Emeryville entrepreneur arrested in reference to stabbing demise of Money App exec Bob Lee

EMERYVILLE, Calif. – San Francisco police have arrested a tech entrepreneur in reference to the stabbing death of Cash App tech founder Bob Leebased on his former spouse.

In an interview on Thursday morning, Krista Lee confirmed that police arrested an Emeryville man in connection along with her ex-husband’s stabbing demise.

San Francisco jail information recognized the person as Nima Momeni, 38, who was booked on a murder cost. His LinkedIn account exhibits he’s a UC Berkeley graduate and the founding father of Broaden IT in Emeryville.

“This is step one towards justice,” Lee stated from her house in Miami, the place Bob Lee had moved from Mill Valley within the fall.

San Francisco police and the district lawyer are holding a information convention at 12:30 p.m., which will probably be livestreamed right here.

Mission Local first broke the information that police arrested Momeni, who additionally works in tech and knew the 43-year-old Lee.

Krista Lee stated she believes Momeni knew her husband, however she is perplexed as to the motive behind the violent assault.

Lee was killed April 4 on Predominant Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. within the densely populated Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Franciscoclose to Google’s workplace and Oracle Park, house to the San Francisco Giants.

Mission Native reported that Lee and Momeni had been driving by way of downtown San Francisco collectively in Momeni’s automobile.

Video obtained by the San Francisco Commonplace exhibits a wounded Lee holding his side as he walked as much as a driver, confirmed him his damage after which collapsed on the bottom. The motive force of the automobile drove away with out providing assist. Lee made it to a close-by house earlier than he collapsed once more.

It has not been made public whether or not the motive force knew for sure that Lee was injured. It’s also unclear whether or not the motive force took off out of concern and did not know the precise circumstances.

Krista Lee advised KTVU she was not conscious of the 2 driving collectively.

A number of police sources advised Mission Native that Lee’s stabbing on a abandoned road in downtown San Francisco was neither a theft try nor a random assault.

Efforts to succeed in Momeni members of the family weren’t instantly profitable on Thursday.

A tenant on the Besler constructing in Emeryville the place Momeni labored and lived, stated he heard a bullhorn sound about 4 a.m. however he did not know what it was on the time.

One other tenant stated that about 5 a.m., she heard police on an intercom calling the suspect out. She described Momeni as a pleasant, quiet man who saved to himself. She stated she was stunned to listen to the information about him and was curious as to what made him snap.

Sam Singer, a public relations skilled, labored subsequent to Momeni in the identical constructing.

Singer stated he was “absolute in shock. He was a really good gentleman. He appeared to be an intensive skilled, working on a regular basis.”

Momeni as soon as provided Singer IT assist if he ever wanted it, and his reside/work house was very good, adorned with a pool desk, a totally stocked kitchen and plenty of expertise tools.

Singer stated throughout the final month, there was a noise criticism within the constructing a few girl screaming his identify within the hallway who could not discover his house, however nothing got here of it.

Lee was a distinguished determine within the tech world, contributing his expertise to Android at Google, to being the primary CTO of Sq., when he additionally created Money App, MobileCoin CEO Josh Goldbard stated.

Lee’s demise additional infected debate over public security in San Francisco and its downtown, which has not but bounced again from the pandemic.

Twitter’s proprietor Elon Musk took to the social media website to publish that “violent crime in SF is horrific and even when attackers are caught, they’re typically launched instantly” and tagged the town’s district lawyer.

However Krista Lee emphasised that her ex-husband, with whom they’ve two youngsters, cherished San Francisco and moved to Florida to reside along with his father after his mother died, not as a result of he was scared to reside within the metropolis.

She stated her former husband would actually take affront to how individuals are portray San Francisco as a lawless town and blaming politicians for the crime that occurs.

She stated whereas there are lots of questions that also stay, her youngsters will now have slightly extra “peace of thoughts.”

KTVU’s Lisa Fernandez and Jorge Bustos contributed to this report.