Global Courant 2023-04-14 00:26:40
Bob Lee, the chief product officer at MobileCoin, who was killed on April 4, 2023.
Source: MobileCoin
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin tells CNBC an arrest has been made in the April 4 fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Earlier Thursday, local news outlet in San Francisco Mission Local reported that police went to Emeryville, California, with a warrant to arrest a suspect in the case. Both Mission Local and the San Francisco Chronicle have named Nima Momeni as a suspect. According to his LinkedIn profile and reports, he is a tech entrepreneur based in the Bay Area.
According to prison records, Momeni, 38, was booked at 9:19 a.m. on Thursday on suspicion of murder.
According to media reports, the suspect knew Lee.
Peskin separately told NBC Bay Area that San Francisco police had arrested a person in Emeryville, a suburb of the city, and that “apparently” the murder was “not a random act,” but gave no further details. Police are expected to hold a press conference with more details later Thursday.
Police officers in San Francisco found Lee, 43, with stab wounds at 2:35 a.m. in a deserted area of downtown San Francisco. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died, police said at the time.
Lee worked as chief product officer for the cryptocurrency company MobileCoin. He was previously Chief Technology Officer of Square (now known as Block), a financial technology company co-founded by former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey. Lee went on to create Cash App, a money transfer service.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he was also an investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture as well as other technology companies such as the social audio app Clubhouse.
He was widely praised by former colleagues, including MobileCoin CEO Joshua Goldbard, who said in a Twitter thread that Lee was a “brilliant” visionary with a “kaleidoscopic” mind.
– NBC Bay Area contributed reporting to this article.
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