Cash App founder died from pierced coronary heart, post-mortem finds

SAN FRANCISCO — Cash App founder Bob Lee died throughout surgical procedure from stab wounds that pierced his coronary heart and a lung, in accordance with an post-mortem report launched Tuesday that additionally reveals he had alcohol and medicines in his system.

Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital tried for hours to shut the injuries in Lee’s coronary heart and save his life, however they declared him lifeless at 6:49 a.m. April 4, in accordance with an 18-page post-mortem report by the San Francisco Medical Examiner.

A toxicology take a look at discovered Lee, 43, had alcohol, cocaine, ketamine and allergy medicine in his system, Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Ellen Moffatt wrote.

Moffatt concluded Lee’s reason for demise was a number of stab wounds, and that the style and methodology of demise was murder by sharp harm.

Tech marketing consultant Nima Momeni, 38, was charged with homicide with a sentencing enhancement of utilizing a knife within the April 4 stabbing demise of Lee. If convicted, he faces 26 years to life in jail.

A plea listening to on Tuesday was continued till May 18 after Momeni’s protection lawyer, Paula Canny, requested for extra time.

Outside the courtroom, Canny emphasised Lee’s drug use might have led him to make dangerous choices.

“There’s a lot of drugs in Bob Lee’s system. I mean, Bob Lee’s system is like the Walgreens of recreational drugs,” Canny stated.

“What happens when people take drugs? Generally, they act like drug people, and what drug people act like is not themselves, not happy-go-lucky,” she stated. “Just kind of illusory and make bad decisions and do bad things.”

She wouldn’t say whether or not Momeni did medication with Lee, who police stated was his acquaintance.

Prosecutors say Momeni drove Lee to a secluded spot and stabbed him over a dispute associated to Momeni’s sister. They stated in courtroom paperwork that surveillance video and testimony from a pal of Lee who was with him the afternoon and night earlier than he died led investigators to Momeni.

A pal of Lee, who was not recognized, instructed investigators the 2 of them met with Momeni’s sister, Khazar Elyassnia, at an condo the place she was ingesting with one other unidentified man, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. The pal stated he and Lee left the condo and went to Lee’s resort room the place he witnessed a dialog by which Momeni was questioning Lee over whether or not his youthful sister “was doing drugs or anything inappropriate,” prosecutors stated.

The pal and Lee parted methods round 12:30 a.m. Minutes later, Lee may be seen on video surveillance coming into the high-end Millennium Tower, the place public information present Elyassnia and her husband, Dino Elyassnia, personal a unit. The video additionally reveals Lee and Momeni leaving the constructing shortly after 2 a.m. and driving off in Momeni’s BMW.

Prosecutors say that Momeni drove to a darkish and secluded spot, parked his automotive and after the 2 bought out of the automotive, attacked Lee with a kitchen knife, stabbing him thrice, together with as soon as within the coronary heart. He then sped away “and left victim to slowly die,” in accordance with a movement to detain. Police recovered a knife with a 4-inch blade on the scene.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins stated protection attorneys typically smear a murder sufferer’s character as a protection technique. “Whether or not someone has or has not done drugs – that does not give someone a license to kill him,” Jenkins stated.