A man traveled more than 700 miles to Chicago to go to his ex-wife’s home, where he fatally shot her before killing himself.
The tragic incident happened after she spoke about their relationship problems on TikTok, authorities say.
Sania Khan, 29, and her ex-husband, Raheel Ahmad, 36, were found with gunshot wounds to the head in her condo last week, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The pair tied the knot but divorced in less than a year. Ahmad of Alpharetta, Georgia, traveled to Illinois last week and killed Khan.
Khan, a Pakistani American photographer, often discussed the challenges she faced when seeking a split with Ahmad, the New York Post reported.
“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.”
She added that her family exerted pressure on her to keep the marriage going — with some threatening suicide if she refused.
Police responded to Khan’s apartment after Ahmad’s family contacted authorities to report him missing and expressed their concern for his welfare.
After they knocked on the woman’s door, officers reportedly heard a gunshot and an audible groan. After going inside, they discovered Khan dead and Ahmad suffering from a mortal gunshot wound.
Sources told Time magazine that Ahmad was a controlling presence in Khan’s life and placed an extreme amount of scrutiny on her.
“He monitored what she wore,” Gabriella Bordo told the outlet. “He was wary about who she hung out with, how she presented herself.”
Bordo also said that Ahmad’s motive in visiting Khan was clear.
“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.”
Others claimed Khan had long considered getting a restraining order against him but never did.
