Christopher Marcell Johnson, 37, was fatally shot in the late afternoon of July 15, 2020, in a parking lot in the 2100 block of Clay Street behind the Boston Fish Supreme restaurant in Vicksburg. Officers responding to a report of a man shot in the chest found Johnson on the ground beside a vehicle; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect, 37-year-old Talisha Butler, described as a friend of Johnson. Butler contacted police and reported that she had shot him. She was located as a passenger in a car on Washington Street, brought to the Vicksburg Police Department for interview, and arrested on a murder charge. Bond was initially set at $500,000 and later reduced to $50,000; the case was bound over to the Warren County Grand Jury.

The matter went to trial the week of June 2022. The defense sought a jury instruction on heat-of-passion manslaughter, and after deliberation the Warren County jury found Talisha Butler guilty of heat-of-passion manslaughter in the death of Christopher Johnson. Did anyone in Vicksburg know Christopher or have information about what led to that fatal encounter?