Mike Masnick ✅Apr 13, 2023

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/

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local is told that San Francisco police this morning arrested a suspect, Nima Momeni, in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee.

Mission Local
Show threadBrian Edwards-TiekertApr 13, 2023
@mmasnick In about 60 seconds my brain went from "I wonder how many people will retract their SF crime takes in light of this news" to "I wonder how many people will keep citing this killing as evidence of dystopic street violence, facts be damned"
Show threadNeil
@bedwardstiek @mmasnick first comment under the article bears this out
Apr 14, 2023 at 12:26amWeb