A TikTok star identified for his Scarface impressions obtained extraordinarily heated on the stand beneath cross-examination as he was requested about his alleged internet searches for “chopped our bodies” and “teen porn” earlier than the murders crime scene images have been on top of that observed.
Ali Abulaban, a TikTok star accused of killing his estranged spouse and a single other man immediately after secretly placing in a listening gadget of their residence, had a definitely confrontational time on the stand beneath cross-examination.
The social media creator — who amassed practically 950K followers mainly because of comedy skits and Scarface impressions — took the witness stand in his private protection this week, as he stands accused of murdering his spouse Ana Abulaban and great buddy Rayburn Cardenas Barron on October 21, 2021.
He faces two counts of very first-degree homicide. Prosecutors have argued the murders have been premeditated, whereas his protection workforce has claimed he was “merely out of his thoughts” and “all judgment and result in [flew] out the window” when he confronted the two more than dishonest suspicions. Each and every have been shot and killed.
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Whereas beneath cross-examination by prosecutors, Abulaban admitted his historical previous of bodily violence towards Ana. Photos of her bruised face have been verified, immediately after he struck her inside the days earlier than her homicide, in addition to textual content material messages from her saying, “I do not enjoy you.”
Per prosecutors, he was “harassing” Ana most important as significantly as her demise, with Ana telling him to go away her alone. She even threatened to get a restraining oder. Earlier this week, Abulaban talked about he was providing his spouse “house” whereas he stayed at a close-by resort the week of the murders prosecutors have argued Ana really kicked him out of their condominium immediately after studying he slept with a single other lady.
As his internet searches on his cellphone have been then addressed, his queries about discovering an escort have been verified to the court docket.
“Ana could not do the identical, suitable? It is totally for okay so that you can sleep with a single other lady, it was okay so that you can exit and get an escort for intercourse, nevertheless Ana couldn’t be with a single other man,” requested prosecutors, who questioned why he felt so slighted by her hanging out with Ray.
“My enjoy for Ana would not alter the quite truth I employed to be lonely. I employed to be quite lonely,” he talked about of the escort searches. “She was not in the residence, she was gone. I’ve desires, I regarded them up, nevertheless I by no suggests employed a single. I employed to be confused about the spot the hell I employed to be in my partnership.”
“I am contemplating Ana’s out with males, the whole time, I am assume she’s sleeping round and in no way telling me about it,” he continued. “All these months, was like basically the most complex time of my life. I employed to be on medication 24/7, I am not contemplating clearly. I employed to be not in the precise state of thoughts on this time interval.”

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Distinct internet searches confirmed him attempting up information on audio monitoring gadgets and solutions to plant listening gadgets. Abulaban has admitted to going into Ana’s condominium the morning of her demise, whereas she wasn’t residence, and trashing the spot — earlier than activating a recording app on their daughter’s iPad and hiding it close to Ana’s mattress in an attempt to catch her possessing intercourse. Just after listening to her and a individual speaking collectively on it later inside the day, he rushed to the condominium, entered the unit and killed them every.
On the stand, he nonetheless insisted the idea to activate the app the morning of the murders was a spur of the second selection and in no way a single point he pre-planned.
On October 17, days earlier than the homicide and immediately after he struck Ana inside the face immediately after finding dinner collectively, he was on top of that observed using his cellphone to seek for “chopped our bodies” and “decapitated heads.”
“It is not connected to the dinner. That is merely me after I’m once more at residence, coked out of my thoughts, reviewing troubles I have been contemplating all by way of the whole month,” he talked about, claiming he and a great buddy had been focused by a cellphone rip-off involving drug cartels. “I merely occurred to look at it, let me see if I can find out these rattling footage.”
“You realized she was not coming once more to you?” requested prosecutors, who clearly weren’t purchasing for his clarification. “Then regarded up chopped our bodies?”
“Once a lot more, it is not connected. What’s it going to do, train me solutions to chop a physique? It is bizarre, certain, that I’d search that up,” he talked about, admitting to taking a appear at numerous images of decapitated heads.
The prosecutor then requested him about alleged searches on October 18 for “teen porn,” despite the fact that no document was verified of talked about search. “What?! What did you merely say?! You are out your thoughts. Present me the teenager s–t you merely talked about!” he exclaimed upon listening to that allegation.
“You want to paint me as some sort of f–king youngster molester, present me! What you merely talked about, I’ve by no suggests observed that in discovery. You by no suggests confirmed that to my workforce. The spot did you get that?” he shouted. “Present it! Present me what you merely talked about, you are not going to breeze more than that. You are not going to colour me as a single point I am not.”
The prosecutor, nonetheless, moved on. That second will be observed inside the info package deal above.

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When it got right here time to deal with the taking images itself, the prosecutor revealed that on the day of the murders — immediately after Abulaban trashed her condominium — Ana despatched a textual content material message studying, “I have to have you out of my life, as quickly as and for all.”
“And that produced you mad, suitable?” requested the state, earlier than Abulaban talked about, “I do not even hold in thoughts her saying that to me.” The prosecutor then requested no matter if or not he “needed [Ray] useless” and that is why he “did what you in all probability did, suitable?” Abulaban’s reply: “No, I merely misplaced management.”
He on top of that insisted he “didn’t intend to hit Ray inside the head” and, when requested no matter if or not he knew “taking images Ana inside the head would kill her,” he talked about, “No.”
“I do know any person finding shot inside the head, that may possibly be deadly. Some people may possibly survive that. These generally are not suggestions that I am contemplating,” he continued. “I wasn’t even contemplating. I didn’t have management of myself on this second.”
She then introduced up Ana putting her arms up and screaming “for mercy” immediately after he shot Ray, earlier than claiming Abulaban then shouted “Respect!” at Ana earlier than taking images her. “You shot her as a outcome of she had disrespected you and was with Ray, suitable?” she requested. He vehemently denied saying that and demanded audio of the second be performed in court docket Abulaban was recording himself when he walked into the condominium.
Inside the audio (cued up above), amongst gunshots, a male voice will be heard saying a single point. “I didn’t say that s–t!” he nonetheless insisted, claiming he could not hear that precise phrase.

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The prosecutor on top of that claimed Abulaban “pushed [Ana’s] head into Ray’s lap and positioned bullets by her ft” immediately after taking images her inside the brow. He denied undertaking that as efficiently, whereas a photograph from the scene was verified to the court docket (above).
“Get the f–k out of suitable right here. I am not going to tolerate this,” he talked about, claiming DNA proof confirmed he did not have any make contact with with the our bodies.
Photos he snapped of the our bodies immediately after the taking images have been on top of that talked about, despite the fact that he talked about he could not hold in thoughts when he took them or why he did it.
The trial is ongoing.









