Two separate shoot-outs that left seven people wounded were the result of the latest round of politics and violence in the countryside. Newspaper accounts differ, but it seems that in Nagua, Maria Trinidad Sanchez provincial capital, three people were wounded by gunshots during a confrontation between supporters of the reigning PLD party and the Independent Revolutionary Party PRI when the two political caravans got together on the way to the Pueblo Abajo area in Nagua. Two members of the PRI party were wounded and one member of the PLD was wounded. Ramon Mendoza Minaya was shot several times in the chest and Francisco Corder was shot in the head. Both men were transferred to the San Vicente de Paul Hospital in San Francisco de Macoris while Nilda Marte was treated for gunshot wounds in Nagua.
In another violent incident that took place in Moca, six individuals carrying homemade shotguns broke into the basketball court at the Don Bosco School and began shooting at the fans. Two girls were hit with buckshot and the police shot two of the assailants, Roberto Antonio Santiago and Enrique Gomez Perez while both were carrying their homemade weapons. Three of those wounded are said to be in serious condition.