BOSTON -- A Dominican drug trafficker who was jealous of David Ortiz and felt disrespected by him had him shot at a Dominican nightclub in 2019, according to the private investigators the former Red Sox slugger hired to look into the attack that nearly killed him.
The findings by former Boston police commissioner Edward Davis contradict the theory of the crime developed by Dominican prosecutors.
Davis told The Boston Globe that he identified drug-trafficker César Peralta as having orchestrated the shooting by placing a bounty on Ortiz and sanctioning the hit squad that tried to kill him.