By skyforbes 
The bright lights of social media fame often cast the darkest shadows. On October 21, 2021, those shadows consumed a luxury high-rise apartment in San Diego. The crisp afternoon was shattered by six gunshots that transformed a viral content creator into a convicted murderer, leaving two people dead and a community questioning how the pursuit of online adoration could spiral into such unthinkable violence. This is the true crime story of Ali Abulaban, a man whose digital persona swallowed his humanity whole.
Known online as JinnKid, Ali Abulaban had cultivated nearly one million followers with his uncanny impressions, most notably of Tony Montana from Scarface. His videos, showcasing his transformation into the violent, paranoid antihero, garnered millions of views. His audience, however, didn’t realize how closely art was mirroring life. The man behind the camera was becoming the character he portrayed — jealous, controlling, and ultimately, deadly.
From Online Fame to a Violent Timeline
The story begins not in the digital realm, but in the humid military quarters of Okinawa, Japan, in 2014. It was there that Ali Abulaban, then a 22-year-old U.S. Air Force police officer, met Ana Marie, a vibrant 21-year-old. Their whirlwind romance, however, contained the seeds of tragedy. The first documented warning sign came in 2015 when an intoxicated Ali was involved in a violent altercation with Ana outside a bar where she worked. The incident resulted in his arrest and an…