Famed boxer Hector Camacho died after he was taken off life support early Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman in Puerto Rico told CNN. A passing gunman on Tuesday shot Camacho, who was in a car in front of a bar in his hometown of Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He was declared clinically brain dead on Thursday and placed on life support.
Camacho, 50, suffered a heart attack and had been taken off life support, said Wilmelis Marquez, spokeswoman for the Rio Piedras Medical Center. He was pronounced dead at 1:45 a.m., she said. She said his organs were not healthy enough to be donated.
Camacho, a former lightweight and junior lightweight champion, was in the passenger seat of the car, police said. The driver was shot twice and killed, they said.
The suspects are two men believed to have been travelling in a grey vehicle, said Lt. Wilfredo Rivera of Cataño Police. They escaped after a shoot out with police at a residential complex, WAPA TV reported.
His survivors include another son who is also a boxer, Hector "Machito" Camacho Jr. May his soul rest in peace.
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