Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed within the coronary heart and lung, autopsy finds

Cash App founder Bob Lee died throughout surgical procedure for stab wounds that pierced his coronary heart and a lung.

Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital tried for hours to shut the injuries in Mr Lee’s coronary heart and save his life, based on an 18-page autopsy report launched on Tuesday.

But regardless of their efforts, the 43-year-old Cash App founder was pronounced lifeless at 6.49am on 4 April.

A toxicology take a look at additionally discovered he had alcohol, cocaine, ketamine and allergy remedy in his system.

But medical doctors concluded Mr Lee’s explanation for demise was resulting from a number of stab wounds, with the way and methodology of demise being a murder by sharp damage.

Tech guide Nima Momeni, 38, has been charged along with his homicide.

Mr Lee and Momeni knew one another and had been apparently seen in a automobile collectively shortly earlier than the stabbing.

If Momeni is convicted, he might face 26 years in jail.

Momeni’s plea listening to has been delayed till 18 May after his defence lawyer requested for extra time.

‘What occurs when folks take medication’

Momeni has been accused by prosecutors of allegedly driving Mr Lee to a secluded spot in San Francisco and stabbing him over a dispute associated to the suspect’s sister.

Dr Kendall Von Crowns, the chief health worker in Tarrant County, Texas, stated the autopsy confirmed the quantity of alcohol in Mr Lee’s system was solely equal to 1 beer.

The traces of ketamine may be linked to anaesthetic in a hospital, Dr Von Crowns added.

But Momeni’s defence urged the autopsy’s findings had been vital.

Outside the courtroom, Momeni’s lawyer Paula Canny stated: “There’s a lot of drugs in Bob Lee’s system.

“What occurs when folks take medication? Generally, they act like drug folks, and what drug folks act like shouldn’t be themselves, not happy-go-lucky.”

“Just form of illusory and make dangerous selections and do dangerous issues,” she added.

What occurred and what do the courtroom paperwork say?

In courtroom paperwork, it was revealed that CCTV footage and testimony from Mr Lee’s good friend – who was with him the afternoon and night earlier than he died – led investigators to Momeni.

The good friend advised police the 2 of them met with Momeni’s sister, Khazar Elyassnia, at an residence the place she was consuming with one other unidentified man, based on the paperwork.

The good friend stated he and Mr Lee left the residence and went to Mr Lee’s resort room.

Prosecutors say he witnessed a dialog during which Momeni was questioning the sufferer over whether or not his youthful sister “was doing drugs or anything inappropriate”.

After the good friend and Mr Lee parted methods at round 12.30am, on CCTV footage the Cash App founder is seen coming into the high-end Millennium Tower, the place public information present Elyassnia and her husband, Dino Elyassnia, personal a unit.

Mr Lee and Momeni then left the constructing shortly after 2am and drove away within the suspect’s automobile.

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Prosecutors allege Momeni drove to a darkish and secluded spot, parked his automobile and after the 2 bought out of the automobile, attacked Lee with a kitchen knife, stabbing him thrice, together with as soon as within the coronary heart.

The demise of Mr Lee shocked the tech business, with associates and former colleagues mourning a person they described as sensible, gregarious and a doting father to his two youngsters.

Mr Lee was recognized for creating the broadly used cellular fee service Cash App whereas working as chief expertise officer of the fee firm Square, now often known as Block.