On the morning of July 8, 2003, 53-year-old DeLois Bailey, a Lockheed Martin plant employee in Meridian, Mississippi, was fatally shot during a workplace attack. A coworker, Douglas Paul Williams, left an ethics and diversity meeting, retrieved firearms from his vehicle, and returned armed with a shotgun and a rifle. Williams shot at employees for about ten minutes; Bailey was among those who tried to flee and was killed.

The rampage left six people dead and eight wounded before Williams died by suicide at the scene. Five of the six victims were African-American, and the shooting has been described as having a racial component. Anyone who knew DeLois Bailey, her workplace routine, or who has information about that day is asked to come forward.