By Veronica Miracle and Jeffrey Kopp, CNN
(CNN) — The suspect in the stabbing loss of life of CashApp founder Bob Lee was additionally accused of stabbing two youngsters in 2005, in line with paperwork uncovered by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Nima Momeni, 38, is accused of fatally stabbing Lee in April in San Francisco’s Rincon Hill neighborhood. He pleaded not responsible in Might.
Momeni, who was 20 years outdated on the time, was investigated however not charged for stabbing a 19-year-old and 16-year-old throughout a attainable dispute over medicine, in line with a police report from the Albany, California, police division obtained by the Chronicle. The police report revealed the accidents to the 2 teenagers have been minor and the altercation could have began when the 16-year-old attacked Momeni.
The report says Momeni was launched as a consequence of a scarcity of proof and conflicting statements. The Chronicle reviews that police labeled Momeni as each a possible suspect and sufferer and had listed potential prices of assault with a lethal weapon, possession of medication and possession of medication with the intent to promote. Finally, he was by no means charged within the case.
CNN has submitted a request for the police report. CNN additionally reached out to Momeni’s lawyer for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
Momeni was additionally cited however not charged in a 2022 home battery incident, in line with an April report from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Momeni has been charged with homicide in Lee’s April 4 killing.
An post-mortem report confirmed Lee, the 43-year-old cellular cost app founder, sustained knife wounds that pierced his coronary heart and lung.
In keeping with San Francisco District Lawyer Brooke Jenkins, Lee and Momeni knew one another and have been collectively all through the night main as much as the killing. Prosecutors say surveillance footage captured the killing and the occasions beforehand.
Momeni’s protection lawyer has argued that Lee’s loss of life was “a mixture of an accident and self-defense” with “no premeditation or deliberation.”
Jenkins has stated prosecutors imagine the killing was intentional and stand by the homicide cost.
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CNN’s Zoe Sottile contributed to this report