Shawn Wen

I just kind of sat in the car looking out the window and hoping that I was going to get a call saying, oops, wrong guy, never mind, it was some other blonde dude.

When that call didn't come, she went inside to see her kids.

So I walked upstairs to their rooms and said...

I need to tell you that something happened to Dad last night.

And he was taken to the hospital.

Like, I didn't really know how to express to my children, like, what words that you're supposed to use.

And I just remember looking at Scout, who's our 15-year-old.

The initial wave of news stories are pretty bare bones.

They mention Bob's name and the fact that he was killed, but they don't mention a suspect or a weapon.

Then the story changes.

At 8.01 p.m., the night of April 4th, only 18 hours after Bob was stabbed, a retired MMA fighter named Jake Shields goes on Twitter and posts, quote, "'I just found out that my good friend was killed last night while walking in San Francisco.'"

He was in the good part of town and appears to have been targeted in a random mugging slash attack.

Fuck San Francisco.

Nowadays, Jake is a podcast host.

He's interviewed Holocaust deniers and white nationalists.

But at the time, he was simply a semi-famous guy on Twitter.

Soon, more voices join in, many identifying as venture capitalists and tech founders.

We've trimmed these tweets for length.

RIP at Crazy Bob.

This is fucking horrific.