Bob Lee killing suspect Nima Momeni is being monitored whereas in jail, however suspect’s lawyer says calling it ‘suicide watch’ is ‘dramatic’
- Nima Momeni is in jail on a homicide cost within the stabbing of Money App founder Bob Lee.
- His lawyer advised Insider that Momeni was positioned “in a security protocol.”
Nima Momeni, the 38-year-old tech marketing consultant who faces a homicide cost within the deadly stabbing of Money App creator Bob Lee, is on suicide watch, although his lawyer mentioned calling it so is “dramatic.”
Momeni was arrested on April 13 in Emeryville, a metropolis east of San Francisco County, greater than every week after Lee was fatally stabbed on an early Tuesday morning in San Francisco. Prosecutors alleged Momeni carried out a “deliberate and deliberate assault,” stabbing Lee with a kitchen knife, after an argument pertaining to Momeni’s sister, court docket paperwork confirmed.
Momeni is being held in jail till his arraignment, which was delayed on April 14 as a result of his lawyer Paula Canny was on trip. The subsequent listening to is scheduled for April 25.
“San Francisco County Sheriff’s Division has a normal security protocol that any individual with no prison historical past who’s arrested in a severe high-profile case is positioned in a security protocol,” Canny advised Insider in an electronic mail. “Some name the protocols suicide watch — that’s dramatic but it surely’s a security protocol.”
A spokesperson for the San Francisco Sheriff’s Workplace advised Insider that it is common for high-profile arrestees to be positioned on suicide watch, but it surely’s not a “arduous and quick rule.”
“Whether or not or not somebody is positioned underneath watch relies on the totality of the circumstances of their explicit case,” SFSO public info officer Kelvin Wu advised Insider.
Wu didn’t instantly reply to a follow-up inquiry on the circumstances that may have positioned Momeni underneath watch.
Lee was fatally stabbed on San Francisco road within the early morning of April 4. In line with Momeni’s charging paperwork, Lee spent his closing hours ingesting with a bunch of mates, together with the suspect’s sister, Khazar. Previous to the stabbing, Lee was staying at 1 Resort San Francisco, only a few blocks from Khazar’s condominium. A resort supervisor declined to remark when approached by Insider.
Khazar’s associate, Dino Elyassnia, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Lee’s demise sparked outrage towards the state of crime and security within the metropolis, together with from Elon Musk, whose feedback had been later condemned by the town’s district lawyer Brooke Jenkins.
“Whereas we aren’t going to launch any further information at the moment, I need to level out that reckless and irresponsible statements like these contained in Mr. Musk’s tweet that assumes incorrect circumstances about Mr. Lee’s demise serve to mislead the world of their notion of San Francisco and in addition negatively impression the pursuit of justice for victims of crimes because it spreads misinformation at a time when the police try to unravel a really troublesome case,” Jenkins mentioned within the convention on April 13.