The jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the man accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death in April 2023.

That verdict will be read Tuesday morning in a San Francisco courtroom.

Jurors deliberated for nearly seven days on whether to convict Momeni of murder – or a lesser charge. They made their decision behind closed doors this afternoon, and the jury departed around 4 p.m. after lawyers for both sides were called to receive the message.

The trial began on October 14th. The jury has the option of unanimously convicting or acquitting Momeni of first-degree murder. If they chose to acquit him, they were instructed by the judge to first consider second-degree murder, then voluntary manslaughter, and then involuntary manslaughter. If convicted of either murder charge, he could face life in prison.

The deliberations had dragged on. On Thursday, tensions appeared to be rising among the 12-member jury, with one juror wringing his hands and apparently wiping tears from his eyes during a break in the courthouse hallway.

Momeni is accused of murdering Lee, a well-known technology executive, on a dark street near the Bay Bridge after the two men left Momeni’s sister’s home in the Millennium Tower. Prosecutors say Momeni lured Lee there to kill him and brought a kitchen knife from his sister’s kitchen.

Momeni, meanwhile, advocates self-defense.

Surveillance cameras showed Momeni and Lee driving away in Momeni’s white BMW at around 2 a.m. on April 4, 2023. Shortly afterwards, blurry camera footage shows the two standing in front of the BMW on Main Street and Momeni apparently attacking Lee, although it is unclear what happened.

Then the two men separated. Lee walked down the street and later called 911 while Momeni drove away from the scene in his car.

Lee was found bleeding and suffering from three stab wounds, one of which was in the heart. Momeni, who testified in his own defense that Lee first attacked him with a knife, said he had no idea Lee was injured until he read about Lee’s death in the news.

Deliberations lasted much longer than expected, and jurors decided to stay past last week’s hard deadline to further discuss the case.