Surveillance video shows the Cash App founder using a knife to snort cocaine before he died, the defense claims

Suspect’s lawyers accused of killing Cash App founder Bob Lee During closing arguments in his murder trial in San Francisco, surveillance video was shown that they say shows Lee using a knife to snort cocaine hours before his death.

Lawyers representing Nim Momeni, a self-styled tech entrepreneur, claimed it was the same knife Lee used to confront his client over a bad joke in April 2023, leading to his fending off the attack in self-defense and Lee’s later death. from stab wounds, according to KTVU.

Defense lawyer Sam Zangeneh said Lee used the knife to “sniff and sniff” the cocaine during a bender that ended in a fight under bay bridge, the station reported.

“I’m telling you this, we’ve sized it, we’ve taken it apart, he’s the exact same shape, size as the knife that was found outside the Caltrans parking lot. It’s a knife!” Zangene said outside court on Tuesday.

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The case is expected to go before a jury on Wednesday.

Prosecutors, who made their closing arguments Monday, say Momeni planned an attack after learning that the tech mogul had introduced his younger sister to a drug dealer who, she said, gave her GHB and other drugs and then sexually assaulted her in his apartment.

They say Momeni lured Lee to an isolated spot near the creek bridge, stabbed him three times with a knife from his sister’s kitchen set and drove off in his car.

Momeni, 40, faces 26 years to life in prison if convicted.

The surveillance video shows how two men on April 4, 2023 around At 2 am, he leaves the defendant’s sister Khazar Momeni’s apartment and gets into Momeni’s BMW.

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Other surveillance footage then shows them getting out of the car near the bay bridge where the stabbing happened.

At 2:30 a.m., Lee was found wandering a deserted downtown San Francisco street, trailing blood and calling for help. He later died in hospital.

Momeni testified during the trial that he stopped his car near the creek bridge after driving over a pothole that caused Lee to spill the beer he was holding.

“I made a bad joke. I said if it was my last night on the town, I’d go with my family instead of going to strip clubs. That moved him. He just exploded. He went from zero to a hundred in front of me,” Momeni said.

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However, prosecutors have ridiculed Momeni’s story, saying he never called police to report Lee’s alleged assault, or even after learning Lee had died of stab wounds on the street where he had last seen him.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.