The afternoon before the stabbing, Lee and Momeni’s sister Khazar Momeni had been doing drugs and drinking at the apartment of a drug dealer Lee knew, the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors argued that Momeni intended to fatally stab Lee over an argument about his sister, whom Lee knew, and her reported drug use.
A friend of Lee’s testified that Momeni then grilled Lee over the phone about what happened to his sister while at the drug dealer’s apartment.
Momeni said that Lee attacked him with a knife and that he defended himself and Lee was stabbed.
Prosecutors said Momeni was furious with Lee for introducing Khazar to the drug dealer who gave her GHB, known as a date-rape drug, hours before the stabbing.
