Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic’s most feared underworld figure was shot dead Saturday night amid an as yet unclear incident inside Najayo prison, where he was serving time for a drug a trafficking conviction.

Rolando Florián Feliz was shot seven times by a the jail guard Lino Oscar Jiménez, said Prisons director Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez, whose official report states that about 9 a.m., three hours after the conjugal visits are allowed, captain Jiménez "reiterated to Florián that he had to conclude the visit by Danerys Mejía de los Santos and Yury Lora, who were with the inmate since 4 p.m."

Captain Jimenez’s insistence may have been the reason the inmate cut the face of the guard, who at that moment wasn’t armed.

"The inmate pursued the captain outside his area of enclosure, moments in which the officer went to look for a weapon with which he caused the wounds that caused his death," said Perez Sanchez in a press conference in which he didn’t respond to reporters’ questions.

Florián, 43, was a university student when he was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for trafficking 953 kilos of cocaine, serving time in high security cells in other penitentiaries, from where he was transferred to a common cell in Najayo since 2005.

Ordered crimes from within prison

Throughout his 14 years in prison the name Florián was linked to several drug and murder cases, among them the kidnapping and death of Victor Augusto Feliz Matos, for which was convicted to an additional six years in prison.

He was also convicted to five years for attempted escapes and tried to get paroled several times, the latest in January, but his request was denied.