Arrest made over death of Cash App founder Bob Lee
A fellow tech worker has been arrested over the death of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco.
A fellow tech worker was arrested on Thursday, US time, over the death of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, according to a local report.
Lee allegedly knew his killer, Mission Local reported.
The father of two, 43, was stabbed just after 2:30am on April 4 in the ritzy neighbourhood of Rincon Hill.
The motive for the apparent murder is unknown, The New York Post reports. The newspaper has reached out to San Francisco police for more information.
Tragic security footage, which has not been publicly released, shows the dying entrepreneur being ignored by bystanders as he begged for help following the attack.
The footage shows Mr Lee, who was a chief product officer at MobileCoin before his death, walking up to a car with its hazard lights flashing and lifting his shirt to the driver to show he was severely injured. The car drove off without helping and Mr Lee collapsed to the ground, the footage shows, according to various local outlets who had seen it.
Mr Lee, who has two young daughters, called 911 himself telling them he’d been stabbed and needed help. By the time cops arrived, he was unconscious and later succumbed to his injuries from the slashing at the hospital.
A friend of Mr Lee said that tech mogul recently moved to Miami because he felt San Francisco was “deteriorating”.
“He was in the ‘good’ part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack,” the friend, MMA fighter Jake Shields, previously tweeted.
Rick Lee penned a heartbreaking tribute to his son on Facebook Wednesday, calling him his “best friend.”
“Bob would give you the shirt off his back,” the grieving dad wrote. “He would never look down on anyone and adhered to a strict no-judgment philosophy.”
This story first appeared on The New York Post and has been republished with permission.
Originally published as Arrest made over death of Cash App founder Bob Lee
