Former League League Octavio Dotel dead after the collapse of the nightclub Dak

MLB Insider Hector Gomez tweete Dotel, 51, was taken out of the massacre, but died on the way to the hospital.

It is estimated that at least 100 people are missed after the ceiling collapsed at Jet Set, a popular club in the Dominican Republic, while Merengue artist Rubby Pérez and his orchestra performed on stage.

Dotel spent 15 years in the Majors with 13 different teams, the second most teams played by every player in the history of the MLB.

His longest term of office in a team was the five seasons he spent with the Houston Astros, but he was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals when they won the World Series in 2011.

Dotel was in the club with friends and former Big Leaguers Henry Blanco, who played for the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Esteban Germán, who played for the Kansas Cityals and the Oakland Athletics. They both left before the roof collapsed.

Germán posted a video from Pérez that performed on his Instagram story just before the accident. He later sent a message that sharing: “Lord, I’m fine thanks to God … I try to help here .. In case I don’t answer.”

Fans on X shared their grief and memories of Dotel.

One person tweeted: “RIP. Often always watching him pitching. Lost”, as the other echoed: “This lights. Rip to a legend on and out of the diamond. Vegel disappeared too quickly.”

A third added: “He liked seeing him throwing. He is gone shocked. May he rest in peace.”

Until now, at least 146 people have been pulled alive from the rubble of the Jet Set Nachtclub in Santo Domingo, the capital of the country. Officials confirmed that there were at least 300 people in the location at the time of the collapse.

The cause of the collapse is not yet known. A mobile phone clip uploaded on social media showed a man who stood next to the stage and claimed that “something fell out of the ceiling” while pointing to the roof.

Rescue teams were looking for potential survivors in the club’s rubble, according to Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the center of emergency operations.

He said: “We assume that many of them are still alive, and therefore the authorities will not give up here until no person stays under that rubble.”

Nelsy Cruz, the governor of the northwestern province of Montecristi and Sister of Seven-time Major League Baseball All-Star Nelson Cruz, was one of the victims.

Perez’s manager, Enrique Paulino, told reporters on the spot that the concert started shortly before midnight, where the roof collapsed almost an hour later and killed the saxophonist of the group.

While he was covered with blood, he said, “It happened so quickly. I managed to throw myself in a corner,” adding that he initially thought it was an earthquake.