she wasn’t residence, and trashing the place — earlier than activating a recording app on their daughter’s iPad and hiding it close to Ana’s mattress in an try and catch her having intercourse.

It was after listening to her and a person speaking collectively on it later within the day, he rushed to the condo.

“I am already freaking out, excessive out of my thoughts, I am already amped up. I am driving over 90 miles an hour … so I can catch it earlier than it occurs, cease it with my presence,” Abulaban testified. “I heard that they have been making enjoyable of me, like, ‘Did Ali make this mess?’ She mentioned, ‘Yeah, and he purchased me these low-cost ass flowers.’ Let me inform you, if you hear your spouse discuss s–t about you to an undisclosed man, that is f–king painful.”

He mentioned he then began “double nostril-ing” cocaine from a bag, saying he did “in all probability essentially the most coke I’ve ever performed in a single second” on the drive over.

Abulaban entered the unit and killed them each, first taking pictures Barron 3 times, earlier than directing the gun to Ana, whom he shot within the head.

“Earlier than I might cease myself, I simply f–king snapped,” he mentioned on the stand, earlier than detailing the brutal taking pictures.

“My gun was in my hand, the following factor I am taking pictures and I can not cease. I am even startled, it is like I am watching it occur, I am within the passenger seat of my very own physique. I can not cease it,” he recalled. “I hear Ana screaming and crying. I do not even keep in mind taking pictures Ana.”

On the stand, he nonetheless insisted the concept to activate the app the morning of the murders was a spur of the second choice and never one thing he pre-planned.