In line with the information outlet Mission Native, the San Francisco Police Division (SFPD) arrested a suspect linked to the dying of Bob Lee (43), the creator of the crypto platform Money App. Authorities arrested expertise supervisor Nima Momeni (38) in an operation performed in Emeryville.
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In line with the report, Lee is claimed to have identified Momeni. Each San Francisco tech executives Lee have been linked to a automobile owned by Momeni on the morning of the assault that led to his dying.
As Bitcoinist reported on April 4, the Money App creator was stabbed and died of his accidents. His physique was found within the 400 block of Important Avenue within the SoMa Bay neighborhood, a area reportedly low-traffic and principally abandoned.
The police discovered no traces of a theft and didn’t imagine that this was a part of a “random assault”. These clues led them to Momeni. The suspect’s LinkedIn profile describes him as an IT marketing consultant and contractor. Momeni has been within the expertise, monetary, healthcare and start-up sectors since 2005.
Since 2010, the chief expertise officer has owned Increase IT, an organization devoted to “delivering stable, dependable and environment friendly expertise options.” Earlier than that, Momeni was a marketing consultant in Diablo IT and labored with different firms.
One in all Momeni’s neighbors, Sam Singer, described him as “heat and welcoming.” Matt Dorsey, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, drained the next about as we speak’s arrest:
I’m grateful to the SFPD Murder Squad and all of the officers from SFPD Southern and elsewhere for his or her tireless work in bringing Bob Lee’s killer to justice and for the arrest of a suspect this morning. (…) nothing can undo this mindless crime and we lengthen our condolences to Mr. Lee’s relations, pals and colleagues. However I hope as we speak’s arrest can start a strategy of therapeutic and closure for all these affected by this tragedy.
Bob Lee’s homicide politicized by the media?
Mission Native claims Bob Lee’s homicide was “politicized” by the US media and others. Some imagine San Francisco has turn out to be a violent metropolis “inundated with crime and descending into additional chaos.”
However because the chart under exhibits, violent crime within the metropolis is close to historic lows and decrease than different U.S. cities.
Lawyer and crypto advocate Collins Belton drained the next about this case and the arrest of the Money App creator’s potential killer:
if true, glad they bought this man. Places a fairly dangerous mild on many in SV (Silicon Valley) who’re making an attempt to politicize this man’s dying. (…) as somebody who has lived in SF, I’ve at all times identified that a lot of the narrative is exaggerated. There are legit points, however after I see folks evaluating the violence in SF (San Francisco) to the likes of Mogadishu, it is too far.
