Cash App founder Bob Lee who was brutally stabbed to death in San Francisco allegedly visited the home of a suspected drug dealer in the run up to his death, according to reports.
Bob Lee was stabbed to death in the early hours of April 4, having allegedly been led to a 'secluded' spot by his killer before the attack.
It's thought he visited the dealer's apartment with the sister of the man accused of his murder, 38-year-old Nima Momeni, the night of his death.
Momeni had questioned Mr Lee with regards to his sister, Khazar Momeni, asking if she had been doing "anything inappropriate" or any drugs, according to prosecutors. It happened after she left the apartment on Mission Street near Van Ness Avenue on April 3.
The apartment at that address is reportedly home to a man who was convicted last year of felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell.
Police had previously arrested the occupant for having an alleged range of substances, including meth, cocaine, ecstasy, acid and magic mushrooms.
There have been claims that Khazar was involved with Lee, a dad of two, in a romantic sense, despite her being married to plastic surgeon Dino Elyassnia.
Friends have also claimed she had a drug problem, with one telling the San Francisco Standard Khazar, known to friends as 'Tina', may have used drugs so often it worried her brother and caused arguments with friends.
Samira Kuduzovic, a friend of siblings Khazar and Nima, said the pair were close and spent time together with Nima living in Emeryville and Khazar in San Francisco.
"He was always playing big brother, always looking after her", Kuduzovic told the San Francisco Standard.
She said Nima Momeni told her not to give her sister drugs, and she actually had to write to Khazar's husband to make Khazar stop calling her.
"She was basically asking me to buy drugs with my money," Kuduzovic explained.
In the evening running up to the murder, Bob Lee, Khazar Momeni, the suspected drug dealer and an unidentified friend were said to be in the apartment in Mission Street.
During raid's of the Mission Street occupant's previous addresses, police apparently found an array of drugs including GBL, a compound similar to GHB, nitrous oxide, MDMA and LSD, according to court documents.
Prosecutors have described him as "deeply engaged in the trafficking of controlled substances".
Prosecutors say that after leaving the apartment, Mr Lee went to the hotel he was staying at while Khazar Momeni went home to the Millennium Tower.
At some point later on in the evening, Nima Momeni allegedly became upset at Mr Lee, questioning him about "inappropriate conduct" by his sister and drug use. Bob Lee assured Momeni that nothing inappropriate had happened.
Khazar Momeni then apparently sent Mr Lee a message about the confrontation. The text, recovered from Bob Lee's phone according to prosecutors, read: "Just wanted to make sure your [sic] doing ok Cause I know nima came wayyyyyy down hard on you and thank you for being such a classy man and handling it with class Love you Selfish p****s."
According to prosecutors, both Bob Lee and Nima Momeni ended up at the Millennium Tower that night.
Court documents show police to have obtained surveillance footage that captured the pair leaving together and getting into Momeni's BMW before driving off.
Video shows the BMW driving to a secluded area where the two men got out of the car. It also apparently shows Momeni "moved toward" Mr Lee before the BMW drove away from the scene at high speed.
Prosecutors called the killing "planned and deliberate" in a court document, saying the Cash App founder had been left to "slowly die."
They allege Momeni drove Mr Lee to a dark and secluded spot before attacking him with a kitchen knife. Bob Lee was stabbed three times, including once in the heart.
Momeni then apparently sped away, and "left the victim to slowly die", according to court documents. Police found a knife with a four-inch blade at the scene.
Momeni was set to be arraigned in a San Francisco courtroom on Tuesday, April 25 but this has now been delayed one week, according to CNN.
