Three-time world boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho has died four days after he was shot in the face in a drive-by shooting. He was 50.Three-time world boxing champion Hector
Camacho was pronounced dead after being taken off life support following a second heart attack early Saturday morning, Rio Piedras Medical Director Ernesto Torres said.
Puerto Rico officials planned a public wake for the boxer at the Department of Sports & Recreation headquarters in San Juan, but details were pending.
The former U.S. boxing champ had been declared brain dead on Thursday after he was shot on Tuesday while sitting in a car with a friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, 49, outside a liquor store in the San Juan suburb of Bayamon, Camacho's birthplace.
Two gunmen opened fire on the car, killing the driver, Mojica Moreno, and hitting Camacho in the jaw. The bullet fractured two vertebrae and lodged in his shoulder, damaging the arteries that carried blood to the brain, doctors said.
Family members had debated removing him from life support, with some members including his son Hector "Machito" Camacho holding out hope for his recovery.
On Friday evening, his mother Maria Matias acknowledged during a brief talk with reporters at the medical center that that "God has taken him" and indicated that she was waiting for the arrival of Camacho's other children to Puerto Rico before disconnecting him.
Some family members had discussed organ donation, but Torres said too much time had passed from when the former fighter was declared brain dead on Thursday morning to donate his organs now.
Photo: Eurosport - Former boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho of Puerto Rico signs a big boxing glove during a visit to Mexico in 2006 (Reuters)
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