Bob Lee's killing in San Francisco was 12th murder in area this year

San Francisco Police Officers Association’s vice president, Lt.
Tracy McCray, has said the neighborhood where Cash App founder Bob Lee was murdered has already witnessed at least 12 homicides this year alone. The city’s Southern and Tenderloin Districts which have experienced rising rates this year have seen four stabbing incidents in the last week alone, including Lee’s.McCray says the police force is understaffed and the entire neighborhood is now at a tipping point. ‘We are short staffed so just our presence in patrolling is severely lacking right now.

To see a certain uptick in crime is to be expected but I think we are now at a precipice where we could go one way or the other,’ McCray said. Lee, 43, was stabbed several times in the chest as he walked in the city’s Rincon Hill neighborhood at 2:35am, which is located in the Southern District, close to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.  San Francisco Police Officers Association’s vice president, Lt.

Tracy McCray, has said the neighborhood where Cash App founder Bob Lee was murdered is ‘severely lacking’ when it comes to police patrols and has already witnessed at least 12 homicides this year alone Tech executive and investor Bob Lee helped create Android and Cash App who was stabbed to death on Tuesday Lee was ignored by passersby, who did not help him as he bled out and collapsed to the ground.Although the Rincon area, where Lee was killed, is generally quiet, residents and visitors alike have shared concern that they could easily become targets. Some locals have noted how the area, which has multi-million dollar high-rise apartments, is where tech industry moguls, celebrities, and Golden State Warriors basketball team members have been known to live. But downtown San Francisco has remained largely-deserted post-pandemic, and is n now famed for open drug abuse and violence, thanks to the progressive city’s permissive policies.  The brutal killing in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s staunchly Democrat electoral district has ignited concern over public safety and soaring homelessness in the city as a whole.So far this year there have been 39 murders while the San Francisco Police Department buckles under a shortfall of 541 officers.Police statistics for the Southern District and Rincon Hill area specifically show robberies to have increased by around 14 percent compared to last year, with 12 homicides in the area between January and April 2.  San Francisco Police Lieutenant Tracy McCray, currently the President of the San Francisco Police Officers Association DailyMail.com revealed harrowing surveillance footage that captured the dying tech mogul’s final moments as he staggered towards an apartment building on 403 Main shortly after being stabbed in San Francisco in the early morning hours of Tuesday The 43-year-old appears disoriented and collapses in front of The Portside apartment complex on 403 Main Street in Rincon Hill  At one point, Lee attempts to get a passing car’s attention by desperately waving his hand to no avail He is then seen texting frantically in an apparent attempt to seek help CCTV footage from a second camera inside the lobby shows Lee stumbling towards the entrance of the building before falling over Violent crimes across San Francisco have also risen 7.5 percent over the past three years, with property crime surging 20.7 percent over the same period. Homicides increased 36.6 percent.Locals told DailyMail.com they blamed the ‘soft-on-crime’ progressive policies brought in by the likes of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was tossed from office in a recall election last year. ‘It’s too liberal.

Too much. And we’re paying for it,’ said one. ‘Repeat offenders are back out on the streets in a heartbeat and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re scared.’  Bob Lee, pictured with his wife Krista and two daughters, had decided to stay an extra day in San Francisco on a business trip.

He had recently moved out of the city and relocated to Miami because of San Fran’s soaring crime  Well wishers have since laid flowers and sympathy messages by a tree outside the building  Flowers and cards left as people paying tribute to Bob Lee near the Portside apartment building in San Francisco, CaliforniaFather-of-two Lee relocated from San Francisco to Miami last year because he was worried about the West Coast city’s soaring crime rate and rampant homelessness, according to friends. He returned on a business trip and was attacked while walking through the swish neighborhood where residents have become so wary of violent robberies that they now pay for private security patrols. None were close by at the time of Lee’s stabbing. reveals Lee, chief product officer at Crypto enthusiasts firm MobileCoin, staggering along Main Street and trying to flag down a passing car at the intersection with Harrison Street. When the motorist shockingly drives off without helping, Lee stumbles 70 yards back down Main towards the Portside luxury apartment complex — but collapses as he reaches for the door entry system.Bloodied and dazed, Lee was able to ring cops himself to say he’d been stabbed but couldn’t give his precise location. First responders reached the fading tech exec within six minutes but by then it was too late.’The victim was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Despite efforts by first responders and medical personnel, the victim succumbed to his injuries,’ the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. A kitchen knife with a 4-inch blade was found in a parking lot across the street, according to ABC7 News.
Cops are yet to make any arrests. ‘This is all very fluid. It’s still an active and open investigation,’ a police spokesman added. ‘We want to assure everyone that investigators are working diligently and doing the best they can to bring justice for Mr.

Lee and his loved ones.’ Lee’s shocking murder has drawn attention to San Francisco growing crime and homelessness problem, which some critics have blamed on the city’s progressive ‘anti-law enforcement’ policies Residents have complained of brazen shoplifting and rampant fentanyl use becoming commonplace in the city thanks to its soft stance on drugs and crime  ‘Zombie-like’ drug addicts are pictured using and being strung-out on drugs in Downtown San Francisco on Thursday Mayor London Breed insisted this week the city was ‘prioritizing public safety’ and would be dipping into a $27million budget supplemental, passed last month, to hire more cops.Breed was one of the first mayors in America to implement the ‘defund the police’ approach demanded by Black Lives Matter supporters in the wake of the George Floyd’s death.She ‘reallocated’ $120million from the police budget in 2021 but has reversed course several times since after complaints of brazen shoplifting and rampant fentanyl use in the City by the Bay.Another of Breed’s failed liberal experiments, an open-air drug market in the downtown Tenderloin District, was supposed to draw addicts away from the rest of the city and cut overdose deaths.

It was ditched after less than a year.San Francisco, like many progressive California cities, has also seen an explosion in homelessness, with an estimated 8,000 recorded living rough or in shelters in 2022.The toll on the community was laid bare when DailyMail.com visited last August and captured shocking images of homeless people passing out on drugs and living in unthinkable squalor in a city where a one-bed apartment will set you back at least $3,000 per month.  Shown is the Rincon Hill neighborhood along Main Street near where Bob Lee was fatally stabbed in San Francisco A general view of the  Portside apartment complex on Main St in Rincon Hill, where officers later arrived to find a fatally wounded Lee on the ground unconsciousLee, dubbed ‘Crazy Bob’ by friends, was an active investor in numerous companies, such as SpaceX, Clubhouse and Figma. Shaken friends and colleagues paid tribute to him, with Joshua Goldbard, MobileCoin’s founder, saying: ‘My heart is broken tonight’. Co-Founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey added: ‘It’s real.

Getting calls. Heartbreaking. Bob was instrumental to Square and Cash App.’ Lee was chief technology officer at Square, recently renamed Block, when it developed and launched Square Cash in 2013. The brand grew into Cash App, with tens of millions of users in the US and the UK.Police are urging anyone with information to come forward by calling the SFPD tip-line on 415-575-4444.