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Re: David Ortiz shot, hospitalized in Dominican Republic
« Reply #30 on: June 12, 2019, 04:57:45 PM »

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According to Dominican police, those arrested were paid 400k Dominican pesos or $8k to kill David Ortiz. $8k doesn't seem much, but the per capita income in the Dominican Republic is about 5k pesos a month, or 60k a year. This would represent about 6 1/2 years of wages.

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BREAKING: At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte, director of the Dominican National Police, and Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez, said the authorities had arrested a total of five people directly involved in the attack on Ortiz, including the alleged gunman.

Almonte also held up the black handgun allegedly used in the attack and showed security camera footage of the shooting and of people scattering after the attack.

Rodriguez said the alleged hitmen had been paid 400,000 Dominican pesos, or just under $8,000, to kill Ortiz. Almonte said authorities are continuing to investigate and have not determined who was the mastermind behind the attack and what the motive was.

Chilling new details emerged Wednesday about the shooting of retired Red Sox legend David Ortiz, who was ambushed Sunday night as he sat with friends at a popular night spot in his native Santo Domingo.

The details were contained in court documents filed in the case against Eddy Vladimir Féliz García, 23, who’s accused of driving the gunman on a motorcycle to the Dial Bar and Lounge, where Ortiz was shot in the back at close range.

According to the documents, a friend of García’s spotted him in a parking lot in the Caobas neighborhood the day before the shooting, talking to people who were seated in two silver-gray cars.

Behind the wheel of one car was Oliver Moisés Mirabal Acosta, also known as “Papi,” records show. Acosta was arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting.

The witness told police the group, which had gathered around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, included several women and a small child, the filings said.

The following night, other witnesses saw two cars, a gray Kia and a gray Hyundai, parked on a street near the Dial. García and another man were on a motorcycle next to the cars. The men got off the motorcycle and left it on the street and drove off in the Kia, leaving the bike next to the Hyundai, records show. The car returned a couple minutes later, and the same witnesses saw García and his companion mount the bike, the documents said.

Moments later, witnesses said they saw a man on a Baja motorcycle get off and walk up to where Ortiz was seated. “Without saying a word, [the gunman] fired a gun,” the report said.

Witnesses said the shooter tried to get back on the motorcycle but fled when people surrounded the bike.

García “accelerated, lost control of the motorcycle and tumbled, leading people in the area to detain him and beat him,” prosecutors wrote. “The person who fired kept running with the gun in his hand and managed to escape.”

Afterward, police conducted “an exhaustive investigation” and examined video surveillance that showed the shooter running toward the Hyundai and reuniting with the people inside the car. The license plate of the car matched the license plate of a car caught by a gas station camera in Caobas.

García faces a charge of being an accomplice to attempted murder, which he’s denied through his lawyer. Court records said Acosta was captured Tuesday night in the town of Mao in the northern Dominican Republic.

It wasn’t immediately clear what charges Acosta faces in connection with the shooting, but he has a criminal past. The Dominican newspaper Listin Diario reported Wednesday that Acosta was sentenced to five years in prison for illegal gun possession in May 2017. The newspaper said Acosta had been accused of participating in the execution of at least four people in January 2013 at “El Pentagono,” a drug spot in the town of Las Palmas de Herrera. The killings were linked, the newspaper said, to a drug trafficking gang led by Junior Minaya Javier, nicknamed “Gilbert.”

Police haven’t disclosed a motive for the attack on Ortiz.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/12/david-ortiz-doing-fine-continues-recovering-from-shooting-spokesman-says/UdujZiN96ljbwV46dPfm1K/story.html
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Re: David Ortiz shot, hospitalized in Dominican Republic
« Reply #31 on: June 12, 2019, 05:28:20 PM »

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My Dominican buddy claims this is an isolated accident. He says big papi fooled with someone’s girlfriend and the jealous guy sent someone to retaliate. DR didn’t feel unsafe when we were there this spring. I did get offered all kind of services however.
You have to consider that millions of Americans go there every year and get drunk , high or pay for sex and very incidents happen.

That's what all the Domincans at my work are saying. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that is the motive here.