Retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has hired a former Boston police commissioner to investigate the shooting that nearly left him dead in his native Dominican Republic, according to a report.

Ortiz, 43, has not discussed the June 9 shooting at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo with authorities there, aside from what he told investigators during a bedside interview following emergency surgery.

But he has since hired former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis to get a fuller picture of the ongoing investigation, his spokesman told the Boston Globe.

“He’s damn interested in finding out what really happened,” spokesman Joe Baerlein told the newspaper, signaling that Ortiz is not yet fully convinced he was shot in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

“David has been carefully monitoring the government and police investigation,” Baerlein added. “He has no basis for a long time to challenge their theory of mistaken identity. However, as new facts continue to come up, it lends some optimism that there may be some other conclusions that are drawn before it’s over about why David was shot.”

Baerlein said the “new facts” — such as the government’s reconsideration of jailing one of 14 suspects arrested and the uncovering of an international drug-trafficking ring based in Santo Domingo last week — may provide additional avenues for a team of private investigators to scour.

“We’re open to these new facts perhaps shedding more light on what exactly the motive was for people shooting David,” Baerlein told the Globe. “Maybe something will turn up. Stay tuned.”

Ortiz initially hired Davis for security after being admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was released late last month after three surgeries to repair his liver, intestines and gall bladder, which doctors removed.

“He’s a lucky guy, and he knows it,” Baerlein told the newspaper.

But exactly who wanted to gun down Ortiz remains a mystery to him nearly three months later, his spokesman said.

“I have no enemies on that island,” Baerlein said, quoting the former MLB slugger.

Ortiz has not discussed the shooting with Dominican authorities since he was hospitalized, but has received calls from President Danilo Medina and Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez Sanchez. The conversations focused solely on the baseball icon’s health, Baerlein said.

Dominican National Police Col. Frank Felix Duran Mejia said just “15 to 20 percent” of evidence in the case has been made public due to the country’s judicial process. Police have said that suspect Victor Hugo Gomez Vasquez ordered the assassination attempt against his cousin, Sixto David Fernandez, in the belief that Fernandez had snitched on him in connection with a 2011 drug case. Fernandez was with Ortiz the night the slugger was shot.

One additional suspect, Luis Alfredo Rivas Clase, also known as “The Surgeon,” remains on the run, the Globe reported.

Ortiz, meanwhile, shared a photo of himself Sunday for the first time since the shooting.

“To be great you have to bring the best out of you every day,” Ortiz wrote, sharing a photo of himself and daughter Alex as he dropped her off at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.