Ex-boxing champ 'Macho' Camacho shot

[Saint in Paradise]

Former world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital on Tuesday,

but doctors said he was expected to survive.

 

Another man in the car, whose relationship to the 50-year-old Camacho wasn't immediately known, died in the attack in which at least one

man opened fire on their vehicle in the city of Bayamon, according to a statement from police.

 

Camacho was taken to Centro Medico, the trauma centre in San Juan, where he was in a critical but stable condition, said hospital director

Ernesto Torres.

 

The bullet apparently struck him in the jaw but exited his head and lodged in his right shoulder and fractured two vertebrae, Dr Torres said.

 

The doctor said the boxer, who had drug and alcohol problems during a career that included some big-name bouts, could be paralysed from

the shooting.

 

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/15438461/ex-boxing-champ-macho-camacho-shot/

 

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[Gorgiesaint]

Sad to hear that he is now clinically brain dead, and just awaiting a final family decision to switch off life support. A great boxer in his time.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20474183

[badgerx16]

Having been taken off life support he has died.