SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—The Dominican Republic’s minister of the environment and natural resources—the son of a former president—was shot to death in his office by a close friend Monday, the office of the president said in a statement.
Authorities said Orlando Jorge Mera was shot by Fausto Miguel de Jesús Cruz de la Mota, who was later arrested at a church dozens of blocks away after telling a priest he committed a crime and handed over a gun to him.
