Arrest made in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee: report
A suspect was reportedly arrested in the brutal killing of the tech titan in San Francisco earlier this month.
As part of the investigation that led to the arrest of 38-year-old IT entrepreneur Nima Momeni in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, San Francisco police served three search warrants, according to Chief Bill Scott.
One came at a luxury downtown high-rise where Momeni's sister and her plastic surgeon husband own a condo, according to local reporting.
One was served at Momeni's home in Emeryville, across the Bay Bridge, Scott said Thursday, and one more was served elsewhere in San Francisco.
Records show the sister and her husband purchased a $2.7 million condo in the Millennium building in 2016.
Nima Momeni, left, is jailed in San Francisco on a murder charge in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee. San Francisco police say the two knew each other. (Nima Momeni/LinkedIn, Bob Lee/Facebook)
Police served one of the warrants there Thursday, the San Francisco Standard reported, not far from Lee's hotel and where police found him with stab wounds in Rincon Hill on April 4.
Attempts to reach the couple were unsuccessful.
When asked about the location of the warrants, city police doubled down on Chief Scott's statement Thursday that authorities were limited in what they could release publicly, given the active investigation.
The sister of Bob Lee murder suspect Nima Momeni, Khazar Momeni, right, and her husband, Dr. Dino Elyassnia, own a condo in the luxury San Francisco building where local reports say police served a search warrant in connection with the murder investigation. (Bob Lee/Instagram, Dr. Dino Elyassnia/Instagram)
"We cannot confirm that information," a spokesperson said Friday. "We do not have any further updates or details."
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Cash App founder and tech exec Bob Lee, 43, was a father of two. He had recently moved from San Francisco to Miami but suffered fatal stab wounds on April 4, 2023, on a return to the California city. (Bob Lee/Facebook)
Momeni was arrested in Emeryville, where he lived and had an office for his outsourcing firm, Expand-IT, according to police.
A former employee tells Fox News Digital that Momeni was "the cool guy at times" but could also be "wild and erratic."
Jake Shields, the professional mixed martial artist and a friend of Lee's who has raised concerns about public safety in the city, told Fox News Digital that he recognized Momeni and his sister from the same social scene but didn't know much about them.
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Police arrested Momeni early Thursday on charges of first-degree murder with the special allegation that he used a knife in the crime.
He was due back in court Friday.
Bob Lee poses in front of a light display shaped like a heart in a photo he posted to Facebook. Lee was stabbed to death on April 4, 2023, according to San Francisco police. (Bob Lee/Facebook)
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she would ask the court that Momeni be held without bail.
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Lee, who had lived in San Francisco for about two decades before relocating to Miami, will be laid to rest in his hometown of St. Louis, Fox News Digital has learned.
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