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Boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho pronounced dead after gunshot to head
cbsnews.com
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- Hector "Macho" Camacho, a Puerto Rican
boxer known for skill and flamboyance in the ring as well as for a
messy personal life and run-ins with the police, was declared dead on
Saturday, four days after being shot in the face. He was 50.
Shot while sitting in a parked car outside a bar Tuesday with a friend
in the city of Bayamon, he was declared dead at the Centro Medico
trauma center in San Juan. The friend, 49-year-old Adrian Mojica
Moreno, died at the scene of the shooting. Police said Mojica had nine
small bags of cocaine in his pocket and a 10th bag was found open in
the car.
Originally from Bayamon, just outside San Juan, Camacho was long
regarded as a flashy if volatile talent, a skilled boxer who was
perhaps overshadowed by his longtime foil, Mexican superstar Julio
Cesar Chavez, who would beat him in a long-awaited showdown in Las
Vegas in 1992.
Camacho fought professionally for three decades, from his humble debut
against David Brown at New York's Felt Forum in 1980 to an equally
forgettable swansong against Sal Duran in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2010.
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