The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) has made an arrest in the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Lee, 43, was stabbed to death last Tuesday the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco at 2:30 am.
According to Mission Local, police traveled to Emeryville to arrest 38-year-old Nima Momeni, founder of Expand IT.
The motive for the fatal stabbing is still not known.
Momeni was taken into custody and transported to San Francisco county jail, where he was booked on one charge of murder.
SFPD Chief, William Scott, confirmed that Lee and Momeni knew each other but said he could not provide further details on the evidence at this time.
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According to the reports, Nima Momeni and Bob Lee were seen arguing in a car before Lee was stabbed.
From Mission Local:
We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni. The name and Emeryville address SFPD officers traveled to correspond with this man, the owner of a company called Expand IT.
Multiple police sources have described the predawn knifing that last week left the 43-year-old Lee dead in a deserted section of downtown San Francisco as neither a robbery attempt nor a random attack.
Rather, Lee and Momeni were portrayed by police as being familiar with one another. In the wee hours of April 4, they were purportedly driving together through downtown San Francisco in a car registered to the suspect.
Some manner of confrontation allegedly commenced while both men were in the vehicle, and potentially continued after Lee exited the car. Police allege that Momeni stabbed Lee multiple times with a knife that was recovered not far from the spot on the 300 block of Main Street to which officers initially responded.
This scenario would explain in part why Lee was walking through a portion of Main Street in which there is little to no foot traffic at 2:30 a.m. That was one of several incongruous circumstances surrounding Lee’s violent death which law-enforcement sources from the get-go felt made it far from a straightforward or random crime.
