San Francisco prosecutors have released surveillance images that they say show Cash App founder Bob Lee and his suspected killer on the night of his death in early April.
Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old suspect, allegedly took issue with Lee’s interactions with his married sister hours before the deadly stabbing.
One image, taken in an elevator on Khazar Momeni’s luxury Mission Street apartment building, appears to show Lee gesturing at her brother to look him in the eyes as they speak.
According to prosecutors, the two had a rocky night before Momeni allegedly stabbed Lee with his sister’s kitchen knife in a parking lot nearby.
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On Tuesday, Momeni’s defense attorney, Paula Canny, filed a motion with the court for permission to withdraw from the case due to an unspecified conflict of interest.
“It’s both with great disappointment and relief that I’m here,” she told reporters outside the courtroom. “It’s just a super messed-up situation. S— happens in representing people.”
At a prior hearing, she told reporters that Lee’s death had been an accident and self-defense.
Momeni, a Silicon Valley outsourcer, pleaded not guilty this month ahead of his arraignment on murder charges in Lee’s death.
Police arrested the Iranian national on April 13, nine days after allegedly stabbing the 43-year-old tech titan in a dispute over his sister, Khazar, the wife of a prominent San Francisco plastic surgeon.
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A witness told police that the suspected killer had confronted Lee earlier in the evening for allegedly using drugs with his sister, according to court documents.
Later that evening, the two were seen on surveillance video leaving an apartment building together and getting into Momeni’s car.
They drove to a parking lot, where court documents say Lee was stabbed…
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