SANTEE — A woman who was stabbed to death in her Santee home on Sunday has been identified as Mary Louise Shojai, a 37-year employee at San Diego State University.
SDSU officials said Wednesday that Shojai, 66, was director of student disability services for several years.
Mary Louise Shojai — Courtesy San Diego State University
Paul Carl Tomasini, 64, a Santee handyman acquainted with Shojai, was found at her home with a stab wound and was arrested hours later on suspicion of murder, sheriff’s officials said.
Investigators are trying to determine whether there was a romantic relationship between the two, as some neighbors had said, sheriff’s Capt. Duncan Fraser said Wednesday.
Shojai was praised on a San Diego State website as a dedicated professional and a gentle, fun-loving person.
“She was an amazing advocate for diversity and inclusion,” Aaron Bruce, SDSU’s chief diversity officer, said on the site. “Every day, Mary worked to insure that the rights of all students were respected and supported.”
SDSU officials said Shojai secured and administered multimillion-dollar grants for disability services. She also was described as an accomplished cellist and organist who was not above playing Bach on kazoo at a recent holiday party.
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