Suspect in Bob Lee killing is Bay Area-based IT entrepreneur

San Francisco police chief William Scott (centre) speaks during a press conference with San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins (right) at San Francisco Police headquarters on April 13, 2023 in San Francisco, California. San Francisco police arrested 38 year-old tech tech entrepreneur Nima Momeni at his home in Emeryville, California in connection with the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee. Momeni was taken into custody without incident. — AFP

The man police arrested April 13 in the murder of tech leader Bob Lee was 38-year-old Nima Momeni, who ran an IT consultancy and lived in Emeryville, California, a small city east of San Francisco.

One person who knew Momeni was shocked to hear that he was suspected in the killing that shook San Francisco last week, and that prompted an outpouring of grief in the tech community and anger over crime in the city.