Matt Dorsey of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors tweeted that the San Francisco Police Department has made an arrest in the assassination of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
Dorsey thanked the police department’s homicide detail for “their tireless work to bring Bob Lee’s killer to justice and for their arrest of a suspect this morning.”
The Bay Area city of Emeryville has apprehended a suspect, as first reported by the local news website Mission Local.
CNN has sought out to the San Francisco Police Department and the office of the mayor for comment.
Early on April 4, Lee was stabbed to death in the Rincon Hill neighbourhood of San Francisco. Many in the tech industry and beyond reacted to the news of Lee’s death with astonishment and sorrow.
Lee was the former chief technology officer of Square and was instrumental in the introduction of Cash App. In 2021, he joined the cryptocurrency and digital payments startup MobileCoin as its chief product officer.
The CEO of MobileCoin, Josh Goldbard, previously told CNN, “Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was a genuine individual. “He was born for the world that is being born right now; he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how absurd, he brought to life.”
