Former Boston Red Sox slugger and Dominican star David Ortiz was shot at a club in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and underwent surgery at an area clinic. One of the doctors who performed the surgery told Dominican TV station CDN 37 that Ortiz is out of danger.
A person who was at the scene told ESPN that Ortiz was wounded by a man, who is being detained, while Ortiz was in the "Dial" club in the eastern part of the Dominican capital.
Dionisio Soldevila, a reporter from the Dominican who hosts a radio show with ESPN's Enrique Rojas, told ESPN he spoke with the doctor who first treated Ortiz and was told Ortiz was shot in the lower back and that the bullet went through and came out his stomach.