CA - Cash App Creator, Bob Lee, Stabbed to Death, San Francisco, Apr 2023 *Arrest*

[whitelilac]

East Cut neighbourhood in SF is a wealthy area, lots of high tech people living in the pricy condominiums. East Cut also has its own security system, and of late it's considered a safer neighborhood than other areas.
We don't know if this was a random attack, but I think there's a possibility it was targeted.
I feel so badly for his two young daughters.
Horrible irony that he relocated to Miami for a safer general environment, and then this happens when he is back in SF. Tragic and senseless.

My daughter recently moved to the Bay area, not SF proper, but east bay. She was offered a position at SFGH, trauma nurse, but for night shifts. When I was up there we scouted the commute....ferry plus buses. The bus route itself was dreadful...going through the worst areas. And in the middle of the night no doubt worse. She declined the position (thank God), took another one elsewhere.

 

[SophieRose]

Beautiful house. Mill Valley is not San Francisco.

Exclusive | Cash App founder Bob Lee sold Bay Area home just months before death

Lee, who was fatally stabbed on Tuesday morning in San Francisco, sold off a four-bedroom residence in Marin County for $4.43 million last July, records show.

nypost.com

Bob Lee, the late founder of Cash App, sold his longtime San Francisco-area home months before he was fatally stabbed in the city, The Post has learned.

Lee, 43, purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence in 2018 for $2.6 million.

 

[cvaldez1975]

Beautiful house. Mill Valley is not San Francisco.

Exclusive | Cash App founder Bob Lee sold Bay Area home just months before death

Lee, who was fatally stabbed on Tuesday morning in San Francisco, sold off a four-bedroom residence in Marin County for $4.43 million last July, records show.

nypost.com

Bob Lee, the late founder of Cash App, sold his longtime San Francisco-area home months before he was fatally stabbed in the city, The Post has learned.

Lee, 43, purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom residence in 2018 for $2.6 million.

right, misleading title. mill valley is across the bay and over the bridge.

 

[Canaille]

It’s just so sad that he moved away because of the crime, stayed one extra day and was murdered… I assume by a stranger for no reason.

I'm not trying to be ugly, are you being serious or sarcastic? I ask because I started think more about the ironies here.

Heres' a guy who recently moved to Miami because SF has become too dangerous. Yet, there he was walking at 2 a.m....<modsnip: No approved link to specific information stated>

 

[Marysmith]

I'm not trying to be ugly, are you being serious or sarcastic? I ask because I started think more about the ironies here.

Heres' a guy who recently moved to Miami because SF has become too dangerous. Yet, there he was walking at 2 a.m....<modsnip: No approved link to specific information stated>

I was being serious. I think it’s sad.
Yes it was early in the morning… of course we don’t know what happened yet and hopefully we will soon.

 

[taylorss]

so sad & disturbing! Ugg poor guy, his poor family, his two little daughters should never have to experience anything like this horror

Seems like LE are pretty tight lipped on this so maybe we should expect news soon ? I hope so at least

 

[Canaille]

Does anyone know for a fact whether or not he was still married?

 

[whitelilac]

A knife has been located close to where Bob Lee was first attacked....not known yet if it was the weapon used.

It doesn't mention in these particular articles/videos that his phone and wallet were still with him, but I saw that earlier in another article ....so IMO for now, (can't find it now) which leads me to believe it wasn't an attempted robbery.
Targeted, maybe, but given that fentanyl is so prevalent there.....may have been a crazed perp on drugs.

The video of Mr Lee stumbling is so distressing. Tried ringing the bell of a building, tried getting help from a motorist....very very hard to watch.

And now another high profile attack in the Marina district, the day after....former city fire commissioner who survived and is hospitalized.

Bob Lee Killing: Suspect Arrested, Court Documents Released, Surveillance Video

Here’s a look at the latest on what police are saying, how the death has reignited debate over public safety, and how Lee made an impact on the tech industry.

www.nbcbayarea.com

Surveillance Video Shows Moments After Tech Exec Bob Lee Was Stabbed in San Francisco

New surveillance footage shows the moments after tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday morning.

www.nbcbayarea.com

 

[evilwise]

I wouldn't be in San Francisco but if I somehow were, I suppose if a bloodied nerd threw himself into the bed of my truck I would drive him to a hospital. I haven't watched that closed circuit recording but I suspect I am a fundamentally different sort of man from the one Bob approached. Is it becoming dangerous to be a crypto billionaire? Not Cash App at all but I do feel like some crypto certainly overlaps with organized crime. All in my opinion only, of course.

 

[SophieRose]

Does anyone know for a fact whether or not he was still married?

I don't know what their marital status was but she has had her own home in Marin County for several years.

 

[LadyL]

He ran up to a car and showed its occupant his stab wounds. The car drove away without helping him at all.
Very sad, this world we find ourselves living in.

imo

same thing happened to Gavin Degraw (musician) when he got attacked in New York

 

[LadyL]

A knife has been located close to where Bob Lee was first attacked....not known yet if it was the weapon used.

It doesn't mention in these particular articles/videos that his phone and wallet were still with him, but I saw that earlier in another article ....so IMO for now, (can't find it now) which leads me to believe it wasn't an attempted robbery.
Targeted, maybe, but given that fentanyl is so prevalent there.....may have been a crazed perp on drugs.

The video of Mr Lee stumbling is so distressing. Tried ringing the bell of a building, tried getting help from a motorist....very very hard to watch.

And now another high profile attack in the Marina district, the day after....former city fire commissioner who survived and is hospitalized.

Bob Lee Killing: Suspect Arrested, Court Documents Released, Surveillance Video

Here’s a look at the latest on what police are saying, how the death has reignited debate over public safety, and how Lee made an impact on the tech industry.

www.nbcbayarea.com

Surveillance Video Shows Moments After Tech Exec Bob Lee Was Stabbed in San Francisco

New surveillance footage shows the moments after tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday morning.

www.nbcbayarea.com

he definitely had his phone cause he called 911 on it after two different cars drove away from him

at this link: San Francisco police chase leads after Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed to death

 

[SophieRose]

East Cut neighbourhood in SF is a wealthy area, lots of high tech people living in the pricy condominiums. East Cut also has its own security system, and of late it's considered a safer neighborhood than other areas.
We don't know if this was a random attack, but I think there's a possibility it was targeted.
I feel so badly for his two young daughters.
Horrible irony that he relocated to Miami for a safer general environment, and then this happens when he is back in SF. Tragic and senseless.

My daughter recently moved to the Bay area, not SF proper, but east bay. She was offered a position at SFGH, trauma nurse, but for night shifts. When I was up there we scouted the commute....ferry plus buses. The bus route itself was dreadful...going through the worst areas. And in the middle of the night no doubt worse. She declined the position (thank God), took another one elsewhere.

It's ten years this year that SFGH lost track of a patient and eventually found her dead in a stairwell over two weeks later.

2013 Death Of Patient Found In SF General Hospital Stairwell Leads To $3 Million Settlement

The family of a patient who went missing for more than two weeks before being found dead in a stairwell at San Francisco General Hospital has settled a lawsuit for $3 million.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[everybodhi]

He ran up to a car and showed its occupant his stab wounds. The car drove away without helping him at all.
Very sad, this world we find ourselves living in.

imo

It is sad but they may have been too afraid to stop, they had no way to know who he was or what happened. I can see how one would be afraid of being attacked by the perp/perps themselves in that situation at 2:30 in the morning

 

[SophieRose]

Bob Lee Killing: Suspect Arrested, Court Documents Released, Surveillance Video

Here’s a look at the latest on what police are saying, how the death has reignited debate over public safety, and how Lee made an impact on the tech industry.

www.nbcbayarea.com

While police aren't revealing much information publicly, at a community meeting Thursday night, Chief Bill Scott said investigators do have leads.

"The bottom line is we do have some good things to follow up on this case and they are working tirelessly," he said.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

I'm not trying to be ugly, are you being serious or sarcastic? I ask because I started think more about the ironies here.

Heres' a guy who recently moved to Miami because SF has become too dangerous. Yet, there he was walking at 2 a.m....<modsnip: No approved link to specific information stated>

Agree.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

Anyone get the feeling this was personal?

Yes but I don't want to break any Websleuth rules.

 

[Cascadia Mount]

I would have called 911 after driving off (and we don’t know whether this driver did, they may have — this report was just based on surveillance footage), but I would have probably driven off too. If you’re in a bad area, you’re on high alert to drive off if someone approaches. Ted Bundy used the ruse of needing help for an injury, so that wouldn’t have made me feel safe. You have to make snap judgments and you don’t have time to assess these things. Plus, if you do accurately determine the person was stabbed and needed help, that means they’re not far from someone with a weapon who wants them dead. Nope, I’m not getting out to help. I’m not sticking around either.

I actually had to do that once in San Francisco. I called 911 as I was walking away from a situation. A woman was arguing with a man on a busy street in the afternoon and was telling people to call 911. I wasn’t about to question her judgment on that, so I passed along the message to 911. But I was getting the hell out of there and not doing it in earshot.

Regardless of what happened here, energy should not be spent demonizing this driver.

Another Bay Area resident and I think you are absolutely right.

 

[Zinn]

I'm not trying to be ugly, are you being serious or sarcastic? I ask because I started think more about the ironies here.

Heres' a guy who recently moved to Miami because SF has become too dangerous. Yet, there he was walking at 2 a.m....<modsnip: No approved link to specific information stated>

I know a friend reportedly mentioned him moving to Miami in part because he felt San Francisco was deteriorating, but that does not necessarily mean he felt physically unsafe there. Considering Miami has about double the homicide rate of San Francisco per capita, he might have been alluding to things like increased homelessness, business closures, property crime, decrease in office workers downtown, tech layoffs, pandemic population exodus, etc.

He was reportedly staying at a hotel roughly half a mile from where he ultimately collapsed. If his starting point (which I don’t think has been revealed) was near that same place where he collapsed and called 911, it would not be particularly odd for a man to think it would be safe enough to walk half a mile to his hotel in that particular neighborhood at 2:30am. Just my opinion.

Edit to add: Also possible he planned to take a Lyft or Uber that half mile back but was attacked before/during/after submitting a request. Very little detail has been released thus far.

 

[everybodhi]

Lee was back in San Francisco for a visit after moving to Miami in October, his father, Rick Lee, said on social media.

"Bob would give you the shirt off his back, He would never look down on anyone and adhered to a strict no-judgment philosophy. Lee defied the arrogant and self-centered "tech bro" stereotype and instead exuded an "innate kindness”

It was not unusual for Lee to be out late, and he loved San Francisco.
"I'd want to go to bed at like 9. He talked me into going someplace till midnight, and then he'd be like, `Well, there's another one,' and you'd go to that. And he's like, `There's another one.' He just had real boundless energy..he was kind of up for anything.

"I can't imagine a situation where he would instigate a conflict. That's the tragedy of it."

Few details in San Francisco stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee