Bob Lee, the Cash App founder who was stabbed to death in San Francisco last month, had consumed beer, cocaine, and ketamine before his death, according to an autopsy report released on Monday, May 2.
Prosecutors say Lee was stabbed at 2:30 a.m. on April 4 by defendant Nima Momeni.
Doctors tried for over four hours to save his life, but he died in the hospital at 6:49 a.m.
According to the results of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Lee, 43, had cocaethylene, a chemical formed when alcohol and cocaine interact, in his system when he died, as well as metabolic metabolites of cocaine and ketamine.
The analysis listed the allergy medication cetirizine (best known by the brand name Zyrtec), as well.
The report, written by assistant medical examiner Dr. Ellen Moffatt, made no connection between those substances and Lee’s cause of death, which was classified as numerous stab wounds. She decided that the manner and method of death were homicide by sharp injury.
Lee was stabbed three times: twice in the chest and once in the hip. One of the chest incisions was 2 to 3 inches deep and pierced the “right lateral anterior inferior ventricle of the heart” as well as the “right posterior lateral inferior ventricle,” according to the report.
But Paula Canny, the defense attorney for the suspect, Nima Momeni, emphasized Lee’s drug use when she answered questions from reporters.
“There’s a lot of drugs in Bob Lee’s system. I mean, Bob Lee’s system is like the Walgreens of recreational drugs,” Canny said after a pretrial hearing Tuesday outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco.
“What happens when people take drugs? Generally, they act like drug people, and what drug people act like is not themselves, not happy-go-lucky,” she added. “Just kind of illusory and make bad decisions and do bad things.”
Momeni, 38, owns an information technology business and lives in the East Bay city of Emeryville. He and Lee allegedly got into an argument over Momeni’s sister before the stabbing, according to court documents.
At one point, his sister allegedly sent a text to Lee referring to the verbal confrontation.
“Just wanted to make sure your doing ok Cause know nima came wayyyyyy down hard on you,” she wrote, according to the documents.
On Tuesday, the arraignment and bail hearing for Momeni who was arrested April 13 was postponed to May 18. He faces murder charges.