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Footage Shows the Moment Cops Nabbed Cash App Founder Bob Lee’s Alleged Killer

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bob-lee-murder-san-francisco-police-reportedly-arrest-suspect-in-cash-app-founders-death

Heavily armed police descended on a converted warehouse in the Bay Area before dawn on Thursday and arrested an IT entrepreneur in connection with the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, who was attacked in the early hours of April 4. Lee’s ex-wife Krista Lee identified the suspect as Nima Momeni, calling him a “soulless piece of shit” in a text message to The Daily Beast. Momeni was booked on a murder charge just after 9 a.m., according to police records. A neighbor at an address tied to Momeni in Emeryville, near Oakland, told The Daily Beast that Momeni was taken into custody early Thursday. The neighbor said he woke up to the sound of loud banging at around 5 a.m. and heard officers repeatedly declare, “Open the door. Come out, come out with your hands up.” “I poked my head out there were bunch of armed guys, three or four armed guys at the end of the corridor. And then they [said], ‘Get back into your room,’” he said. The neighbor also watched officers search a truck outside the building. The neighbor said he met Momeni after Momeni held the door open for him when he first moved to the building, adding that they’ve “been good friends” ever since.

He described Momeni, who was originally from Iran and ran his own IT business, as “super sweet,” though Momeni moonlighted as a DJ and “pissed off all the neighbors playing loud music at all hours of the night” and hosting parties.

The neighbor said Momeni “seemed really unsettled” last week, and that he had recently been acting strangely. Just three or four days ago, Momeni allegedly approached the neighbor and asked him if he wanted to travel to Colombia. Two days ago, he randomly tried to gift the neighbor an “amazing Eames chair.” According to the neighbor, Momeni indicated that he was expecting a visit from the police, though he cast it as related to a “conflict with some girl.” The neighbor said he did not know Lee, and speculated that Momeni may have encountered him at a party. He added that he was not altogether surprised that Momeni has been accused of a grisly crime, since he’s a “tough guy, training all the time, super into weapons.” Momeni had a few guns and knives lying around at his bachelor-pad apartment, the neighbor claimed.

Momeni’s arrest was first reported by Mission Local, who said Momeni was the owner of a small Bay Area IT business called Expand IT and may have known Lee. The pair were in a car together on April 4 when a fight broke out, ending with Lee’s stabbing, the outlet said, adding that police recovered a knife after the slaying. Lee, 43, who was the chief product officer of cryptocurrency company MobileCoin at the time of his death, had recently moved to Miami but was back in the Bay Area for a brief visit when he was stabbed at about 2:35 a.m. in a downtown area studded with other tech offices and million-dollar condos. His death spurred an outpouring of grief from other tech founders and stoked debate about crime in the city. Many pointed to Lee's death as proof that crime had grown out of control, a claim that would be undermined if the killing was not actually a random attack. Jake Shields, a former UFC fighter and friend of Lee, told The Daily Beast that he was “thankful there’s been an arrest made” but was surprised Lee may have known his killer. “I’ve never even seen Bob in any kinds [of] disgruntlement… so shocking to me,” he said. Krista Lee described the arrest to local network KTVU as “the first step toward justice,” later adding to The Daily Beast that she was “still getting information from the SFPD” and a press conference would be held later on Thursday.