Retired Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz was sent home from Massachusetts General Hospital after an extended stay from 9 June 2019. Ortiz was hospitalized after he was shot at in the back when sitting at the Dial Bar & Lounge in Eastern Santo Domingo. He was first operated on in Santo Domingo, and then underwent two other surgeries in Boston.
An investigation into the shooting revealed a ruined plot intended instead to target a friend of Ortiz, Sixto David Fernandez, according to Dominican authorities.
25-year old Rolfi Ferreira-Cruz of New Jersey was arrested and identified as the alleged gunman who fired the shots at Ortiz. A dozen were also arrested for investigations in the case. Victor Hugo Gomez, a cousin of Fernández, was named by the authorities as the mastermind of the shooting. He was arrested on 28 June in the Dominican Republic. The Police said he was angry at Fernandez for naming him in a 2011 drug bust that led to his imprisonment.
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29 July 2019