Shawn Wen

A year before Bob Lee was killed, San Francisco recalled its progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, in a campaign heavily funded by venture capitalists. They rallied around fear of crime.

The trial for Bob Lee’s murder became a media circus, including paparazzi photographers, celebrity attorneys, obstinate witnesses, testimony about drug-fueled parties, and secret videos.

After his murder, Bob Lee’s friends and family felt that his story was obscured by waves of headlines, rumors, and misinformation, first about street crime in San Francisco, then about the debaucherous lifestyle of the city's elite.

The 2023 murder of a tech executive seemed to fit neatly into narratives about street crime in liberal cities, until it didn’t.

San Francisco officials were eager to quash the doom loop narrative and insisted that Bob Lee was killed by someone he knew. But Lee’s friends and family had never heard of his accused murderer, Nima Momeni.

When Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App, was killed in the streets of San Francisco, his death was initially a mystery. The city took the blame.

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Technology executive Bob Lee’s accused killer told a jury he acted in self defense after Lee tried to attack him with a knife on a San Francisco street a year and a half ago, saying “he went crazy on me” after losing his temper.