The Washington Nationals have fired an employee for throwing two cups of hot coffee in the face of a woman in the Dominican Republic, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, Kiley McDaniel, and Enrique Rojas.
A video posted on Twitter by @OdeComunica shows Jazhiel Morel throwing two cups of coffee in the face of a female employee at a convenience store on Friday. Morel has reportedly agreed to turn himself into police on Monday morning, according to Edith Febles (via Passan).
The Washington Nationals fired an employee in the Dominican Republic on Saturday after he allegedly threw two cups of hot coffee in the face of a female convenience-store employee.
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— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 22, 2020
The former Nationals employee, Jazhiel Morel, has agreed to turn himself into police Monday morning, according to @edithfebles.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 22, 2020
Morel was the administrator of the Nationals’ baseball academy in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic, which has featured current Washington players such as Juan Soto and Victor Robles.
Nats president of baseball operations and general manager Mike Rizzo issued a statement to ESPN on Saturday, saying that the organization “learned of this horrific incident earlier today and immediately terminated the employee.”
“The Washington Nationals learned of this horrific incident earlier today and immediately terminated the employee,” Mike Rizzo, the Nationals’ president of baseball operations and general manager, said in a statement to ESPN on Saturday. “We do not tolerate this type of behavior in our organization.”
