One of David Ortiz shooting ‘masterminds’ arrested

Published June 28, 2019 10:40pm ET



Police said they have arrested of one of the “masterminds” behind the shooting of baseball legend David “Big Papi” Ortiz.

The suspect allegedly behind the shooting, Victor Hugo Gomez, is a convicted drug dealer who did not intend to target Ortiz, but rather Gomez’s own cousin, Sixto David Fernandez, who was sitting at the same table as the 43-year-old slugger at a Dominican Republic bar during the June 9 shooting.

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