Tragic video shows dying Cash App founder Bob Lee was ignored by bystanders as he begged for help after being stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday.
Before succumbing to his injuries, the 43-year-old chief product officer of MobileCoin walked up to a parked car that had its hazard flashers on to try to get help, according to surveillance footage obtained by the San Francisco Standard.
Footage showed Lee lifted his shirt to show the driver his two stab wounds — but collapsed to the ground as the car drove off.
After being stranded by the driver, Lee staggered over to a nearby apartment building, only to collapse at its front door, CCTV footage shared by the Daily Mail showed.
Unfortunately, the front desk was unmanned and the lobby empty when the dying father slumped to the ground.
The heavily bleeding tech giant struggled to crawl onto his hands and knees, where he fumbled with his phone until the headlights of a passing car rushed in front of the building.
Lee raised one arm in an attempt to flag down the car and jumped back onto his feet, but the driver sped away.
Lee, drenched in blood and pale in the face, walks out of the frame, leaving drops of blood on the pavement.
Lee called 911 at 2:34 a.m. and pleaded for help, yelling to dispatchers that he had been stabbed and needed to go to the hospital.
Police arrived less than six minutes later and found Lee unconscious with two stab wounds to the chest.
He was rushed to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died. Police had not announced any arrests or named any suspects in the stabbing as of Thursday morning.
The brutal fatal stabbing in the city’s downtown Rincon Hill neighborhood, a well-to-do area in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district, left a trail of blood along the sidewalk outside the building where Lee collapsed, according to the Standard.
Police have not said whether the stabbing was a random or targeted attack.
During a Police Commission meeting Wednesday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said he had “nothing to share yet.”
“We don’t want to be premature and definitely we don’t have to speculate so we are going to be thoughtful about following the evidence and we’ll put out what we’ll put out as soon as we can,” Scott said.
Lee, who was a father of two and a longtime Bay Area resident, had recently moved back to Miami because he felt San Francisco was “deteriorating,” his friend Jake Shields said.
Shields revealed Lee was attacked while he was walking.
“He was in the ‘good’ part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack,” Shields tweeted.
His death sparked outrage within the tech industry and prompted giants like Elon Musk to express concern over public safety in the city.
“Many people I know have been severely assaulted,” Musk tweeted. “Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.”
Musk also asked San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins if the city was “taking stronger action to incarcerate repeat offenders.”
Lee had served as the chief product officer of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency company MobileCoin since November 2021.