No motives are given for attempted murder of David Ortiz
The Police director Ney Aldrín Bautista and Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez named three people that investigators say are the material authors of the shooting of baseball player David Ortiz. Rolfy Ferreyra Cruz or Ramón Martínez (Rolfi) is identified as the man who fired at Ortiz on Sunday, 9 June 2019, at the Dial Bar & Lounge of Ensanche Ozama in eastern Santo Domingo. He was arrested in northwestern Mao, Valverde, together with Oliver Moisés Mirabal Acosta. Eddy Vladimir Feliz García (El Nata) was the first suspect arrested after the motorcycle he was driving skidded and he and the shooter fell off. The gunman got away at the time, but Feliz García was captured and beaten by a crowd.
In the press conference called at the Public Ministry on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, with the participation of Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and Police director Ney Aldrin Bautista, the authorities said others are under arrest in the case.
The Police director said that the coordinator of the action had been contracted for RD$400,000. Nevertheless, despite saying that the material authors of the crime had been captured in 72 hours after the attack, Bautista nor Rodríguez did not name the intellectual authors of the crime or the motive.
The Police presented surveillance video showing evidence that the attempted murder had been planned. The Police showed surveillance video in which the two suspects who arrived on the motorcycle had met with other persons in two vehicles that were in the area. The Police director said it has evidence that one of the cars had been that same day in Mao.
The director of the Police said that police investigators are handling several hypotheses concerning the possible motive for the crime and that the investigation is ongoing as evidence is collected. He said this was a preliminary statement made just 72 hours after the crime. The Police expects to be able to offer more details soon. The Police is building several hypotheses primarily from testimonies and evidence from surveillance videos in Santo Domingo and Mao.
The Police director said that on the same Sunday of the attack at 5:30pm a surveillance vehicle captured how Eddy Vladimir Feliz García (El Nata) had met with Oliver Moisés Mirabal Acosta in Las Caobas neighborhood in northern Santo Domingo. Mirabal Acosta would later be arrested on Tuesday evening in Mao, Valverde.
The director of the Police said that surveillance followed two vehicles and showed a woman also meeting with the group in Las Caobas meeting with Feliz Garcia and Mirabal Acosta. The surveillance cameras confirmed the same cars were later at Calle Octavio Mejía Ricart in Ensanche Ozama at the time of the shooting at 9:20 pm, and on one occasion the occupants of the motorcycle boarded the vehicle, leaving their bike parked outside, and later re-boarded the bike to head to the Dial Bar & Lounge.
The director of the Police stressed that they are in the investigative phase and could not share more details. “Trust that we will have the motive and other details,” he said.
The suspected shooter does not have a police record. Nevertheless, Oliver Mirabal has other cases pending in the judiciary.
Police director Bautista said that the case is receiving the normal attention of a criminal investigation process. He said the Police has been working overtime to present the material authors, including the person who fired at David Ortiz. He said during a second phase of the investigations would provide the results of the ongoing investigation.
The Police presented the Hi-Power Browning pistol that would have been used to shoot Ortiz.
The Police identified a silver Hyundai, property of the wife of Oliver Moises Mirabal, and a Hyundai Sonata in which Porfirio Allende and his spouse “La Venezolana” (also Pelirubia) were on board.
The Police said that others in custody and suspected as accomplices in the shooting case are Joel Rodríguez de la Cruz (Calamardo), Porfirio Allende Dechamps Vásquez (Nene) and Reynaldo Rodríguez Valenzuela. The Police says they are on the trail of Luis Alfredo Rivas (El Cirujano), “La Venezolana,” Marcos Díaz and Alexander.
The Attorney General named the suspect gunman as Ramon Martínez (Rolfi), while the Police director referred to him as Rolfy Ferreyra Cruz.
Diario Libre reported that the Rolfy Ferreyra and Luis Alfredo Rivas Clase have criminal records in the United States.
Ines Aizpun writes in a Diario Libre editorial on the successful operation at the Centro de Medicina Avanzada Abel González that saved David Ortiz’s life.
Source: DR1, Eldia
June 16, 2019
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