David Ortiz Was Allegedly Targeted by Drug Kingpin César ‘The Abuser’ Peralta in 2019 Shooting

The report states that the Major League Baseball star and the drug kingpin crossed paths “multiple times” before the 2019 shooting in Ortiz’s native country, Dominican Republic. David Ortiz said in a phone call with The Boston Globe that he was “sad, confused, angry, all kinds of emotions” when Davis–whom he hired to conduct the investigation into his shooting, informed him of the news. Ortiz also said he and César Peralta were not close friends but simply associates. Reportedly, Ortiz also hired Ric Prado, a former high-ranking CIA official, to take part in the investigation. As noted in the report, Davis’ findings go against the initial reported findings of Dominican officials.

As previously reported, prosecutors in the case initially claimed David Ortiz wasn’t the intended target in the shooting. Reportedly, Ortiz was in the mixup of mistaken identity following an alleged drug lord, José Eduardo ‘Chunky’ Ciprián, to execute a man in connection of his wife’s affair.

David Ortiz, “Chunky”

According to the new report, Ortiz also alleged that former Dominican attorney general Jean Alain Rodríguez asked him to make a public statement supporting the mistaken identity theory. CIA official Ric Prado said,

“We understood the attorney general was trying to make [Peralta’s possible involvement] go away, because if Peralta went down, many people in the government were going to go down.”