The alleged shooter of David Ortiz has been arrested along with four others in a group offered nearly $8,000 to kill the former Boston Red Sox star at a Dominican Republic bar.
The arrests came as Ortiz,recovered in a Boston hospital following a second round of surgery on Tuesday.
Dominican Republic Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez identified Ramon Martinez Perez as the man suspected of jumping off the back of a motorcycle on Sunday night and shooting Ortiz in the torso.
National Police chief Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte said the group was offered 400,000 Dominican pesos ($7,830) to carry out the contract killing.
