Homicide Charges Filed in Aliquippa Shooting on April 10, 2022

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Story by Frank Sparks and Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio
(Aliquippa, Pa.) Pa State Police at the Beaver Barracks are reporting that they have filed criminal homicide charges against 29-year-old Tyquan Cornell Johnson of Aliquippa.

Troopers say that Johnson murdered 22-year-old Isaiah Alston, of Aliquippa at the intersection of Irwin and Meadows Streets in the early morning hours of April 10, 2022. Alston sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Shortly after police arrived on scene they received a report of a person being shot in the 1200 block of Franklin Ave. in Aliquippa. When police arrived they found Johnson had been shot multiple times. Johnson was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital for his injuries. Aliquippa Police asked PSP to take over the investigation.
Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane  told Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano that “PSP  did an outstanding job. This is the way  all of our crimes against persons  should be handled, and the families deserve swift justice.”
State Police have charged Johnson with criminal homicide, prohibited person from possessing a firearm, possession of a firearm with  manufacture number altered/obliterated, firearms not  to be carried without a license, recklessly endangering another person.
He is currently being housed in the Beaver County Jail awaiting a preliminary hearing.