Post-mortem: Stab wounds to coronary heart, lungs killed Money App founder
SAN FRANCISCO — Money App founder Bob Lee died throughout surgical procedure from stab wounds that pierced his coronary heart and a lung, in line with an post-mortem report launched Tuesday that additionally exhibits he had alcohol and medicines in his system.
Docs at San Francisco Basic Hospital tried for hours to shut the injuries in Lee’s coronary heart and save his life, however they declared him useless at 6:49 a.m. April 4, in line 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 behind demise was a number of stab wounds, and that the way 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 Could 18 after Momeni’s protection lawyer, Paula Canny, requested for extra time.
Outdoors the courtroom, Canny emphasised Lee’s drug use may have led him to make unhealthy choices.
“There’s plenty of medicine in Bob Lee’s system. I imply, Bob Lee’s system is just like the Walgreens of leisure medicine,” Canny stated.
“What occurs when folks take medicine? Usually, they act like drug folks, and what drug folks act like is just not themselves, not happy-go-lucky,” she stated. “Simply sort of illusory and make unhealthy choices and do unhealthy issues.”
She would not say whether or not Momeni did medicine 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 buddy of Lee who was with him the afternoon and night earlier than he died led investigators to Momeni.
A buddy 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 consuming with one other unidentified man, in line with courtroom paperwork. The buddy stated he and Lee left the condo and went to Lee’s lodge room the place he witnessed a dialog by which Momeni was questioning Lee over whether or not his youthful sister “was doing medicine or something inappropriate,” prosecutors stated.
The buddy and Lee parted methods round 12:30 a.m. Minutes later, Lee may be seen on video surveillance getting into the high-end Millennium Tower, the place public data present Elyassnia and her husband, Dino Elyassnia, personal a unit. The video additionally exhibits 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 acquired 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 sufferer to slowly die,” in line with a movement to detain. Police recovered a knife with a 4-inch blade on the scene.
San Francisco District Lawyer Brooke Jenkins stated protection attorneys typically smear a murder sufferer’s character as a protection technique. “Whether or not or not somebody has or has not accomplished medicine — that doesn’t give somebody a license to kill him,” Jenkins stated.
Lee is thought for creating the broadly used cellular cost service Money App whereas working as chief expertise officer of the cost firm Sq., now often called Block.