3 hours ago
1
Nima Momeni, an IT advisor who was arrested and charged with the April 2023 execution of Cash App laminitis Bob Lee, has been recovered blameworthy of second-degree murder.
Cash App Founder Bob Lee Dead astatine 43 After Being Stabbed
There is simply a large update successful the lawsuit of the fatal stabbing of tech enforcement Bob Lee.
Nima Momeni, who was arrested and charged with the April 2023 execution of the Cash App founder, was acquitted of first-degree execution successful the case, but convicted of second-degree execution Dec. 17, per NBC News.
Momeni, who himself worked successful tech arsenic an IT consultant, present faces 16 years to beingness successful prison, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins confirmed to reporters pursuing the case’s conclusion.
After the jury’s unanimous blameworthy verdict, Bob Lee’s member Tim Lee spoke to reporters astir his family’s relief.
“We’re blessed that Nima Momeni volition not beryllium connected the streets,” helium said. “He nary longer has the accidental to harm anybody other successful this world. We deliberation justness was done present today.”
Momeni’s defence lawyer Tony Brass, however, disagreed with the jury’s findings and pledged to proceed warring for his client.
"This is simply a precise achy time and this is not the extremity of the story," Brass told reporters, per NBC Bay Area. "We were amazed this wasn't a lesser verdict and we mean to spot what we tin bash to proceed to fight."
Prosecutors successful the lawsuit alleged that Momeni had driven Lee, who was friends with Momeni’s sister Khazar Momeni, to a secluded country successful downtown San Francisco earlier fatally stabbing him 3 times, including erstwhile successful the heart, implicit an statement the brace had astir his sister.
Khazar Momeni aboriginal testified successful tribunal that she had told her member she whitethorn person been sexually assaulted astatine the flat of 1 of Lee’s friends aft taking the depressant cause GHB, according to NBC News.
Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool
In court, Momeni said helium acted successful aforesaid defence aft Lee pulled retired a weapon and the brace began a conflict implicit the weapon. Momeni besides claimed that Lee had walked distant aft the conflict and was unaware that Lee had been stabbed.
The execution lawsuit rapidly made nationalist headlines successful April 2023 aft Elon Musk shared a station to X (formerly Twitter, which helium owns) calling retired San Francisco’s instrumentality enforcement to request they trim crime.
“Violent transgression successful SF is horrific,” helium wrote connected X, “and adjacent if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.”
After Momeni’s conviction, the territory lawyer assured the metropolis that the blameworthy verdict is impervious of the city’s dedication to justice.
“Today proved, erstwhile again, that we are a metropolis committed to accountability,” Jenkins told reporters, “we are a metropolis committed to nationalist information and that erstwhile thing atrocious happens, which we cant ever control, that instrumentality enforcement astatine each level volition respond to marque definite that determination is justness and accountability successful each and each situation.”
(E!, NBC News and NBC Bay Area are each portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
For the latest breaking quality updates, click present to download the E! News App
