Suspect arrested in Bob Lee’s murder
Apparently the police must have had some evidence all along in the Bob Lee murder. My guess would be that it’s from video surveillance cameras in the neighborhood, plus perhaps witnesses who may have seen Lee with the accused earlier in the evening. Here’s the story as we have learned it so far:
Heavily armed police descended on a converted warehouse in the Bay Area before dawn on Thursday and arrested an IT entrepreneur in connection with the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee, who was attacked in the early hours of April 4.
Lee’s ex-wife Krista Lee identified the suspect as Nima Momeni, calling him a “soulless piece of shit” in a text message to The Daily Beast.
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott later confirmed Momeni, 38, was booked on a murder charge.
There’s no indication that Krista Lee knew Momeni, however.
The article goes on to say that neighbors had found Momeni to be a friendly person. He seems to have had enough money to have lived in a fairly upscale place, too.
More:
The neighbor said he met Momeni after Momeni held the door open for him when he first moved to the building, adding that they’ve “been good friends” ever since. He described Momeni, who was originally from Iran and ran his own IT business, as “super sweet,” though Momeni moonlighted as a DJ and “pissed off all the neighbors playing loud music at all hours of the night” and hosting parties.
The neighbor said Momeni “seemed really unsettled” last week, and that he had recently been acting strangely. Just three or four days ago, Momeni allegedly approached the neighbor and asked him if he wanted to travel to Colombia. Two days ago, he randomly tried to gift the neighbor an “amazing Eames chair.”
That strange behavior would have been after Lee’s murder.
According to the neighbor, Momeni indicated that he was expecting a visit from the police, though he cast it as related to a “conflict with some girl.”
The neighbor said he did not know Lee, and speculated that Momeni may have encountered him at a party. He added that he was not altogether surprised that Momeni has been accused of a grisly crime, since he’s a “tough guy, training all the time, super into weapons.” Momeni had a few guns and knives lying around at his bachelor-pad apartment, the neighbor claimed.
Guns just “lying around”?
Momeni also had a record of arrests for two misdemeanors, one knife-related:
In 2011, Momeni was charged in Alameda County with allegedly selling a switchblade (a misdemeanor crime in California) and for driving with a suspended license, the Chronicle reported—he pleaded no contest to the license charge while the switchblade charge was dismissed.
I wonder why his license had been suspended. Substances, perhaps? Might substances have been involved in Lee’s death, as well? I assume we’ll find out more as time goes on.
Photo of the charming Mr. Momeni at the link: https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/arrest-made-in-murder-of-cash-app-founder-bob-lee/
In other news, an Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts has been arrested “after being implicated in the leak of dozens of sensitive US intelligence documents — the biggest national security breach in at least 10 years. Law enforcement officers swarmed the 21-year-old’s home in North Dighton, Mass. about 20 miles east of Providence, RI, hours after the New York Times reported that investigators wanted to speak with Teixeira, who was reportedly stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/national-guardsman-jack-teixeira-arrested-in-us-intel-leaks/
From the article:
‘…“Since late last week, the FBI has aggressively pursued investigative leads, and today’s arrest exemplifies our continued commitment to identifying, pursuing and holding accountable those who betray our country’s trust and put our national security at risk,” the bureau said in a statement confirming Teixeira’s apprehension….’ [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
Alas, “Biden” has absolutely no sense of irony….
(To be fair, “he” has absolutely no sense at all…well, with the exception of a tremendously talent for vandalism, sabotage, dishonesty and creative destruction…)
Nope, they don’t call “him” President Fentanyl for nothing…
Neo sed: “Guns just “lying around”?”
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Why the emphasis on “lying around”?
I have a pistol lying around on my desk right now like it usually is. Another pistol in pieces on the desk behind me. Several long guns standing around against the wall over there, as well as a few guitars, and 2 shotguns lying on the workbench in the workshop.
The rotten media and rotten assed gov’t has been successful in programming millions of mostly inexperienced people in to believing guns of themselves are inherently evil and must be supervised under lock and chain at all times no matter what.
Jeez, I also have several hammers, nailguns, knives, hatchets and axes, as well as many wood boards that can be used as clubs, and a plethora of other things just lying around minding their own business. In my 68 years on this planet not a single one of them has ever done anything untoward. But a lot of people some how think they might. An evil phillips screwdriver did, however, stab itself all the way through the web of my left thumb yesterday and I think a task force should be assigned to look into these potentially nefarious impromptu weapons of war.
london breed, used to say, see everything is hunky dory, its frightening how clueless these people are ,
ghostsniper:
I know plenty of people with guns in the home. Not one of them leaves guns “lying around.” They are often close at hand, though, in a closet or a drawer.
If there are children around or any chance of children getting one, they are in a locked place.
Of course, some people do leave their guns “lying around,” and most are probably quite peaceful and all is well. However, here we are talking about a suspect who is likely to have murdered someone and is being arrested for that. The “lying around” quote is also part of a neighbor’s observation that the suspect had many guns and knives “lying around.” Most people also have their knives in the kitchen, in a knife holder or drawer or one of those magnetic things on the wall. Everyone I know has knives, but ordinarily they aren’t “lying around” haphazardly.
I believe there is a law requiring guns to be locked up when stored, in CA.
TommyJay:
Only if kids or people who can’t own guns might get to them.
I looked it up.
Lee’s murder sounds like a grudge settlement by someone who thought they were smarter than the investigators. It reminds me, on the face of it, of that egotistical county official in Nevada that murdered the reporter that was making his life miserable….
Since access to ‘classified information’ requires not only appropriate ‘security clearance’ but also a ‘need to know’… one wonders what this 21 year old National Guard airman’s job is.
Growing up in the backwoods of Maine… guns were considered just another tool. They could have been said to be ‘laying around’. We also never locked our doors.
Neo says that Momeni “seems to have had enough money to have lived in a fairly upscale place. . . ”
He may be a poseur whose house of cards was about to collapse: “[Momeni’s company] Expand IT is based in the Bay Area, with its office listed as the same address in Emeryville where Momeni lived — and where he was arrested Thursday morning. Despite giving the impression he was running a thriving tech business, neighbor Sam Singer remained skeptical there was ever more than Momeni working there. He told The Post: ‘I never saw anyone in there but him and one time a cleaning service. No employees ever.’ The [SF] Chronicle also reported while Momeni claimed he graduated from UC Berkeley, the school has no record of his attendance or graduation.”
According to the Post article, Momeni is an adherent of Zoroastrianism, FWIW.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/13/everything-we-know-about-nima-momeni-bob-lees-alleged-killer/
Two comments:
1. The stabbing multiple times has an air of personal anger to it. Being San Francisco, I have to wonder at some gay relationship. Both were single and Lee had moved to Florida. Why back in SFO and riding in the car with the killer at 2 AM?
2. The “Leak” has stirred up quite a bit of hysteria in the regime. Maybe because it disclosed the truth of US actions in Ukraine ? Special Forces there in country ? What are they doing ? Are they like the forces in Syria that the Army lied to Trump about ? The assessment of Ukraine’s chances sounds like something I already had heard from more reliable slources than the Pentagon.
Am I the only one who’s tired of seeing “gift” used as a verb?
When I was in the Navy I had a Top Secret clearance. I had access to certain types of documents, which I can not say what they were. Some are questioning his age, 21. I was 22 and a mere E-3.
Neo sed: “If there are…”
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Oh dear, here we go again with the “if” thing.
And “if” there is NO children about the area?
In the article there was no mention of children.
In a persons private home why shouldn’t they use or not use their possessions as they see fit?
Since hammers were used over 400 times to kill people in the US in 2020 should they be kept locked up too?
Once again, Neo, you are attributing behavior to an inanimate object and you should know that is wrong.
Maybe if the gov’t required people to keep their vehicles locked up 24/7 50k people wouldn’t get killed in wrecks each year.
Regardless of the means, anyone that physically harms another should face fast and stern punishment without exception and dare I even say held accountable for restitution? But then, that would require the gov’t to act adult and that’s not going to happen in our lifetime.
On security clearances: maybe the reason people of relatively young age get these clearances is because they have not lived long enough to have been exposed to or involved in questionable or nefarious activities. Run a check on a 21 year old and you will find his HS record, maybe some scouting(?), and college. Nothing there would necessarily stand out as a person not devoted to national security, etc. Throw in ROTC or something similar and he/she starts to look golden. Even having a flakey or funky summer job or two might not be disqualifying as it was “only for the summer – no big deal”.
But one beneficial aspect of the wider acceptance of open homosexuality is that those folks are now less likely to end up being black mailed for their orientation, further protecting them and us if they happen to be people with national security access of one sort or another.
ghostsniper:
You are combining two things I wrote and coming up with something I didn’t say, and then attacking the strawman you created.
I was writing to “TommyJay” about the laws in California about keeping guns in locked safes. He seemed to think it was a requirement in that state, and I was saying it’s NOT a legal requirement except for under certain conditions.
None of that had anything to do with the guy accused of murdering Lee, nor does it have anything to do with leaving multiple guns “lying around” in plain sight, versus keeping them handy in an unlocked drawer or unlocked closet but out of sight.
And I have said absolutely nothing against gun possession, nor have I blamed guns for the things people do with them.
You seem to have some pre-conceived notion of what I might be saying and thinking and are not paying attention to what I’m actually saying.
if he wanted to be more effective, he would have shot him, but apparently he didn’t plan this out very well,
1. The stabbing multiple times has an air of personal anger to it. Being San Francisco, I have to wonder at some gay relationship. Both were single and Lee had moved to Florida. Why back in SFO and riding in the car with the killer at 2 AM?
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It’s not clear if he was separated from his wife or divorced. He has two children and by some accounts they live with her in the Bay Area.
Momeni must be hoping that Chesa Boudin gets reinstated as the DA in SF.
in san francisco, you know the police will not be arriving, and you probably can’t wait to get it out of the safe,
madness all around
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11971741/District-votes-parental-secrecy-policy-regarding-gender.html
Am I the only one who’s tired of seeing “gift” used as a verb?
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No.
John Hinderaker (Powerline) on the dilution of “top secret” labels to near meaninglessness: ‘The effect of this over-classification is that “top secret” documents are not limited to a handful of senior officials, but rather, must be shared with a large number of underlings, whose loyalties are entirely unknown, in order for the government to function. Apparently including junior National Guardsmen. Thus there is little differentiation between mundane, every day documents that large numbers of employees must see to do their jobs, and the tiny handful of documents and bits of information that are actually, as the public would understand it, top secret.’
It’s not clear if he was separated from his wife or divorced. He has two children and by some accounts they live with her in the Bay Area.
She was described in one story as “ex-wife” and no mention of location. Still, why 2 AM with the killer ?
Still, why 2 AM with the killer ?
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Out pub crawling?
On the multiple stabbing. They’re only a few places on a body that a stab instantly kills. The killer keeps stabbing until the victim falls down. There are thousands of cases where this has happened.
About trusting the people working in a secure job, I had a friend whose father worked for the CIA. He said they provide summer jobs for local high school students. They try to keep these kids on thru college, if the kids want, then offer a career with the Agency. This pretty much guarantees the recruits background. Now this was during the Cold War when everyone was paranoid.
Am I the only one who’s tired of seeing “gift” used as a verb?
No; and add “ask” used as a noun (in place of “request”), and the gross overuse of “impact” as a transitive verb and “impactful” as an adjective.
PA Cat, so many language battles lost. It’s true that language changes over time, but when there were perfectly good words available, it makes me sad to see them replaced unnecessarily. On the open thread, I am bemoaning the use of “gender” instead of the perfectly clear “sex.”
Out pub crawling?
Possible. The killer has a phony IT company so there are lots of possibilities.
Sounds like pub crawling after all.
According to a source familiar with the circumstances of the events leading up to the killing, Momeni, Lee and a group of friends had gone out the night of the killing. At some point, Momeni and Lee were in a car alone together, and Momeni became upset at Lee and blamed him for someone in the party having too much to drink, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
At the time he was killed, Bob Lee was staying in San Francisco for a few days to spend time with friends after a MobileCoin leadership summit, said his friend Doug Dalton, who met Lee years ago when both were software engineers.
Lee and Momeni had friends in common but were not close, Dalton said. It appears that like most homicide victims in the U.S., Lee knew his attacker.
Still, why the murder ?
Mike K:
Aha, those are the witnesses from earlier in the evening whom I speculated had spoken to police. My guess is that Momeni was a suspect almost from the start.
Why did the disagreement lead to murder? My guess – and it’s just a guess, based on zero evidence – is that it was connected with some use of substances by Momeni. In other words, he may have been high on something.
Or a psychopath. Or both.
Seems the killer was defending his sister’s honor, against her wishes.
Story may change tomorrow.
How else are we going to pare the language down to fit in our Newspeak dictionary?