Mr Li, 43, was stabbed to death on April 4
Bob Lee, founder of Cash App and chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally attacked on April 4 in San Francisco. According to an autopsy report from the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office, the technical executive suffered stab wounds that pierced his heart and lungs, CNN informed of.
Mr. Lee, 43, was found stabbed to death in the early hours of April 4 in the Rincon Hill neighborhood.
The postmortem report said Mr Lee had cocaine, ketamine and alcohol in his system at the time of the stabbing, but did not point to the substances as factors in his death.
A team of doctors at San Francisco General Hospital tried to save Lee by dressing his wounds for hours, but he was pronounced dead at 6:49 a.m. on April 4. Doctors tried to close two wounds in Lee’s heart and another wound in his left lung. ,
Pathologist Dr. Ellen G. Moffett performed an autopsy on 5 and 6 April and ultimately ruled Lee’s death a homicide, caused by multiple stab wounds, new york post informed of.
Lee’s associate in the tech industry, Nima Momeni, 38, has been charged with murder for Lee’s death. Momeni was due to appear in a San Francisco court on Tuesday afternoon, but his appearance was rescheduled for May 18. CNN said the report.
Police said Mr. Lee and Mr. Momeni knew each other and had been in the vehicle shortly before the incident.
Momeni, the founder of Bay Area software company Expand IT, appeared briefly in a San Francisco courtroom on Friday, where a judge postponed his appearance until April 25. Momeni was ordered held without bail until reuters informed of.
San Francisco prosecutors, who called the murder “premeditated and deliberate” in court papers filed for the hearing, wrote that a close friend of Lee’s, identified only as “Witness 1”, had killed Momeni, the founder of Cash App. And described Momeni’s time spent with the little one. sister the day before the murder
Witness 1 told investigators that Momeni questioned Lee, 43, that afternoon whether her sister was “doing drugs or anything inappropriate,” according to the documents. The friend said that Lee assured him that no such thing had happened.
Investigators who accessed Lee’s phone after his death discovered a FaceTime call between him and Momeni’s sister, who was not identified by name in the court papers.
He also received a text message from the sister that read: “Just wanted to make sure you’re doing okay because I know Nima has a crush on you and thank you for being such a classy guy who Handles it with the class Love You Selfish Prick.”
Witness 1 stated that it was not clear to him whether Lee had formed a close relationship with Momeni’s sister, who is married but whose relationship with her husband was described as “under threat”.
Both the sister and her husband attended the hearing in Momeni’s court on Friday.
Surveillance camera footage shows Momeni arriving at his sister’s apartment at 8:31 p.m. on April 3, court documents said, followed by Lee about four hours later. Cameras captured the two men leaving the apartment about 30 minutes before the murder.
In camera footage the two men can be seen driving to a remote area where prosecutors believe the stabbing took place.
Block Inc-owned (SQ.N) Cash App allows users to transfer money through a mobile application, which the company touts as an alternative to traditional banking services.
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