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Intended target in David Ortiz shooting claims he doesn’t have a ‘single enemy’

The man who cops identified as the intended target in the David Ortiz shooting says he has no idea why someone would want to kill him, claiming in a recent interview that he doesn’t have “a single enemy” — not even a cat.

“I’m just a businessman,” David Fernández told Zol 106.5 FM, a Dominican radio station, last Friday.

“I have a garage shop,” he said. “I don’t know where these rumors came from, I don’t even have a cat as an enemy.”

Authorities in the DR identified Fernández on Wednesday as the man who was supposed to be targeted during the Ortiz shooting earlier this month. The former Red Sox slugger was hanging out with him outside a nightclub in Santo Domingo — drinking and smoking cigars — when the botched $8,000 hit job went down.

Cops said they obtained new evidence about the assassination attempt that led them to believe Ortiz was not the target. They now suspect that Fernández was supposed to be the victim — with his fugitive cousin, Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez, allegedly hiring a murder crew to take him out because he thought Fernández had snitched on him.

Ortiz’s friend, however, doesn’t believe he was the one being shot at.

“Logic exists,” he told 106.5. “David and I are two very different people physically…I don’t have a single enemy.”

Cops have arrested at least 11 people in connection to the June 9 shooting as Ortiz continues to recover at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Several suspects are still at large.