Bob Lees devastated daughter could be seen comforting her mother as they attended the closing arguments in her fathers murder trial after he was stabbed to death in 2023 in San Francisco.
The CashApp founders death shocked the tech community whose members mourned the loss of an entrepreneur they remembered as charismatic and kind.
At one point during the proceedings, Scout Lee, 16, the eldest of Bobs two daughters, could be heard sobbing in the courtroom as harrowing video footage of her dying father was played to the jury.
Later she was seen walking along the corridor outside where the trial is taking place, as she and her mother held onto one another for support.
San Francisco prosecutors say Lee was stabbed three times by Nima Momeni after hearing that his drug dealing friend plied his younger sister, Khazar, with GHB and other drugs and sexually assaulted her.
One person called 911 pleading for help, saying somebody stabbed me, said Dane Reinstedt, assistant district attorney, adding that the other person never called police or told anyone what happened that night until the trial.
Defense attorneys say Lee, 43, was on a multi-day drug bender of cocaine and ketamine that made him agitated and violent, and that he attacked the defendant with a knife.
They said Momeni was forced to use his Krav Maga martial arts skills in the early morning hours of April 4, 2023, after making a bad joke that upset Lee - and did not realize he had stabbed him.
Scout Lee, Bob Lees daughter, seen with her arms wrapped around her mom Krista Lee, right, along with Tim Oliver Lee (Bobs brother) the Hall of Justice for the murder trial of Nima Momeni in San Francisco on Monday
Bob Lee was later found fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco on April 9 2023. He was later rushed to hospital where he died
San Francisco prosecutors say Nima Momeni, pictured, stabbed Lee three times after hearing that Lees drug dealer friend plied Momenis younger sister with GHB and other drugs and sexually assaulted her
Momeni faces 26 years to life if convicted of murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
The assistant district attorney mocked Momenis defense as he walked jurors through evidence from the trial that began on October 14.
He said Momeni was furious with Lee for introducing Khazar, with whom he was friends, to a drug dealer who gave her GHB, known as a date-rape drug, hours before the stabbing.
They say Momeni grilled Lee earlier in the evening about what happened to his sister at the drug dealers apartment, and sent text messages saying that the two men were creeps and sexual predators.
Momeni then met up with Lee at his sisters condo, took a paring knife from her kitchen set, drove Lee to a secluded area by the Bay Bridge and stabbed him three times, including a fatal blow through his heart, on a dimly lit street, Reinstedt said.
That protectiveness of the defendants little sister is what led to all of this, he said.
Momeni had learned “his little sister, the person he’s closest to in the world, was given date rape drugs and sexually assaulted. If that’s not a basis to kill someone, I don’t know what is, prosecutor Reinstedt said.
The puncture wounds were clean, clear and deep, and not the result of any kind of self-defense tussle, he said. 99% of the DNA on the handle of the knife belonged to Momeni, the prosecutor said.
The ex-wife of Cash App founder Bob Lee and one of his daughters, Scout, were seen at the trial
Tim Oliver Lee, left, the brother of Cash App founder Bob Lee, Krista Lee, right, Lees ex-wife, and one of their teenage daughters, 16-year-old Scout, could be seen leaving the courtroom
Tim Oliver Lee, left, brother of Cash App founder Bob Lee, is seen heading into the courtroom
Reinstedt played Lees 911 call from April 4, 2023, that recorded his final words.
Jurors could hear him begging an emergency dispatcher for help before he collapsed on Main Street in a pool of blood.
Lee’s ex-wife, his father, brother, and the couples two children could be seen in the court room listening, reports KRON4.
Lee’s youngest teenage child started to sob after surveillance footage of her dying father was played in court as he collapsed in a pool of his own blood.
On April 4, 2023, one person called 911 pleading for help, saying, somebody stabbed me. Telling us with his last words what happened that night. He begged for help, over and over and over. (Momeni) never called police.
He never told anyone about what happened under the Bay Bridge that night until a year and a half later, after he had an opportunity to review all the evidence, to tell you a carefully crafted story.
One person is dead. The other person sits in this courtroom. The evidence now proves hes a murderer, Reinstedt told jurors.
One person was stabbed. The other person suffered not one single injury, the prosecutor added.
One person was the passenger in the white BMW that drove to that quiet dark area with no witnesses.
He didnt choose the location they went to. (Momeni) was the driver. It was an area (under the bridge) he was familiar with, knowing it was as isolated as you could get in a city like San Francisco, knowing he had easy access to flee onto the freeway.
Mahnaz Tayarani, mother of Nima Momeni - who is charged with murder in Cash App founder Bob Lees stabbing death - walks out of the San Francisco courtroom
Prosecutors say Nima Momeni stabbed Lee three times after hearing that Lees drug dealer friend plied Momenis younger sister, Khazar, pictured, with GHB and sexually assaulted her
Prosecutor, Dane Reinstedt, the assistant district attorney can be seen in this courtroom sketch showing harrowing video of Bob Lees final moments as he lay dying outside an apartment building
The defendant’s claim is he acted in self-defense. Your job is to determine the facts, Reinstedt told the jury.
The trial has been emotionally taxing for family members of both men.
Mahnaz Tayarani, mother of the defendant, has sat on one side of the court room while Lees father, brother and ex-wife sat on the other.
The prosecution started its closing argument with a 911 call in which Lee could be heard asking repeatedly for help.
Surveillance video of Bob goofing around on his final night and autopsy photos of his wounds have been difficult to view, said Lees brother, Timothy Oliver Lee. He dismissed Momenis explanation of events as a fabrication.
Even if he was under the influence, he was still Bob. He was never aggressive. He was always a teddy bear and always a great guy, he said.
Surveillance video shows the two men leaving the posh condo of Khazar Momeni around 2am and getting into Momenis BMW.
Bob Lee, the CashApp creator was a father to two girls. Both are now teenagers with Scout, 16, seen right, attending court in San Francisco on Monday
Other surveillance then shows them getting out of the car in an isolated section of the city by the Bay Bridge.
Momeni testified he stopped his car after going over a pothole that caused Lee to spill the beer he was holding.
Momeni said he then cracked a joke suggesting Lee should spend his last night visiting the city with family instead of trying to find a strip club to keep the party going.
Thats when Lee suddenly pulled a knife, Momeni said. He said Lee later walked away, showing no signs he was injured.
I was scared for my life, Momeni said in earlier testimony that was at times rambling and contentious. I had to defend myself.
Lee was found staggering on a deserted downtown San Francisco street at 2:30am, dripping a trail of blood and calling for help. He later died at a hospital.
Jurors were allowed to ask questions and, through San Francisco Superior Court Judge Alexandra Gordon, asked why Momeni did not call police, either after Lees knife attack or after Momeni realized Lee had been stabbed to death.
A knife recovered from the area where Lee was stabbed showed Momeni´s DNA on the handle, but the defense said the handle should have been tested for Lees fingerprints.
The Rincon Hill neighborhood along Main Street near where Lee was fatally stabbed in San Francisco
Floral tributes left close to where Lee was fatally stabbed. Lees death stunned the tech community as fellow executives and engineers penned tributes to the charismatic entrepreneurs generosity and brilliance
Lees death stunned the tech community as fellow executives and engineers penned tributes to his generosity and brilliance.
He was chief product officer of cryptocurrency platform MobileCoin when he died.
Momeni, who lives in nearby Emeryville, California, has been in custody since his arrest days after Lee died at a San Francisco hospital.