A workplace shooting on the morning of August 22, 2025, killed 27-year-old Tahj Johnson while he was working a shift aboard a U.S. Navy vessel under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi. First responders found Johnson with multiple gunshot wounds; the Jackson County coroner later confirmed his death. The shipyard went into immediate lockdown as law enforcement secured the facility and searched for the suspect.

Investigators focused on a fellow employee, 25-year-old Curtis James Jr., also a painter at the shipyard. Authorities located and arrested James without incident roughly ninety minutes after the initial reports; he was charged with murder and held without bond at the Jackson County Adult Detention Center. Reports say the shooting arose from a dispute between the two men earlier in the week, with some accounts alleging the conflict involved an affair; investigators also began looking into James in connection with the death of his wife, who was found dead at her home the same day.

Tahj Johnson is remembered by coworkers as social and family-oriented. Does anyone who worked at Ingalls that day have details about the earlier dispute or what led to the shooting?