Bystander ignored dying Cash App founder Bob Lee as he begged for help

Heartbreaking video has emerged of the moment dying Cash App founder Bob Lee begged a bystander for help after being stabbed.

A bystander ignored dying Cash App founder Bob Lee (pictured) as he begged for help. Picture: Twitter.

Tragic video shows dying Cash App founder Bob Lee was ignored by bystanders as he begged for help after being stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday.

Before succumbing to his injuries, the 43-year-old chief product officer of MobileCoin walked up to a parked car that had its hazard flashers on to try to get help, according to surveillance footage obtained by the San Francisco Standard.

Footage showed Lee lifted his shirt to show the driver his two stab wounds — but collapsed to the ground as the car drove off, the NY Post reports.

Lee called 911 at 2:34am and pleaded for help, yelling to dispatchers that he had been stabbed and needed to go to the hospital.

Police arrived less than six minutes later and found Lee unconscious with two stab wounds to the chest.

He was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died. Police had not announced any arrests or named any suspects in the stabbing as of Thursday morning.

A bystander ignored dying Cash App founder Bob Lee (pictured) as he begged for help. Picture: Twitter.

Bob Lee had reportedly moved back to Miami because he felt San Francisco was deteriorating. Picture: Facebook.

The brutal fatal stabbing in the city’s downtown Rincon Hill neighbourhood, a well-to-do area in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district, left a trail of blood along the sidewalk outside the building where Lee collapsed, according to the Standard.

Police have not said whether the stabbing was a random or targeted attack.

During a Police Commission meeting Wednesday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said he had “nothing to share yet.”

“We don’t want to be premature and definitely we don’t have to speculate so we are going to be thoughtful about following the evidence and we’ll put out what we’ll put out as soon as we can,” Scott said.

Lee, who was a father of two and a longtime Bay Area resident, had recently moved back to Miami because he felt San Francisco was “deteriorating,” his friend Jake Shields said.

Shields revealed Lee was attacked while he was walking.

“He was in the ‘good’ part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack,” Shields tweeted.

Police arrived six minutes after Bob Lee called 911. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died. Picture: Facebook.

His death sparked outrage within the tech industry and prompted giants like Elon Musk to express concern over public safety in the city.

“Many people I know have been severely assaulted,” Musk tweeted. “Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.”

Musk also asked San Francisco District lawyer Brooke Jenkins if the city was “taking stronger action to incarcerate repeat offenders.”

Lee had served as the chief product officer of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency company MobileCoin since November 2021.

This article originally appeared in the NY Post and was republished with permission.

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