Officers went to Sania Khan’s apartment at about 4:30 p.m. that day after they received a call for a welfare check. When they arrived, they heard the sound of a gunshot and a man groaning, theChicago Tribunereported, citing a police report.
Ahmad was transported to Northwestern Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The Cook County Coroner confirmed the deaths of Khan and Ahmad to PEOPLE.
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Ahmad had traveled from his home in Georgia to Chicago, theSun-Timesreported. His family had reported him missing, theTribunereported.
According to theChicago Sun-Times, citing the police report, Ahmad was distraught and went to Chicago to “to salvage the marriage.”
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Khan was a professional photographer who moved to Chicago from Chattanooga in June 2021, according to herwebsite.
“I used to love travel so much that I was a flight attendant,” she wrote. “My favorite layover was always Chicago and who would have known 2 years later I would have moved there?”
Khan also posted about her marital and personal struggles onTikTok.
In one TikTok post, she wrote, “It’s painful to walk away from someone you once loved. But it’s even more painful to love someone who is careless with your heart.”
In another post, she wrote: “Going through a divorce as a South Asian Woman feels like you failed at life sometimes,” she wrote. “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 marriage that they shouldn’t have been in to begin with.”
Two of her friends told theSun-Timesthat Khan and Ahmad divorced in May.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for funeral expenses.
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source: people.com
