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Police arrested chap tech enforcement Nima Momeni connected suspicion of fatally stabbing Cash App Founder Bob Lee. According to authorities, the 2 men knew each different earlier Lee’s execution connected April 4.
Cash App Founder Bob Lee Dead astatine 43 After Being Stabbed
San Francisco constabulary person arrested a suspect in transportation with the April 4 killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Fellow tech enforcement Nima Momeni, 38, was brought into custody April 13 connected suspicion of murder, San Francisco Sheriff's Department records show. He is suspected of fatally stabbing Lee, 43, who helium reportedly knew, in the city in the aboriginal hours of April 4.
According to NBC Bay Area, San Francisco constabulary Chief Bill Scott said astatine a quality briefing that the suspect—the proprietor of the information and exertion supplier Expand IT—and Lee knew each other but Scott declined to springiness further details.
Momeni is scheduled to beryllium arraigned connected Friday, April 14, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said, according to NBC Bay Area. The outlet besides reported that prosecutors program to ask a justice to hold the fishy without bail.
Following the arrest, San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey tweeted his appreciation to constabulary moving the case.
"I'm grateful to @SFPD's Homicide Detail and each the officers from @SFPDSouthern and elsewhere for their tireless enactment to bring Bob Lee's slayer to justness and for their apprehension of a fishy this morning," helium wrote April 13. "Obviously, thing tin undo this senseless crime, and we reiterate our condolences to Mr. Lee's household members, friends and colleagues. But I anticipation today's apprehension tin statesman a process of healing and closure for each those touched by this tragedy."
Earlier this month, offers responded to an aboriginal to a study of a stabbing. Arriving to the country earlier 3 a.m., they recovered a wounded man, who was treated earlier being transported to a hospital, wherever helium died from life-threatening injuries.
After it was confirmed Lee—who is survived by his woman and their 2 kids—was the victim, his chap tech entrepreneurs paid tribute to their colleague.
"Bob was a dynamo, a unit of nature," Josh Goldbard, CEO of MobileCoin, said astatine the time. "Bob was the genuine article… He was a idiosyncratic who understood the satellite successful ways I don't adjacent recognize myself. He was made for the satellite that is being calved close now. Bob was a kid of dreams, and immoderate helium imagined, nary substance however crazy, helium made real. Bob was made for the caller world."
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