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SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - As questions circulate about the circumstances that may have led 39-year-old postal worker Julius Tartt to kill his supervisor and himself in late November, members of the local community gathered to remember both of their fallen friends.
A group met on Bryant Street on Wednesday night to remember Genevieve Paez and Julius Tartt, two postal workers who died in late November.
“It’s a simple vigil, to show solidarity for our fallen carriers, all in the spirit of healing,” said Ray Fong, spokesman for the National Association of Letter Carriers.
Genevieve Paez, 53, was found outside her Tioga Avenue home on the morning of Nov. 28, dead of a single gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Tartt was found dead the next day in Livermore of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
According to San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Steve Mannina, homicide investigators believe that Tartt killed Paez before taking his own life.
“They have ruled conclusively that the gun used in the Livermore suicide was the same gun used in the shooting,” Mannina said.
Although officers previously said there may have been a disciplinary action by Paez against Tartt, Mannina said there was no information on a possible motive in the murder.
Paez had been a postal worker for 20 years and Tartt had spent his entire 18-year career working in the Bayview postal annex.
Fong said they did not meet to discuss the tragedy or answer questions, but simply to come together as a community and celebrate the lives of two of their own.
“It’s for us to remember their lives, no drama, we’re not going to talk about what happened,” Fong said.
