The suspect in a double shooting in the United States is apparently the same man whose unexpected recovery after a health crisis as a newborn was deemed a miracle by the Vatican in 2025. Source: EWTN News.
Police in Newport, Rhode Island, said in a July 24 press release that Tyquan Johnson was facing arrest for felony assault with a firearm in connection with a double shooting in Newport on July 19.
The police dispatch, which said Mr Johnson was considered “armed and dangerous”, identified the suspect’s birthday as January 14, 2007. That date is the same birthday as the Rhode Island-born “Tyquan” noted by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in its information page on Blessed Salvador Valera Parra.
Valera was a 19th-century-born Spanish priest who carried out “many works of a spiritual and social nature”, particularly during cholera epidemics and earthquakes, according to the dicastery.
In considering his beatification, the dicastery said it reviewed the Rhode Island case, in which a pregnant mother was hospitalised after her amniotic sac ruptured. The baby was ultimately delivered via caesarean section, after which doctors “did not perceive any heartbeat”.
The attending physician at that point “invoked Salvador Valera Parra”, the dicastery said, after which the baby recovered his heartbeat without any external assistance and made a full recovery.
Pope Leo XIV approved the dicastery’s promulgation of the miracle on June 20, 2025.
In a July 18, 2025, statement, Diocese of Providence Chancellor Fr Timothy Reilly said the miracle was “a reminder of the power of prayer and the intercession of holy men and women”.
Fr Reilly did not respond to requests for comment on the crime incident this month.
Rhode Island police said another individual was wanted in connection with the shooting, though it did not identify that suspect in its press release.
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Rhode Island shooting suspect was recipient of miraculous healing decreed by Vatican in 2025 (By Daniel Payne, EWTN News)
