Where is hector camacho

He was declared braindead on Nov. Camacho was 50 years old. Both attackers fled the scene after the shooting, and they were never caught by Puerto Rican law enforcement.

Hector Camacho was a beloved sports figure in Puerto Rico. He had one of the most prolific boxing careers of any Puerto Rican fighter, and the country always praised him as a champion. How could anyone want to kill a legendary athlete revered by an entire nation?

Moreno and the two shooters had some previous bad blood, and the deadly attack was meant just to kill him. Camacho just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

He had plenty of good years left and plenty to give to the boxing community in Puerto Rico. There's no denying Camacho's impact on the sport of boxing. He fought professionally for three decades, debuting against David Brown at New York's Felt Forum in before retiring in He won three Golden Gloves titles as an amateur, won super-featherweight, lightweight, and junior welterweight titles, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Drath points to the original fight poster for Camacho's successful defense of the lightweight belt against fellow countryman Edwin Rosario as an example of Camacho's impact.

You never knew how Camacho would be dressed as he entered the ring, but the outfits were always flamboyant. Whether he was dressed in a full Native American headdress, as a Roman soldier, bullfighter, Uncle Sam or as a walking Puerto Rican flag, Camacho had a distinctive style.

He was just as comfortable being outside of the ring as he was inside the ring with some of these costumes. He spent much of his childhood in Spanish Harlem getting in trouble: fights at school "I was thrown out of six schools," Camacho proudly boasts in the film , stealing a car at age 16, doing time at Rikers Island prison and getting caught using cocaine by his mother Maria when he was In the film she talks about flushing his drugs down the toilet and demanding he straighten himself out.

That's what led him to start training at a gym and get into boxing. Camacho's boxing career made him the pride of Spanish Harlem, which was evident as thousands lined the streets of his neighborhood to mourn his death and celebrate his life, chanting "Macho, Macho" as a horse-drawn carriage carried his casket to St.

Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church. Francis Skelly, who presided over the funeral, says in the film. I want to get out of here, man. Hide Caption. Camacho was considered a promoter's dream because he was a showman in the ring against some of the greatest fighters of his era. Camacho won in a round decision. Camacho won with a knockout in the fifth round, ending Leonard's comeback effort. They were the first father and son tandem to share the same boxing card since Los familiares de Camacho 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 traveling in a gray vehicle, said Lt. Investigators continued to search Saturday for the two suspects, said Alex Diaz, spokesman for the Puerto Rico Police Department in the Bayamon division.

Authorities found nine bags of cocaine on the slain driver, who had a long history of drug-related charges and was Camacho's friend, Diaz said.