It happened at 2:35 Tuesday morning. Absolutely horrific.

Bob Lee, founder of Cash App and the former chief technology officer of Square, was identified as the man stabbed to death early Tuesday morning near downtown San Francisco, according to his current employer, cryptocurrency startup MobileCoin.

Officers responded at about 2:35 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the 300 block of Main Street in the city’s Rincon Hill neighborhood and arrived to find the victim, who was taken to a hospital and succumbed to his injuries there, police said.

Ugly streets they have there and getting uglier all the time.

…San Francisco has been grappling with an apparent uptick in crime as it still attempts to bounce back from the pandemic. Preliminary police data reports 12 homicides in San Francisco this year, an uptick of 20% compared to the same time period in the previous year. In total, there were 56 homicides in San Francisco in 2022, which is the exact same number of homicides the city saw in 2021.

Imagine having an amazing career, building a company that supports your city and citizens – only to be violently killed in a city that abandoned enforcement and forces its citizens to be defenseless. How #Sanfran politicians sleep at night is beyond me. https://t.co/ETTl8uzgJL

— Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) April 5, 2023

I don’t know that it’s necessarily the San Fran politicians who should be the only ones losing sleep. They don’t get their jobs through coup d’etats. They’re elected. That kind of means the people suffering the ravages permitted and sanctioned by politicians in office put them there and do little to nothing about it when they have a chance to change direction.

Why is collective misery the only option in the Progressive mindset?

I'm angry and sad. We cannot tolerate violent crime in the city and must remove the elected officials who got us here with their pro-crime and anti-police policies. Ideologues like @DeanPreston, @conniechansf, and @HillaryRonen must go. https://t.co/mgey27v6fk

— Steven Buss 🥑 🌐 (@sbuss) April 5, 2023

Even Lee had recently moved to Miami from San Francisco. He was only back for a visit to his former home when this happened.

I’ll be in SF this weekend 🤷‍♂️. How are you not in Miami yet?

— Bob Lee (@crazybob) March 9, 2023

He apparently felt comfortable enough knowing the area after all those years that he felt safe that evening.

…While violent crime in San Francisco actually declined by 14% from 2019 to 2022, the slaying inflamed fear and outcries about crime in the city, including social media messages from high-profile tech world figures such as Elon Musk, as well as others who knew Lee.

“Many people I know have been severely assaulted,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post early Wednesday morning. “Violent crime in SF is horrific and even if attackers are caught, they are often released immediately.”

Another friend wrote on Twitter that he learned Lee was killed while walking in the city. Lee was apparently visiting San Francisco from Miami after moving there recently, according to friends and social media posts. He previously lived in Mill Valley, but sold his home for $4.4 million last year.

“He was in the ‘good’ part of the city and appeared to have been targeted in a random mugging/attack,” wrote UFC/MMA fighter Jake Shields.

That’s when you really start to hear the squawking – when what everyone else is putting up with eventually arrives on the “good part” of the city’s door stoops, and those well-to-do-types are shocked to their very core how truly vile it is.

San Fran, LA, Chicago, New York, and a host of other Dem-controlled cities have become deadly for productive, law-abiding citizens. No use hoping for change as long as residents continue to vote in people who keep making things worse. https://t.co/aGbgwBL1zL

— David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) April 5, 2023

Now, they don’t connect the disintegration of living standards and public safety to anyone or anything they’ve ever believed in or voted for – they just know they want it gone. And the political firepower behind the “good section of the city” is considerable when they start a ruckus.

Our sincere condolences to Mr. Lee’s family. By all accounts, he truly sounds like he was an awfully nice guy, a good man, and this is an abomination.

But sadly, it’s just one more abomination to add to San Francisco’s tally, as opposed to the aberration/ghastly and swiftly solved rarity that it should be.