New details of CashApp founder Bob Lee‘s remaining moments had been revealed at a preliminary court listening to for homicide suspect Nima Momeni in San Francisco on Monday.
The San Francisco prosecutor’s workplace started laying out its homicide case in opposition to Mr Momeni, 38, who was charged with stabbing the 43-year-old tech entrepreneur to dying whereas driving by means of San Francisco’s Rincon Hill neighbourhood on 4 April.
Cedric Hood, a San Francisco Police Division officer, advised the listening to that he responded to a 911 name to seek out Lee “bleeding uncontrollably” from stab wounds to his chest and the hip, in accordance with KRON4.
“He was unresponsive,” Mr Hood mentioned.
Mr Hood advised the court he had been knowledgeable by one other officer {that a} homeless man was sleeping close to rubbish cans about 40 ft away, in accordance with the San Francisco Standard.
The homeless man appeared incoherent when questioned by police, Mr Hood advised the court.
Mr Momeni employed high-profile defence attorneys Saam Zangeneh and Bradford Cohen in Could after his earlier lawyer Paula Canny withdrew from the case, citing a battle of curiosity.
The defence sought to solid doubt on the thoroughness of the police investigation.
Mr Zangeneh told reporters outdoors court that police had did not correctly query the homeless man.
Crime scene investigator Rosalyn Examine advised the court that he examined a blood stain “drip path” alongside the sidewalks of Harrison and Important streets the place Lee had staggered after he was attacked, in accordance with KRON4.
A four-inch silver kitchen knife with a black deal with was discovered close to the blood path inside a locked California Division of Transportation parking zone, Ms Examine mentioned.
Nima Momeni, the person charged in the deadly stabbing of Money App founder Bob Lee, makes his manner into the courtroom for his arraignment in San Francisco on 2 Could
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When requested by Mr Zangeneh whether or not any blood was discovered inside Mr Momeni’s BMW, Ms Examine mentioned she was not concerned with that a part of the investigation, in accordance with KRON4.
Below cross-examination by Mr Zangeneh, Ms Examine agreed the knife discovered close to the homicide scene seemed to be previous.
Mr Zangeneh additionally requested a few bag of cocaine that was discovered in Lee’s resort room.
The preliminary listening to is predicted to final two days, after which Decide Harry Dorfman will rule whether or not there may be enough proof for the case to proceed to trial.
Mr Momeni appeared in court carrying an orange prison-issue jumpsuit. His mom Mahnaz Tayarani was in court. Lee’s ex-wife Krista Lee, father Rick and brother Tim Lee additionally attended the listening to, in accordance with the Customary.
Prosecutors allege Mr Momeni stabbed Lee after the pair argued about Lee’s romantic involvement along with his sister Khazar Momeni.
Money App creator Bob Lee was discovered ‘bleeding uncontrollably’ from stab wounds to his chest and the hip by police
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Surveillance footage captured the stabbing and occasions main as much as the altercation. Footage from round 2am that night time allegedly confirmed the sufferer and suspect stepping into Mr Momeni’s automobile and driving to the secluded space the place Lee was killed.
Mr Momeni was arrested at his dwelling in Emeryville on 13 April.
He has pleaded not responsible to homicide, and his former legal professional beforehand insisted that the stabbing was unintended and in self-defence.
An post-mortem confirmed Lee sustained knife wounds that pierced his coronary heart and lung.
In April, it emerged that Mr Momeni was cited however not charged in a 2022 home battery case.
Mr Momeni additionally had earlier run-ins with police, together with a dismissed misdemeanour cost for driving beneath the affect in 2004 and fees of driving with a suspended license and promoting a switchblade in 2011 which had been later dropped.
