Five People Arrested In Ortiz Shooting, Including Suspected Gunman

CBS Boston:

Five people are now under arrest – including the suspected gunman – in the Dominican Republic in connection with the shooting of David Ortiz, sources told WBZ-TV's Anaridis Rodriguez Wednesday.

Four of the people were arrested Tuesday about 100 miles northwest of Santo Domingo ...

#BREAKING: VIDEO showing Dominican police arresting several suspects connected to the shooting of David Ortiz.
Sources tell me among the detained is the presumed shooter.
Arrests were made yesterday, 100mi NW of Santo Domingo.

📷: @hgomez27 - Hector Gomez @wbz pic.twitter.com/hFqjHUfhzG

— Anaridis Rodriguez (@Anaridis) June 12, 2019

The fifth person in custody, 25-year-old Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, was captured shortly after the shooting. Police say he drove the gunman to the bar on a motorcycle. Enraged fans grabbed Feliz Garcia and brutally beat him before handing him over to police, but the gunman escaped.

Feliz Garcia is charged as an accomplice to an attempted murder.

The other four suspects have not been named yet.

Alex Reimer, WEEI:

Good news stories put news events in context, which is why every article about the Ortiz shooting should contain the Dominican Republic's rate of gun deaths. The island's rate of gun deaths is the same as it is here, per data from 2016. So save all of those crude jokes about the Dominican being this violence-ravaged wasteland –– unless you also want to make the same quips about the situation in this country.

In addition to starving off blatant xenophobia, this statistic also lends greater credence to the notion Ortiz was targeted. You are not putting your life into your hands if you go to an upscale bar in Santo Domingo.