Tech Entrepreneur Nima Momeni Charged in Bob Lee Killing

• Momeni, 38 has been charged with fatally stabbing Money App cofounder Bob Lee.
• Police advised reporters that the suspect and the sufferer knew one another.
• Momeni’s first courtroom listening to is scheduled for Friday. He has but to remark.

San Francisco police made an arrest on Thursday morning in reference to the deadly stabbing of Money App co-founder Bob Lee. 38-year outdated tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni was arrested at his dwelling shortly after 5am and charged with homicide for allegedly stabbing Lee.

In keeping with native media, the 2 males have been seen driving by downtown San Francisco in a automotive registered to the suspect within the early hours of April 4. Lee died after being stabbed twice within the chest within the metropolis’s Rincon Hill neighborhood shortly earlier than 2:30 a.m. He was 43 years outdated.

San Francisco Police Chief Invoice Scott advised reporters at a press convention on Thursday that Lee and Momeni knew one another, however didn’t share additional particulars. Momeni had a legal report, together with a cost for allegedly promoting a switchblade in 2011, which was later dismissed.

A neighbor of Momeni’s advised the San Francisco Chronicle on situation of anonymity that Momeni had come to his door on the night time of the killing, requesting alcohol. The newspaper additionally reported a disturbance at Momeni’s tackle a while earlier than 4 a.m. on April 3, through which a lady allegedly shouting Momeni’s identify knocked on neighbors’ doorways. Momeni, who was scheduled to look for his first courtroom listening to on Friday, has but to supply any remark.

Lee was a father and the previous CTO of Sq. and Cell Coin. In a press release to CNN, Cell Coin CEO Josh Goldbard stated “Bob was a dynamo, a pressure of nature. Bob was the real article. He was made for the world that’s being born proper now, he was a toddler of desires, and no matter he imagined, irrespective of how loopy, he made actual… We are going to miss you Bob. We love you.”

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