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November 22, 2012, Thursday
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FORMER champion boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho was seriously wounded on Tuesday in a shooting incident outside the Puerto Rican capital, and doctors and his spokesman said he was expected to survive.
At least one gunman opened fire on the 50-year-old Camacho and another man as they sat in a car in the city of Bayamon.
The other man, whose relationship to the former boxer wasn't immediately known, was killed.
Camacho was rushed to Centro Medico in San Juan, where he was in critical but stable condition, Dr. Ernesto Torres, the hospital director, said. The bullet apparently struck him in the jaw, exited his head and lodged in his right shoulder, fracturing two vertebrae, Torres said. The doctor said the boxer, who battled drug and alcohol problems during his career, was at risk of paralysis from the shooting.
"Camacho's condition is extremely delicate," he said. "His physical condition will help him but we will see."
No arrests have been made in the shooting, police said.
Camacho representative Steve Tannenbaum said he was told by friends at the hospital that the boxer would make it. "This guy is a cat with nine lives. He's been through so much," he said. "If anybody can pull through it will be him."
Camacho has a career record of 79-5-3, with his most recent fight coming in 2009.
At least one gunman opened fire on the 50-year-old Camacho and another man as they sat in a car in the city of Bayamon.
The other man, whose relationship to the former boxer wasn't immediately known, was killed.
Camacho was rushed to Centro Medico in San Juan, where he was in critical but stable condition, Dr. Ernesto Torres, the hospital director, said. The bullet apparently struck him in the jaw, exited his head and lodged in his right shoulder, fracturing two vertebrae, Torres said. The doctor said the boxer, who battled drug and alcohol problems during his career, was at risk of paralysis from the shooting.
"Camacho's condition is extremely delicate," he said. "His physical condition will help him but we will see."
No arrests have been made in the shooting, police said.
Camacho representative Steve Tannenbaum said he was told by friends at the hospital that the boxer would make it. "This guy is a cat with nine lives. He's been through so much," he said. "If anybody can pull through it will be him."
Camacho has a career record of 79-5-3, with his most recent fight coming in 2009.
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