did some douche really just suggest Lee deserved to be stabbed because he was out with friends and returning to his hotel at 2am? what a disgusting nation this has become
Bob Lee: Shocking video appears to show onlookers ignore dying Cash App founder as he begs for help
Clutching one side of his body where he is bleeding heavily from stab wounds,
tech executive Bob Lee appears to approach a parked car in urgent need of medical care.
The 43-year-old father of two lifts his shirt to show the driver
the extent of his injuries, but rather than help, the motorist speeds off.
Lee’s last tragic moments as he stumbled down Main St in San Francisco’s downtown district at 2.30am on Tuesday in search of help were captured on surveillance footage and viewed by journalists from
The San Francisco Standard.
The footage initially shows Lee walking along a deserted sidewalk on Main St with his mobile phone in one hand and holding his side with the other,
The Standard reports.
The Cash App founder then crosses at the intersection with Harrison St toward where a white Toyota Camry with flashing lights is parked.
The footage reportedly shows Lee lift up his shirt in a plea for help, and then fall to the ground as the driver pulls away.
Lee then gets back to his feet and starts to retraces his steps along Main St in the direction of the Bay Bridge before collapsing again outside of the Portside apartment building at 403 Main St.
The Standard reported that it witnessed staff members cleaning what appeared to be blood from the side of the building on Wednesday.
Friends of Lee, who was known as “Crazy Bob”, have speculated that the killing was a random attack in a city where an increase in muggings and robberies
led to the recall of progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin last year.
Police are yet to say whether they believe it was a targeted killing.
The senseless murder has roiled San Francisco’s tech community, where Mr Lee was a well-known and popular figure due to his two decades of work at Google, as Square chief technology officer, as MobileCoin chief product officer and as an angel investor and serial entrepreneur.
Lee had moved to Miami late last year but was in town for the MobileCoin leadership summit last week, and was staying a few nights extra to see friends. Longtime friend Doug Dalton met Lee years ago when they were both software engineers just starting their careers. Dalton said he area he was found suggests he would have been walking back to his hotel.