An arrest has been made in last week's San Francisco slaying of Bob Lee, chief product officer of crypto startup MobileCoin Inc. and a well known figure in Silicon Valley, according to a local news reports.
The San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the nearby city of Emeryville in the April 4 stabbing of Lee, and the suspect also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew, Mission Local reported, without identifying the source of its information.
Representatives of the police department and the city's district attorney declined to comment on the news reports. The police department scheduled a news conference at 12:30 pm local time to provide an update on the homicide investigation.
Lee's brother, Tim Oliver Lee, thanked police for "bringing this person to justice so quickly" in a social media post, as did San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents the district where Lee was killed.
Lee died after being stabbed multiple times in the middle of the night in a deserted area of San Francisco's downtown, in what the city's district attorney called a "senseless act of violence."
