'I Just Snapped': TikToker Learns Fate After Murdering Estranged Wife and Man He Suspected She Was Dating

Mar. 15, 2025

Ali and Ana Marie Abulaban.Photo: facebook

Thefamous TikTokerconvictedofbrutally killing his wifeand the man he believed she was dating will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

A California judge handed down the sentence Sept. 6, following Ali Abulaban’s double first-degree murder conviction in May.

The judge sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole plus another 50 years behind bars for gun enhancement charges, Emily Cox of the San Diego County Superior Court confirms to PEOPLE.

Calling Abulaban “a very selfish person,” Fraser noted that the TikToker had not shown remorse: “It’s chilling,” he said.

Ali was already estranged from his wife, Ana Marie Abulaban, when, listening in on her private conversations through alistening device he had secretly installedon their 5-year-old daughter’s iPad, he overheard the voice of another man in the couple’s home in October 2021.

Bursting into their San Diego apartment, he shot the man — Rayburn Barron, 29 — three times,then turned the gun on his wife, shooting her in the head.

Ana Marie Abulaban (left) and Rayburn Barron (right).gofundme

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Hours earlier, Ana had texted Ali telling him under no uncertain terms: “I want you out of my life,” NBC San Diego later reported from the courtroom.

After shooting his wife, Alipromptly called his mother, confessing to the murders, perCBS 8.

Abulaban confessed again while on the stand.

“My gun was in my hand and next thing I’m shooting,” he added.

It wasnot the first timethe TikTok star – made famous for his comedic impersonations of characters like Scarface and Skyrim – had been violent with his wife, Alireportedlytestified. (On the stand he admitted to drug use and to previously punching Ana.)

The tumultuous relationship was no secret.

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He kept careful documentation of the couple’s turmoil in personal videos– some of them shared with his nearly 1 million TikTok followers, who knew his beautiful wife from cameo appearances in his content.

In one such livestream featured in Peacock’s original documentaryTikTok Star Murders, Abulaban talks into his phone camera, while his wife sits quietly on the couch.

“Don’t get married guys, I threw my whole life away for her,” he says.

Ana and Ali Abulaban.Facebook

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Calling the shooting a “senseless tragedy,” and a “devastating loss,” a relative, Ana Guajardo, wrote on the GoFundMe page that her murder had “left a crater of sorrow in not only our family but among her friends and colleagues as well.”

“Losing a loved one is never easy,” Guajardo added. “Losing a daughter, a sister, a mother in such a violent manner is unfathomable.”

He added: “He was a loyal friend who you could always count on to be there in a time of need.”

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source: people.com