A San Francisco jury has found technology consultant Nima Momeni guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Jurors took seven days to reach their verdict on Momeni in the April 4, 2023, death of Lee, a beloved tech mogul who was found staggering on a deserted downtown street, dripping a trail of blood and calling for help. Lee, 43, later died at a hospital.
Prosecutors argued that Momeni took Lee’s life on the 300 block of Main Street in the upscale Rincon Hill neighborhood. after learning that his drug-dealing boyfriend had plied his younger sister, Khazar, with GHB and other drugs and sexually assaulted her.
“One person called 911 and begged for help and said someone had stabbed me,” said Dane Reinstedt, assistant district attorney, adding that the other person never called police or told anyone what happened that night until the process has happened.
But lawyers alleged Lee took a multi-day drug bender of cocaine and ketamine, which left him irritable and violent, and that he attacked the suspect with a knife.
They said Momeni was forced to use his Krav Maga martial arts skills in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023, after making a ‘bad joke’ that upset Lee – and not realizing he had stabbed him.
Lee’s brother Timothy Oliver Lee said the family was pleased with the verdict CBS News Bay Area.
‘We are happy with today’s result. We are happy that Nima Momeni will no longer be on the streets and will no longer have the opportunity to harm anyone else in this world,” he said. “The verdict of murder two will lock him up for a long time.”
A conviction for second-degree murder in this case carries a prison sentence of 16 years to life.
A San Francisco jury has found technology consultant Nima Momeni (pictured) guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee