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Alleged Shooter Arrested in $8,000 Plot to Kill Baseball's David Ortiz

Reuters

   SANTO DOMINGO - 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, authorities
   said on Wednesday.

   The arrests came as Ortiz, 43, recovered in a Boston hospital following
   a second round of surgery on Tuesday, according to his family, which
   said he was sitting up and had taken a few steps.

   The plot to kill Ortiz, a national hero in the Dominican Republic, was
   more complex than initially thought and involved two men on a
   motorcycle working with two other groups of people in cars, National
   Police chief Ney Aldrin Bautista Almonte told reporters.

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