Prosecutors identify man accused of paying for hitting David Ortiz

CNN has obtained documents from a Dominican court revealing new details regarding the shooting, including the name of the person accused of having paid for the strike attempt, identified by Alberto Miguel Rodriguez Mota.

Perez Vizcaíno was the interlocutor of Rodriguez Mota and another suspect accused of helping to orchestrate the hit of a Dominican prison, known as Jose Eduardo Ciprián. According to court documents, Ciprián and Carlos Alvarez contributed to the coordination of the shooting and paid a payment of $ 7,800 to the future imprisoned killers.

Perez Vizcaíno then met a "criminal group" at a gas station to show them the picture of the person to be "liquidated", according to the indictment.

According to Jose Hoopelman, David Ortiz's lawyer, on Monday, Perez Vizcaíno was sentenced to one year of pre-trial detention during a hearing.

It is unclear why Rodriguez Mota would have paid nearly $ 8,000 to kill Ortiz or he was acting on the order of someone else.

Police search Rodriguez Mota, accused of attempted murder in the case.

How did the shooting take place?

Rodriguez Mota is the last suspect identified in a massive investigation that rocked the Dominican Republic.

Ortiz was sitting on a crowded bar patio in Santo Domingo the night of June 10 when an armed man came in, took out a 9mm Browning Hi-Power and shot him once in the bottom of back.

The bullet passed through Ortiz, puncturing his intestines and internal organs, before touching his friend Jhoel Lopez, TV program host, in the leg.

The accused, the shooter, Rolfi Ferreira Cruz, escaped on foot. His alleged driver, Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, stalled his motorcycle while he was trying to flee. An enraged crowd beat him before delivering him to the police.

In addition to Rodriguez Mota, the police said she was also looking for the unidentified brain and another suspect, Luis Alfredo Rivas-Clase, nicknamed "El Cirujano" or "The Surgeon".

The status of cases

The shooting left the Dominicans wondering who would order the public assassination of a sports hero without apparently fearing retribution.

Up to now, 10 suspects are in detention and face charges.

Many of the defendants come from poor neighborhoods and appear to be infantrymen in an alleged conspiracy against one of the greatest athletes in the Dominican Republic.

Several of them denied their involvement, with masked police officers summoning them to court for a hearing on Friday. At the hearing, a judge ordered nine of the suspects to remain in prison for at least one year pending trial.

The alleged prosecutor, Ferreira Cruz, was arrested on Wednesday and confessed to firing, prosecutors told CNN.

Ferreira Cruz told reporters that he was planning to shoot someone else, claiming that prosecutors deem absurd given that Ortiz is one of the most recognizable people in the world. country.

Dominican officials have released a video showing, according to them, Ferreira Cruz and Garcia talking with people inside a car parked near the club, apparently for the purpose of coordinating the attempt. assassination of Ortiz. The car and another vehicle fled immediately after filming.