The late-night deadly stabbing of Silicon Valley know-how government Bob Lee with a kitchen knife in downtown San Francisco final week was “deliberate and deliberate,” native prosecutors stated in a courtroom submitting.
San Francisco District Lawyer Brooke Jenkins urged a state choose to not grant bail and launch suspect Nima Momeni, a Bay Space IT entrepreneur, saying within the submitting that “detention is critical to guard public security.”
New particulars in Friday’s submitting reveal how the ugly homicide allegedly unfolded.
A witness interviewed by investigators who was with Lee on the resort the place he was staying on the eve of his demise described overhearing a Facetime name during which Momeni questioned Lee about his social interplay with Momeni’s youthful sister, whom the witness stated might have been in a troubled marriage. Hours later, surveillance footage confirmed Momeni and Lee leaving the Millennium Tower residence constructing, the place the sister lives, in Momeni’s BMW Z4 sports activities automobile.
Momeni drove in the wrong way of Lee’s resort to a darkish and secluded space a number of blocks away, the place each males exited the automobile, and Momeni stabbed Lee thrice with a kitchen knife, together with one wound that “instantly penetrated his coronary heart, inflicting his demise,” earlier than dashing away, in keeping with the submitting.
“Defendant didn’t use some type of pocket knife, however a cooking knife from an residence and kitchen,” Jenkins wrote. “This was a deliberate and deliberate assault.”
When law enforcement officials responded to the scene at about 2:35 am, they discovered the “sufferer uncontrollably bleeding from obvious stab wounds to his chest and hip,” in keeping with the submitting.
Police discovered blood splattered on the sidewalks and a silver knife with a black blade about 4 inches lengthy, with “what gave the impression to be blood on it” close to the 400 block of Most important Avenue, not removed from Millennium Tower, prosecutors stated.
Investigators unlocked Lee’s cellphone this week and located a message on Lee’s cellphone from Momeni’s sister saying, “Simply needed to verify your doing okay Trigger I do know nima got here wayyyyyy down laborious on you And thanks for being such a cultured man dealing with it with class.”
Earlier Friday, Momeni made his first courtroom look to push again the date to enter his plea.
Momeni, who’s in custody, appeared briefly in a San Francisco courtroom to ask to delay his arraignment till April 25 as a result of the lawyer dealing with his case is on trip. The choose granted the request.
Momeni wore an orange sweatshirt and solely acknowledged his lawyer’s request for the delay. Members of his household have been additionally within the courtroom.
