Baby Declared Miracle By Pope Leo Has Grown Up And Just Got Arrested For Double Shooting

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A Rhode Island man, whose birth was declared a miracle by Pope Leo XIV after he remained without oxygen for over an hour, was arrested in connection with a shooting in his state.

Officers with the Newport Police Department arrested Tyquan Johnson, 19, on Wednesday, according to an official statement. He was taken into custody and charged with “Felony Assault with a Firearm and Discharging a Firearm in a Compact Area.”

Newport Police Officers responded to the scene of a shooting at around 9:55pm on July 19. Two victims were found with “non-threatening injuries.” . . .

Pope Leo XIV declared Johnson’s 2007 birth a miracle in 2025. When Johnson, at the time Tyquan Hall, was born, he “barely had a pulse,” and “had a slow heart rate.”

“After not breathing for 65 minutes despite life-saving measures, and with no heartbeat, the physician prayed for the intercession of Father Valera and the boy suddenly recovered, suffering no apparent damage from the lengthy period of oxygen deprivation,” the Diocese of Providence said in a statement.

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