Tech executive Bob Lee, who founded the mobile payment service Cash App, was killed in a stabbing in San Francisco, according to authorities and media reports.
Police responded at about 2:35 a.m. Pacific time Tuesday to a report of a stabbing on Main Street in the Rincon Hill neighborhood, near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the San Francisco Police Department said in a news release. Officers found a 43-year-old man suffering from stab wounds and administered aid.
The killing reignited concerns from some high-profile figures over public safety in San Francisco, where a progressive district attorney who had become a lightning rod for controversies over crime and homelessness was recalled by voters last year. His replacement, Brooke Jenkins, said upon her appointment that San Francisco was “at a tipping point.”
“Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately,” Musk tweeted. Lee’s friend, mixed-martial artist Jake Shields, wrote on Twitter that Lee “was in the ‘good’ part of the city” when he was stabbed, on a block near luxury condominium complexes and many office buildings, including Salesforce Tower and Google’s San Francisco offices.
The Police Department has investigated 12 homicides so far this year, compared with 10 during the same time period last year, according to crime statistics.
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