The man accused of killing the tech executive Bob Lee on a secluded San Francisco street this month stabbed him three times with a kitchen knife, prosecutors said in court documents released on Friday.
The accused assailant, Nima Momeni, 38, had argued with Mr. Lee about whether anything “inappropriate” had happened between Mr. Lee, 43, and Mr. Momeni’s younger sister, prosecutors said, describing details of the police investigation in a motion to hold Mr. Momeni without bail.
During a brief court hearing on Friday morning, Mr. Momeni’s arraignment was put off until later this month. He was arrested and jailed on Thursday and has not entered a plea.
Prosecutors said that Mr. Momeni, a tech consultant and entrepreneur, stabbed Mr. Lee, who was instrumental in creating the mobile payment service Cash App, on April 4 with the four-inch blade of a kitchen knife, including once through the heart. He then threw the knife in a parking lot and raced away, leaving Mr. Lee, 43, “to slowly die,” the motion states.
The case is playing out against heated claims that law enforcement authorities have failed to protect the city’s residents adequately against crime. Although San Francisco’s murder rate is low compared with that of many other major U.S. cities, its downtown has been struggling to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic and dramatic layoffs in the tech industry.
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