TikTok star charged with killing wife and her 'companion'

TikTok star Ali Nassar Abulaban, aka JinnKid popular for his ‘Skyrim In Real Life’ video series, has been charged with double homicide.

He is alleged to have killed his estranged wife, Ana Abulaban, 28, and her friend, Raburn Cadenas Baron, 29.

Police called to an apartment in New York City’s East Village found the bodies of the victims.

Ali is reported to have shot Barron three times and his wife once, at close range.

Following their divorce process, Ali believed that his wife and her friend Baron were having an affair.

He has been accused of stalking Ana Abulaban since October 18, having clandestinely bugged his 5-year old daughter’s iPad with a listening device that let him monitor activity in their apartment.

Police say the Skyrim IRL TikToker “heard his wife with another man” before he entered the East Village apartment and committed the alleged two counts of murder.

He is then said to have left the apartment, which was caught on video footage from a neighbor’s apartment, before picking up their five-year-old daughter from school while still armed. He was subsequently taken into custody.

The double murder follows allegations of domestic violence of an incident that was apparently witnessed by their young daughter.

Ali Abulaban is being held without bail and is awaiting a preliminary hearing on January 5, 2022.

Despite Abulaban pleading not guilty in his court arraignment, due to his charges and special-circumstance allegations of multiple killings, meaning more than one first-degree murder is being tried in the same trial, he could face the death penalty if found guilty.

Ali commands a following of close to a million with a collective 12.1 million likes for his video content on TikTok. He is known for his impressions and comedic skits.

Nassar’s comic videos are themed towards ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ - an open-world action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Soft-works.

JinnKid’s first series of Skyrim IRL videos garnered nearly 3.5 million views on YouTube.

The videos parody the game's notorious glitches and other strange in-game occurrences normally encountered during a Skyrim play through, such as non-player characters glitching into walls or speaking voice lines that don’t fit given scenarios.