San Francisco Police have arrested a tech executive, Nima Momeni, in connection to the murder of 43-year-old Cash App founder Bob Lee.
This was made known by the San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, during a news conference on Thursday, 13 April.
Scott described Momeni as a 38-year-old man from Emeryville, California.
Scott said Momeni and Lee knew one another, but he didn’t provide further details about their connection.
Reports have it that Momeni appears to be the owner of an Emeryville, California-based company called Expand IT, which, according to its website, provides services like technical support.
Momeni was taken into custody without incident, according to Scott, and taken to the San Francisco County jail where he was booked on one charge of murder.
Cash App founder, Bob Lee was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco early in the morning of April 4th.
The moments following the stabbing attack were captured on surveillance video and in a 911 call to authorities, according to a local Bay Area news portal.
The surveillance footage shows Lee walking alone on Main Street, “gripping his side with one hand and his cellphone in the other, leaving a trail of blood behind him.”
Lee was the former chief technology officer of Square who helped launch Cash App.
He later joined MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payments startup, in 2021 as its chief product officer.
Josh Goldbard, the CEO MobileCoin, previously told CNN: “Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article. He was made for the world that is being born right now, he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy, he made real.”
Earlier Thursday, San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Matt Dorsey expressed his gratitude to the police department’s homicide detail for “their tireless work to bring Bob Lee’s killer to justice and for their arrest of a suspect this morning.”
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Thursday, applauded the efforts of the SFPD.
“While in some cases we do immediately have as suspect, that was not the situation here,” she said. “Mr. Lee’s killer has been identified, arrested, and now will be brought to justice.”
“He positively affected millions of people throughout his life. He had an overarching need to make technology accessible, and to help out everyone,” Bob Lee’s brother Timothy Oliver Lee said in a statement Thursday. “Bob’s dream was to make technology free and available.”
“Every day around the world, people interact with technology that Bob helped create. Bob will live on through these interactions and his dreams of improving all of our lives.”
Timothy Oliver Lee’s statement continued. “As a family, we’re very thankful to the hard working Detectives at the SFPD for bringing his killer to justice.”
