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Tributes were paid to Bob Lee, who founded the fashionable Cash App and worked for MobileCoin
Police successful San Francisco person arrested a idiosyncratic successful transportation with the fatal stabbing of Cash App laminitis Bob Lee.
Police recovered Mr Lee, 43, unconscious with stab wounds connected 4 April adjacent San Francisco's metropolis centre. He aboriginal died successful infirmary from his injuries.
Mr Lee was successful San Francisco for a acme and had reportedly stayed to sojourn friends earlier his death.
The apprehension was confirmed to BBC News by Aaron Peskin, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Police person not yet confirmed the individuality of the fishy successful Mr Lee's killing.
Local reports suggested the fishy is simply a laminitis of an IT institution and that helium and Mr Lee knew each other.
Mission Local, a determination quality outlet, identified the fishy arsenic idiosyncratic who works successful the tech manufacture successful San Francisco.
Citing constabulary sources, the study stated that Mr Lee and the fishy were successful a conveyance unneurotic and had an altercation earlier Mr Lee was stabbed.
At his clip of death, Mr Lee was the main merchandise serviceman of the cryptocurrency institution MobileCoin.
He is besides credited for founding Cash App, a smartphone-based outgo app that allows person-to-person wealth transfers. The app is fashionable successful the US and is worthy $40bn (£32bn), according to Forbes.
Mr Lee's decease garnered galore tributes from notable figures successful the US tech industry.
It besides ignited disapproval against authorities successful San Francisco for their effect to the city's precocious complaint of convulsive crime.
There were 56 homicides successful San Francisco successful 2021 and 2022, and preliminary constabulary information shows determination person been 13 homicides truthful acold this year.
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