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- The man accused of killing Bob Lee planned the attack, prosecutors said in court papers.
- Nima Momeni confronted the CashApp founder about Momeni's sister before stabbing him, per the papers.
- Momeni appeared in a San Francisco court Friday and is due to be arraigned on April 25.
The man accused of killing CashApp founder Bob Lee planned the attack, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday.
Nima Momeni confronted Lee, whom he had known for about a decade, had argued about Momeni's sister, the court documents showed, before driving him to a "dark and secluded area" of San Francisco in what was alleged to be a "planned and deliberate attack."
Lee was stabbed three times with a kitchen knife, including once in the hip and twice in the chest. One of the chest stab wounds directly hit his heart, resulting in his death, according to Ellen Moffatt who conducted the autopsy.
"Defendant did not use some type of pocket knife, but a cooking knife from an apartment and kitchen," wrote Omid Talai, the assistant District Attorney.
Momeni threw the knife away after the attack and fled the scene in his BMW at "a high rate of speed" and "left victim to slowly die," according to the motion.
The San Francisco Police Department, which recovered a four-inch knife at the scene, arrested Momeni on Thursday. He appeared in a San Francisco court Friday and was scheduled to be arraigned on a murder charge, but did not enter a plea after the hearing was postponed until April 25.
Momeni didn't speak during the proceedings, except to briefly answer a question by Judge Christine Van Aken, who oversaw the hearing. His sister Khazar Momeni was also seen in court, The Associated Press reported.
The San Francisco District Attorney filed the nine-page motion to detain 38-year-old Momeni, relying on surveillance video and testimony from a friend who was with Lee in the hours before he died.
The judge agreed to detain Momeni without bail. He could be jailed for between 26 years to life if convicted, according to the office of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, per the news agency.
Momeni was represented at the hearing by attorney Robert Canny, who said outside the court that "the facts of what occurred, or didn't occur, will come out over time," per The AP.
Momeni describes himself as an "IT Consultant/Entrepreneur", according to his LinkedIn profile, as well as the owner of a company called Expand IT.
The San Francisco DA's office and a representative for Paula Canny's law firm, who is representing Momeni, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.
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