Just when you thought this David Ortiz case couldn’t get any crazier, there are even more arrests in this case.
Three more people were arrested late Thursday in the botched attempted assassination of Red Sox legend David Ortiz.
As the search for Luis Alfredo Rivas-Clase, known as “The Surgeon,” intensifies as being part of this hit, authorities have also revealed that he is wanted for an attempted homicide in Pennsylvania where another man was also shot in the back. He survived as well.
Via ABC:
“The three people arrested Thursday night were Lanny Estefanny Perez Reyes, José Eduardo Ciprián (Chuki) and Carlos Rafael Álvarez (Carlos Nike), according to the Dominican Republic’s National Prosecutor’s Office. All three will be charged with attempted murder, criminal association and illegal possession of weapons.
Other suspects under arrest in the Dominican Republic were identified by police as Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, Reynaldo Rodriguez Valenzuela, Joel Rodriguez Cruz, Oliver Moises Mirabal Acosta and Polfirio Alende Deschamps Vasquez.”
Police have stated six other men allegedly involved in the attack were seen on camera stalking David Ortiz in a coordinated effort to kill him and collect a nearly $8,000 bounty placed on the retired Major League Baseball player’s head.
What is not known is who the main player is who put the bounty out there.
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After the shooting, Ortiz was rushed to a hospital in Santo Domingo and underwent a 6-hour surgery where doctors removed parts of his liver and small and large intestines.
The Red Sox would soon charter an air ambulance jet to fly Ortiz to Boston, where he underwent a second surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital late Sunday night.
“David remains in guarded condition in the surgical intensive care unit following his second surgery. He continues to heal and make progress,” Ortiz’s wife, Tiffany Ortiz, said in a statement released by the Red Sox on Thursday morning. “David will continue to recover in the ICU and future updates on his condition will be provided when necessary.”
Tiffany Ortiz released a statement and expressed her gratitude to the doctors for saving her husband’s life.
“Without you, our story could have had a tragic ending,” she wrote. “You will forever be our guardian angels.”
