Arrest made in stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, men reportedly knew each other

San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin tells CNBC that an arrest has been made within the April 4 deadly stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

Earlier on Thursday, native San Francisco news outlet Mission Local reported that police went to Emeryville, California, with a warrant to arrest a suspect within the case. Both Mission Local and the San Francisco Chronicle have named Nima Momeni because the suspect. He is a tech entepreneur within the Bay Area, in line with his LinkedIn profile and studies.

The Chronicle, citing jail data, present that the 38-year-old Emeryville resident was booked on suspicion of homicide at 9:19 AM on Thursday. CNBC has not been in a position to affirm the id of the suspect.

According to media studies, the suspect knew Lee.

Peskin individually informed NBC Bay Area that the San Francisco Police Department arrested a person in Emeryville and that “apparently” the homicide was “not a random act,” however supplied no additional particulars. The police division is predicted to carry a press convention with extra particulars afterward Thursday.

San Francisco cops discovered Lee, 43, with stab wounds at 2:35 AM in a abandoned a part of downtown San Francisco. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening accidents and later died, police mentioned on the time.

Lee had been working because the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin. He beforehand served as chief expertise officer of Square (now referred to as Block), a monetary expertise firm co-founded by the previous Twitter chief Jack Dorsey. Lee went on to create Cash App, a cash switch service.

He was additionally an investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX enterprise in addition to different tech corporations, such because the social audio app Clubhouse, in line with his LinkedIn profile.

He was extensively praised by former colleagues, together with MobileCoin CEO Joshua Goldbard, who mentioned in a Twitter thread that Lee was a “brilliant” visionary with a “kaleidoscopic” thoughts.

— NBC Bay Area contributed reporting to this text.