Two dead linked to David Ortiz attempted murder

[Dolores]

A second person accused of being involved in the attempted murder of baseball great David Ortiz was found dead. The authorities revealed that a cattle ranch farm worker found Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez’s decomposed corpse on 10 January 2024 in the Batey Palmara. The body was identified by the ID card in a pocket. The authorities suspect Gomez Vasquez was murdered.

A source told El Dia, Gomez Vasquez had been kidnapped. Gomez Vasquez’s wife had said her husband had gone missing since 9 December 2024.

Gomez Vasquez had been in jail in the United States for drug trafficking in 2011. He was arrested on 28 June 2023 accused of being the intellectual author of the attempted Ortiz murder.

In September 2021, Luis Alfredo Rivas, alias “the surgeon” and also implicated in the attempted murder of Ortiz was murdered by gunshots in Santiago. He was a fugitive of US justice since...

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[windeguy]

There is no such thing as a coincidence.

 

[Big]

Good riddance

 

[Lucifer]

Víctor Hugo Gómez Vásquez (Vitico) was my friend. I know his family. I feel bad for them.

 

[Big]

Víctor Hugo Gómez Vásquez (Vitico) was my friend. I know his family. I feel bad for them.

awesome, So you associate with drug traffickers and career criminals. Do you sport one of those super fashionable neck tattoos as well.

 

[AlterEgo]

awesome, So you associate with drug traffickers and career criminals. Do you sport one of those super fashionable neck tattoos as well.

Uncalled for Big. Sometimes people we know, are related to and/or love step over to that side. His feeling sad for the man’s family shows heart.

 

[chico bill]

Uncalled for Big. Sometimes people we know, are related to and/or love step over to that side. His feeling sad for the man’s family shows heart.

Really an attempted assassin, and ordered only because of a jealous lover in a love triangle -
I'm sorry when you take money to kill someone for such a flimsy reason - you have lost all touch with humanity.
Big has every right to express his fond farewells to such a person (this is assuming he is guilty)

 

[Big]

The tattoo comment was uncalled for. He is advocating for a drug dealer that was implicated in blowing out David Ortiz bowels in a violent attack. That is uncalled for.

 

[AlterEgo]

Really an attempted assassin, and ordered only because of a jealous lover in a love triangle -
I'm sorry when you take money to kill someone for such a flimsy reason - you have lost all touch with humanity.
Big has every right to express his fond farewells to such a person (this is assuming he is guilty)

No one is saying that. I agree.

It was the attack on Lucifer that was uncalled for.

 

[bachata]

Someone is cleaning up behind the the job. As a mechanic I clean up my work zone after every jab is completed, I also wipe my tools before they go back to the drawers where they belongs to.

JJ

 

[Lucifer]

Uncalled for Big. Sometimes people we know, are related to and/or love step over to that side. His feeling sad for the man’s family shows heart.

Thank you, AE.
And that's exactly right: I had known him and his family (mother, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts) since 1995.
Most long-term Dominican residents of Houston know his well-loved family... a family composed of lovely people and hard-working and responsible individuals.

When news of his accusation was made public in the Ortiz case, most Dominicans knew better.
Eventually, Ortiz commissioned an investigation, and it was revealed that César Emilio Peralta, alias "El Abusador," was the mastermind.

Vitico and two others were finally released, while the actual perpetrators (10 in total) were sentenced to varying terms, ranging from 9 to 30 years in prison.

I feel terrible for his family.

 

[Big]

I feel terrible for David Ortiz. He had a portion of his colon and intestines removed as a result of being shot. He also sustained liver damage from the bullet that passed through his body and struck another innocent bystander in the leg. They initially told him he might need a colostomy bag for life. He survived only because he had the means to pay for intensive surgery both here and in the US. He had several surgeries and had his gallbladder removed during one of them. I am so sure all the perps involved have great families.

 

[keepcoming]

I still think that there is a lot more to the story than just Ortiz being shot over some type of jealousy. But those are my thoughts and opinion. Perps' families? Some of the best/decent families have what you would call "perps" in the family. Morals/respect are not always hereditary or learnt.

 

[Big]

I still think that there is a lot more to the story than just Ortiz being shot over some type of jealousy. But those are my thoughts and opinion. Perps' families? Some of the best/decent families have what you would call "perps" in the family. Morals/respect are not always hereditary or learnt.

That maybe. Everyone has a mother and a father. However, I would be reticent to call a drug dealer and a person that was implicated in a vicious assault a "friend". Big Papi has contributed more for the community both here and in the U,S in an afternoon than this drug dealer has done in his entire life.

 

[Big]

I still think that there is a lot more to the story than just Ortiz being shot over some type of jealousy. But those are my thoughts and opinion. Perps' families? Some of the best/decent families have what you would call "perps" in the family. Morals/respect are not always hereditary or learnt.

Reference to "perps". Yes! that was being kind. He was a drug dealer which is a life choice. Dealing in violence and misery. It has also been noted that he was angry at Big Papi as he felt he had been disrespected by him. But hey, he is a good friend.

 

[La Profe_1]

Big, you would be wise to cease exhibiting your lack of compassion for all to see.

Back out of this thread now!

 

[Lucifer]

Reference to "perps". Yes! that was being kind. He was a drug dealer which is a life choice. Dealing in violence and misery. It has also been noted that he was angry at Big Papi as he felt he had been disrespected by him. But hey, he is a good friend.

Sir, you are confused.

I've never claimed to even know César Emilio Peralta, alias "El Abusador," let alone call him a "good friend."
He was extradited from Colombia to Puerto Rico, and is doing 25 to life for cocaine trafficking.

 

[chico bill]

I still think that there is a lot more to the story than just Ortiz being shot over some type of jealousy. But those are my thoughts and opinion. Perps' families? Some of the best/decent families have what you would call "perps" in the family. Morals/respect are not always hereditary or learnt.

Cull the bad ones. I did that with my own twin.
Sometimes you have to realize even your own blood isn't worth the grief

 

[Big]

Sir, you are confused.

I've never claimed to even know César Emilio Peralta, alias "El Abusador," let alone call him a "good friend."
He was extradited from Colombia to Puerto Rico, and is doing 25 to life for cocaine trafficking.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjN3o7Y_OKDAxUyEFkFHUVzCXoQFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F06%2F19%2Famericas%2Fwho-is-victor-hugo-gomez-dominican-republic%2Findex.html&usg=AOvVaw2V09lH_2HBPIcLi0JV0SVr&opi=89978449

 

[Lucifer]

Sir, that's 2019 "news".

You can go on believing the early "oficial" version, but most Dominicans know what's up.
And as others suspect, there's probably more to it than a simple "lío de faldas."

From the Boston Globe, March 19, 2002:

"...[f]ormer Boston police commissioner Ed Davis determined after a six-month private investigation into the brazen alleged murder conspiracy.

Davis, disclosing his findings for the first time, said the powerful and politically connected drug lord César “The Abuser” Peralta came to feel disrespected by Ortiz, prompting him to place a bounty on Ortiz’s head and sanction the ragtag hit squad that tried to kill him.

“Peralta said he had David shot,” Davis said in an interview, citing information that he said US law enforcement officials gathered and shared with him.
Ortiz, in a phone call from the Dominican Republic, said he was “sad, confused, angry, all kinds of emotions” when he received the news from Davis, whom he hired to conduct the investigation, and Ric Prado, a former high-ranking CIA official who participated in the inquiry."