Man kills ex-wife and himself after she talked about their marriage on TikTok

A man traveled more than 700 miles to kill his ex-wife and then shoot himself after she posted about their relationship troubles and divorce on TikTok.

Sania Khan, 29, and Raheel Ahman, 36, were found dead from gunshot wounds in the woman’s home in Chicago on Monday at around 4:30 p.m, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The couple had been married for less than a year, finalizing their divorce in May of this year.

Khan, a Pakistani American photographer, would frequently post about the troubles she had with her relationship with Ahmad. In particular, she talked about the pressures she felt from her family to stay married despite her relationship not working out. Some family members allegedly even threatened to commit suicide if she went through with her divorce.

“Going through a divorce as a South Asian woman feels like you failed at life sometimes,” she wrote in one post. “The way the community labels you, the lack of support you receive, and the pressure to stay with someone because ‘what will people say’ makes it harder for women to leave marriages that they shouldn’t have been in to begin with.”

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Police visited Khan’s apartment after Ahmad’s family reported him missing because they had not heard from him. When the police knocked on her door, they heard a gunshot and a groan. Inside, they found Khan dead and Ahmad alive but with a deadly gunshot wound.

He was holding a 9mm Glock handgun and had left a suicide note nearby. Ahmad was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

One of Khan’s close friends said that Ahmad was a controlling presence in her life, which in part drove her to seek a divorce. Khan had even considered getting a restraining order against her ex-husband but never filed it.

“He monitored what she wore,” Gabriella Bordo told Time Magazine. “He was wary about who she hung out with, how she presented herself.”

“There was no reconciling,” Bordo said. “This man did not go there to salvage a marriage. He went there with a gun for a reason.”