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Fear, grief after killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee: 'Everybody is talking about it'

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"You have people talking about carrying pepper spray," a local employee said. A day after Cash App Founder Bob Lee was killed in San Francisco, a customer walked into a cafe blocks away from the crime scene and began to cry. "She was looking at our pastry case and I did my normal, 'Hey how is it going?'" said Tommy Balcom, an employee at Philz Coffee, told ABC News. "I haven't seen that look in anybody's eyes, ever -- someone with so much grief." The customer, who said she had been a close friend of Lee's, asked Balcom: "'Can you let me know everything will be OK?'" he said. "I said, 'Of course, what can I do to help?' I had no idea what she was talking about.'" Balcom soon learned about Lee, who died of "apparent stab wounds" sustained early Tuesday morning in the San Francisco neighborhood of Rincon Hill, the San Francisco Police Department said. Bob Lee, Cash App founder and ...