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Where does it indicate the identity of the decedent?

It was first reported here on Twitter (https://twitter.com/lucy_guo/status/1643451123230031872) -- I'm friends with a bunch of people at MobileCoin where he was working and unfortunately it is true. I only met Bob once but he was a great man.

(Trying to just be sad about his loss and not angry at what San Francisco has become, but it's hard.)

Tragic.

From tweets it appears that he had moved to Miami, came back to SF on a work trip for a day - and this happened.

That's even more depressing, can't even visit for a day without risking life (assuming it wasn't targeted). May he rest in peace.

Super sad, and I'm assuming that moving from SF to Miami was in part due to crime issue.

That wouldn’t make sense, Miami’s homicide rate is much higher than San Francisco’s.

Homicide rates aren’t relevant to a regular person. What matters is the probability of being a victim of a violent crime or a homicide when you weren’t involved in a criminal organization or weren’t already committing a crime.

Many cities with high homicide rates have them specifically because of gang activities and they don’t have any relevance to regular citizens.

Additionally, gun friendly states with “stand your ground” laws will have higher homicide rates just from self defense in robberies.

Tldr; homicide rate is meaningless to how safe you are as a bystander.

And given there are like 50 a year in a population of 800k+, it’s pretty unlikely.

That’s still a per capita rate, which is irrelevant.

“Stand your ground” laws don’t just increase the rate of homicides, they increase the rate of murder. Turns out that thugs are better at killing than civilians

Yeah, definitely not for literally any other possible reason, like say... escaping California's tax code.

There was a notable SF->Miami exodus during COVID, we don't need to attribute reasoning we don't know here.

SFGate reports that he lives in Mill Valley, though they may be wrong

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-kille...

The tweet has been deleted, unfortunately.

Jake Shields says that it was someone reputable in the tech industry and a close friend of his who was killed. And that the family doesn't want to reveal the name yet.[1][2]

Additionally, if you search through Jake Shield's Twitter feed, you'll find instances where Bob Lee talked to him. [3][4]

UPDATE: Jake Shields confirms it was Bob Lee. [5]

[1] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164344881917319577...

[2] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164346184739026124...

[3] https://twitter.com/crazybob/status/1538245201734406144?s=20

[4] https://twitter.com/crazybob/status/1587914051715227652?s=20

[5] https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164347000156601548...

It doesn't, but the poster is a reputable account. I have to assume this is correct.

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