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A Rhode Island man \u2014 whose birth was recognized by Pope Leo as a miracle after he was deprived of oxygen for over an hour before recovering without medical intervention more than a decade ago \u2014 has been arrested in connection with a double shooting.<\/p>\n

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Tyquan Johnson, 19, was captured by the US Marshals fugitive task force at an apartment in Virginia Wednesday morning after he was wanted for allegedly shooting two people, the Newport Police Department announced.<\/p>\n

Johnson is accused of committing the crime in Newport, RI on July 19 and allegedly fled to Virginia as officials issued a warrant for his arrest. <\/p>\n

Both victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n

Authorities said they were seeking a second individual for questioning in connection with the shooting but did not identify the person.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been charged with felony assault with a firearm and firing in a compact area, police said.<\/p>\n

The arrest comes almost exactly a year after Pope Leo XIV declared Johnson\u2019s 2007 birth the first miracle of his papacy and the first ever recognized miracle in Rhode Island, the Boston Globe reported.<\/p>\n

The stunning connection came to light when law enforcement released his arrest warrant with Johnson\u2019s photo, name and date of birth matching those of the man Pope Leo had recognized in July 2025.<\/p>\n

Johnson was born prematurely on Jan. 14, 2007, at the former Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket. <\/p>\n

The newborn was suffering from oxygen deprivation and other symptoms that showed no improvement after 65 minutes, leaving doctors with little hope he would survive, according to the Diocese of Providence.<\/p>\n

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The attending physician, Juan Sanchez-Esteban, prayed to 19th-century Spanish priest Valera Parra for intervention in saving the child\u2019s life, according to the Boston Globe.<\/p>\n

Just as Sanchez-Esteban was about to deliver the devastating news to the child\u2019s parents, a nurse stopped him and told him the child \u201csuddenly recovered\u201d and his heart had started beating without medical intervention, he told the outlet.<\/p>\n

The doctor \u2014 who is from the same region of Spain where Parra was a priest \u2014 said the boy should have suffered permanent brain damage from the lack of oxygen, but instead lived a life completely free of any complications.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the miracle began more than 10 years ago \u2014 with a bishop in Valera Parra\u2019s native Spain sending investigators to Rhode Island in 2014, Father Timothy Reilly, Chancellor of the Diocese of Providence, told WJAR last year.<\/p>\n

The Diocese of Providence announced that Pope Leo XIV declared Johnson\u2019s recovery a miracle on July 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe cool thing is, the more you think about the miracle itself, Father Valera lives in the 19th century,\u201d Reilly said. \u201cHe never came to the US. We have no knowledge of him coming here. Never came to Rhode Island. And yet, because the doctor called out and called upon his name for help in the situation back in \u201907 on behalf of that little baby, he decided to intervene and ask God for a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parra was a diocesan priest, archpriest and parish priest of Hu\u00e9rcal-Overa who lived from 1816 to 1889.<\/p>\n

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