A self-described tech consultant Nima Momeni was arrested in the deadly stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco.
Last week’s fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee revived a discussion about the crime in San Francisco, with several well-known individuals denouncing the death as yet another instance of escalating violence.
However, the authorities said Lee was killed by someone he knew, not a random street attacker when they announced murder charges on Thursday.
The San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott announced during a news conference that Nima Momeni had been detained on suspicion of murder. According to San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jennis, Momeni will be charged with murder in the death of Mr. Lee and is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
Mr. Scott declined to elaborate on how they connected Momeni’s action to his passing or how the individuals knew each other.
In addition to being charged with murder, Momeni was also charged with a special circumstance due to killing with a knife, said San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
According to authorities, the case of Mr. Lee’s death is still being investigated. The authorities didn’t reveal the motive behind this on Thursday. The arrest represents a turning point in the closely followed case, which some had used to forward the idea that random street crime had taken over San Francisco.
According to investigators, like the majority of homicide victims in the US, Lee knew his assailant.
Aaron Peskin, the president of the San Francisco Board, reported the detention of Nima Momeni in the Emeryville suburb.
Elon Musk received criticism from Ms. Jenkins for his tweets about Mr. Lee’s passing. After the death of Mr. Lee, Elon Musk tweeted in response to another user that violent crimes in San Francisco are horrific, and even if the attackers are arrested, they often release those culprits immediately.
Musk mentioned Jenkin’s Twitter account song with his additional comment that the city has to take more measures to imprison persistent violent offenders.
When Musk claimed that repeat violent offenders were involved, Ms. Jenkins referred to the Twitter user as careless. Ms. Jenkins said the reckless and irresponsible statements of Musk’s tweet assume incorrect news about Mr. Lee’s death.
As they distribute false information at a time when the police are attempting to solve a particularly challenging case, the tweets would also negatively impact the pursuit of justice for crime victims, said Jenkins.
On April 4 at around 2:35 am, the head of product at cryptocurrency company MobileCoin was discovered bleeding close to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Mr. Lee was brought to a hospital, where he died.
The first news source to report Momeni’s arrest was Mission Local, which claimed that police had executed a search warrant at the Emeryville location that corresponded to Expand IT, a company owned by Momeni.
According to Chris Donatiello, who lives there and claims that many people in the building are familiar with Momeni, the building has a mix of apartments and offices.
Bob Lee was the chief product officer for the cryptocurrency company MobileCoin at the time of his death. While serving as the chief technology officer of the payment startup Square, now known as Block, Mr. Lee is credited with developing the popular mobile payment service Cash App.
Momeni touts himself as an IT consultant and entrepreneur as per his LinkedIn profile. He is the owner and one of the founding members of the business called Expand IT.
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The business, which was established in 2010, collaborates with clients in healthcare, financial, and other areas.
According to Sam Singer, they met when Singer moved into his space a month ago. He works in the office right next to Momeni’s and is a member of the building board.
According to Singer and posts in the building’s private Facebook group, Momeni described himself as a kind, professional gentleman. But noticed a strange event on the evening of April 3, the day before Lee’s death.
Neighbors on Momeni’s floor were warned to stay inside when police, including the SWAT team, arrived to arrest him on Thursday morning.
Momeni worked as an IT consultant for Russell Hayns’s Coast Range Technologies in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006. According to Haynes, Momeni was a quiet, respectful employee who frequently traveled to Bay Area companies’ IT troubleshooting sites.
Momeni was accused of selling a switchblade knife and operating a vehicle while his license was revoked in Alameda County in 2011. He was given a sentence of 10 days in the county jail and three years of probation after entering a no-contest plea to the driving offense and having the knife allegations dropped.
A criminal offense of driving while intoxicated was also brought against Nima Momeni in 2004.
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