So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.
Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/
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From the start, this felt to me like there was likely more to it, and I stayed out of the fray.
In an age of social media, the old journalism adage, write what you know, is wise for everyone to follow.
Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi, who also wrote the arrest writeup that you shared, did that from the start.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-crazy-bob-mobilecoin-san-francisco-homicide/
Eskenazi is a local treasure. And Mission Local is on here at @MLNow
Robert Harold “Crazy Bob” Lee died on the pavement in the wee hours last Tuesday after being stabbed while he walked through an abandoned downtown street. Bob "Crazy Bob" Lee deserved better to be knifed while walking alone at 2:30 a.m. in downtown San Francisco — and then co-opted, in death, to push a bogus narrative about the city.
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