“do you realize how specifically you have to know the right person for an individual in the intel community to even remotely come close to knowing anything similar to this?”

you don’t know anything

“it's very highly likely that you're with some dweeb”

here comes the angry ad hominem projection

did you seriously just create a new account just to respond to these posts?

I'm fairly certain they did.

I imagine even if the person doesn't know the specifics of the case, they can take a look at the police report and make a professional assessment on whether it was a random attack or a hit. It's also possible the phrasing resulted in a miscommunication between the "intelligence professional" and the person upthread (they could have said it was intentional, and Bob's grieving friend referred to that as a hit)

In almost every random stabbing, the person doing it is arrested, no? To be clear, I'm talking about random, unplanned, and unmotivated stabbings, not premeditated robberies and other similar crimes.

very sensible, definitely can see your logic. thanks for sharing!

It also just occurred to me that there is no mention of a suspective motive in the report

    The police statement did not provide any details on the circumstances of the stabbing.

    “This is an open and active investigation. For that reason we are not releasing further information,” Officer Niccole Pacchetti, a public information officer, said in an email. “We will provide further details when they become available.”

If it was an obvious robbery, I would expect the police to be OK with mentioning that in their statement (in other words, saying valuables were taken and it looks like a somewhat random robbery).

And maybe his wallet/phone were taken, but if police thought it was an open-and-shut motive, I don't see why they wouldn't mention that.

If he was indeed the creator of Cash App, he could have been playing a part in the current SEC investigation:

https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/

The report was released just 2 weeks ago.

Not saying you're wrong to be doubtful, but I would imagine being connected in the same locality would get you closer to "the right person"

Forget I said anything. I made it up.

There was an interesting comment exchange on FT.com a few hours ago[1].

One person wrote:

> Lee’s former company, Block, is currently under investigation by the SEC after the app that he founded (Cash App) was alleged to have been facilitating money laundering. Wonder if there is a connection?

And another responded:

> A hitman isn't going to use a knife.

But when you think about it: if you didn't want something to look like a hit job, that's exactly what you would do – use a knife in downtown San Francisco at 2 AM – and nobody will be surprised.

Personally, I find it a little suspicious, that an important individual could have been murdered accidentally in a city with an average of 4 murders per month, just 2 weeks after the SEC opened an investigation into the platform he created[2].

Also, the place of the murder wasn't described as particularly dangerous at night by multiple locals[3][4].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/f5a27cff-2582-4172-87a4-2861c43c2...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/report-alleges-cash-app-frau...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35453269

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448995

Now you're getting it.

If you knew the kind of people that are my friend's neighbors. Basically you have the 0.01% of a country there, if you know people you know people, information reaches them way faster.