Toussaint James Johnson Jr., 28, a Black male from New Iberia, Louisiana, died on June 27, 2018, after a late-night burst of gunfire shattered the quiet around Corrine Street. A little after 9:00 p.m., deputies in the area heard shots near the intersection of Corrine Street and Lombard Street, then moved in to search for where the sound had come from.
In the 600 block of Corrine Street, they found Johnson down and gravely wounded.
He had been shot multiple times, and deputies began life-saving efforts right there in the street, but the injuries were too severe and he did not survive. Public accounts from the period described no clear motive, only that the shooting happened for unknown reasons and left investigators trying to piece together who had pulled the trigger and why.
In the days and weeks that followed, the case was pushed into the public eye through Crime Stoppers appeals that asked anyone with information to come forward. Those appeals described the same timeline—gunshots heard shortly after 9:00 p.m., Johnson found on Corrine Street, and a search for the person responsible—without naming a suspect or describing any arrests connected to his death.
Outside of the investigation, funeral notices identified him as a native and resident of New Iberia and recorded the community’s goodbye in the weeks after his death. The obituary information available publicly does not add investigative details, but it situates him as a working young man whose life ended abruptly on June 27, 2018, while the homicide case itself was still being treated as unsolved in the publicly available reporting tied to Crime Stoppers.
