Arrest made in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee

A fellow tech worker was arrested Thursday in the slaying of Cash App founder Bob Lee on the streets of San Francisco, according to a local report.

Lee allegedly knew his killer, Mission Local reported.

The dad of two, 43, was stabbed just after 2:30 a.m. April 4 in the ritzy neighborhood of Rincon Hill.

The motive for the apparent murder is unknown.

The Post has reached out to San Francisco police for more information.

Tragic security video — which has not been publicly released — shows the dying entrepreneur being ignored by bystanders as he begged for help following the attack. 


Photo of Lee.
CashApp founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death Tuesday morning.
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Two people cleaning the sidewalk.
Workers clean the sidewalk area where tech executive Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco, Calif.
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The footage shows Lee, who was a chief product officer at MobileCoin before his death, walking up to a car with its hazards flashing and lifting his shirt to the driver to show he was severely injured. The car drove off without helping and Lee collapsed to the ground the footage shows, according to various local outlets who had seen it.

Lee, who has two young daughters, called 911 himself telling them he’d been stabbed and needed help. By the time cops arrived, he was unconscious and later succumbed to his injuries from the slashing at the hospital. 

A friend of Lee said that tech mogul recently moved to Miami because he felt San Francisco was “deteriorting.”


Police at the scene of the crime at night.
A friend said Lee has recently left San Francisco because he feared it was “deteriorating.”
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“He was in the ‘good’ part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack,” Shields previously tweeted.

Rick Lee penned a heartbreaking tribute to his son on Facebook Wednesday, calling him his “best friend.”

“Bob would give you the shirt off his back,” the grieving dad wrote. “He would never look down on anyone and adhered to a strict no-judgment philosophy.”