Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, following an operation undertaken outside the city’s borders. The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew.

We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni. The name and Emeryville address SFPD officers traveled to correspond with this man, the owner of a company called Expand IT.

Multiple police sources have described the predawn knifing that last week left the 43-year-old Lee dead in a deserted section of downtown San Francisco as neither a robbery attempt nor a random attack.

Rather, Lee and Momeni were portrayed by police as being familiar with one another. In the wee hours of April 4, they were purportedly driving together through downtown San Francisco in a car registered to the suspect.

Some manner of confrontation allegedly commenced while both men were in the vehicle, and potentially continued after Lee exited the car. Police allege that Momeni stabbed Lee multiple times with a knife that was recovered not far from the spot on the 300 block of Main Street to which officers initially responded.

LOL! Yes, SF was a nice city, and in those days, even if you were 71, you’d have been fine.

It always had a higher proportion of loonies than other places, but they were under control. A lot of them were from way out of town but had wound up there because it was considered “tolerant” from its rowdy Gold Rush days.

I had a friend who said that it was because SF was as far as they could go in their wanderings over the country before plunging into the ocean.

However, it was in the late 70s that they started accommodating the loonies and druggies (as a by-product of the hippie influx), by the 80s the black parts of SF and many of the waterfront areas were too dangerous to walk in, and then I left. It got better briefly and now it has hit bottom.

I’ve been back occasionally, and I can’t believe how bad it is now. It’s all the result of Dem politics.

But I don’t stay long and increasingly I just stay at an airport hotel, make whatever family visits I need to make, and then get out of town. Very sad.

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