A TikTok star who chronicled her divorce on the social media platform has been shot to death by her ex-husband.
Sania Khan’s killer then took his own life.
Cops say that Khan, 29, and her former hubby, Raheel Ahmed, 36, were found dead in her Chicago condo early Monday in what detectives are calling a murder-suicide. Both had been shot in the head.
Khan — known as geminigirl_099 — turned to TikTok to describe the torment of being pressured to stay in the couple’s unhappy marriage. She said that pressure came from her ex-husband and her own family.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, investigators say Ahmed travelled from Georgia in another attempt to salvage their union even though their divorce was finalized in May.
https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tik2-e1658761530617.png?quality="90&strip=all&w=576 2x" height="561" loading="lazy" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/tik2-e1658761530617.png?quality=90&strip=all&w=288" width="663"/>In one, she stated: “You think you can hurt me? My family members told me if I left my husband I would let Shaytan win, that I dress like a prostitute and if I move back to my hometown they’ll kill themselves.”
She added in another post: “Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you failed at life sometimes. The way the community labels you, the lack of emotional support you receive, and the pressure to stay with someone because ‘what will people say’ is isolating.
“It makes it harder for women to leave marriages that they shouldn’t have been in, to begin with.”
But Khan, a wedding photographer, hinted that she feared for her life: “My favorite quote is, ‘Every day above ground is a good day.'”
She previously was a flight attendant before moving to Chicago in June 2021.
“She could make a friend out of anyone and would always be there for them during their moments,” one friend named Grant told the Sun-Times. “You would be hard pressed to find anyone who would say something bad about Sania because just knowing Sania added so much light to your life.”
Khan had planned to move back to her hometown of Chatanooga, Tenn.
Another friend, Gabriella Bordó, told Time magazine that Khan’s ex-husband was all-controlling of her life.
“He monitored what she wore,” Bordó said. “He was wary about who she hung out with, how she presented herself. She was leaving. They hadn’t lived together for a long time.”
Bordó added: “There was no reconciling. This man did not go there to salvage a marriage. He went there with a gun for a reason.”
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