A 29-year-old lady's estranged husband traveled from Georgia to her condominium constructing in Chicago to kill her and himself in a murder-suicide in July.
In July, a 29-year-old lady’s estranged husband traveled from Georgia to her condominium constructing in Chicago to kill her and himself in a murder-suicide after she posted about their failed marriage on social media.
Now, Shazia Khan, mom of deceased TikTok star Sania Khan, is accusing her daughter’s constructing of facilitating the murder-suicide in a wrongful demise lawsuit filed earlier this week.
“Sania Khan’s story is a tragic one that ought to have been prevented. The defendants had recognized for greater than [seven] months that Sania’s estranged husband posed a big risk to her life,” Chicago lawyer Mike Gallagher, who's dealing with the case, instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release. “And regardless of this data, the defendants allowed him to stroll proper previous safety earlier than escorting him into the secured portion of the constructing, with out even asking to see his identification.”
Gallagher added that had constructing administration personnel adopted their very own insurance policies, they'd have found that Sania’s estranged husband, Raheel Ahmad, “was on a ‘no-entry’ listing for the constructing.” Additionally they would have stopped him from getting into and strolling by the constructing with out exhibiting his ID, he mentioned.
An incident report from the Chicago Police Division (CPD) states that police responded to the 200 block of East Ohio Avenue in Chicago on July 18 round 4:30 p.m., after they situated Ahmad, 36, and Sania, his estranged Pakistani-American spouse, each deceased with gunshot wounds to the top.
Police in Alpharetta, Georgia, the place Ahmad lived on the time of their deaths, requested the CPD to conduct a wellness test on the 36-year-old, who was a medical scholar, after his household apparently reported him lacking from the Atlanta space. A Georgia officer additionally alerted CPD that the pair have been “going by a divorce,” and Ahmad had traveled to Chicago “to salvage the wedding.”
“She’s very upset that Sania did all the things she probably might do in an effort to shield herself, together with eradicating [Ahmad] from the lease,” Gallagher mentioned of Sania’s mom, including that the administration and personnel who labored inside Khan’s constructing — The Grand Ohio in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood — didn't cease to test Ahmad’s ID or alert Sania that he had entered the constructing that day in July, even if Sania had alerted the constructing of the risk he posed to her.
Video obtained by Shazia’s counsel reveals Ahmad getting into the constructing on July 18 and strolling previous safety with out exhibiting his identification. He met up with a realtor — who's seen on tape exhibiting her personal ID to safety in a administration workplace — to tour residences. After two excursions, Ahmad allegedly instructed the realtor that he didn't wish to see any extra residences and instructed her that he was going to satisfy up with some mates within the constructing, at which level they departed methods.
Ahmad finally made his means as much as the twenty eighth ground, the place he apparently entered Sania’s condominium and shot each her and himself within the head.
The 36-year-old will also be seen carrying a garment bag within the footage, which Gallagher mentioned contained Sania’s wedding ceremony costume.
Ahmad did this regardless of having been beforehand banned from the constructing primarily based on prior threats he had made to Sania, in accordance with Gallagher.
The lawsuit is not only about blaming the constructing for not stopping the 29-year-old’s homicide, Gallagher mentioned. It's about administration failing to finish “their regular safety protocols by checking the ID or notifying [Sania]” that he had entered the constructing, in addition to the constructing’s alleged data that Ahmad posed a risk to one in all their residents.
Previous to the obvious murder-suicide, Khan had been posted uplifting movies on TikTok about escaping a poisonous marriage and transferring on along with her life.
“Going by a divorce as a South Asian lady feels such as you failed at life typically,” she wrote in a single video from final month. “The way in which the group labels you, the dearth of emotional help you obtain and the stress to stick with somebody as a result of ‘what's going to individuals say’ is isolating. It makes it tougher for girls to go away marriages that they shouldn’t have been in to start with.”
In one other latest put up exhibiting off a brand new tattoo of the Roman numerals for the quantity 28, Khan mentioned 28 was the yr she bought married, filed for divorce and “nearly died.” Different posts signaled a scarcity of help from her household over her life decisions.
“Sania’s homicide obtained worldwide consideration not due to the act itself, however due to the individual she was,” Gallagher mentioned. “During the last [six] months of her life, Sania took to social media to debate a topic that's taboo within the south Asian and Muslim communities. The difficulty of divorce and spousal abuse. Sania shared her story and interior energy with others in hopes that they'd discover braveness to face up for themselves.”
Shazia Khan is “crushed” about what she believes to be her daughter’s wrongful demise. “She misplaced her oldest daughter, [who] was stunning, proficient, clever, extraordinarily compassionate and had a really vibrant future,” Gallagher mentioned.
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