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Former world boxing champion Hector 'Macho' Camacho was shot in the face as he sat in a car outside the Puerto Rican capital yesterday.
Doctors said he was in serious condition and longtime friend and former manager Ismael Leandry has revealed his condition has worsened and he could be taken off life support.
Leandry says that doctors are waiting for Camacho's mother to decide whether he should be taken off life support. She was expected to arrive Wednesday morning at San Juan's Centro Medico from the US mainland.
Another man in the car, whose believed to be a friend of the 50-year-old, died in the attack in which at least one gunman opened fire on their vehicle in the city of Bayamon, according to a statement from police.
Camacho was rushed to Centro Medico, the trauma center in San Juan, where he was initially in a critical but stable condition, Dr. Ernesto Torres, the hospital director, told reporters.
The bullet apparently struck him in the jaw but exited his head and lodged in his right shoulder and fractured two vertebrae, Torres said.
The doctor said the boxer, who was trailed by drug and alcohol problems during a career that included some high-profile bouts, could be paralyzed from the shooting.
'Camacho's condition is extremely delicate,' he told Telenoticias. 'His physical condition will help him but we will see.'
No arrests have been made in the shooting, police said.
Originally, 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.'
The fighter's last title bout came against then-welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya in 1997, a loss by unanimous decision.
Tannenbaum said he was going to fight two years ago in Denmark until his opponent pulled out and that they were looking at a possible bout in 2013.
'We were talking comeback even though he is 50,' he said. 'I felt he was capable of it.'
Camacho was born in Bayamon, one of the cities that make up the San Juan metropolitan area. He won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s.
Camacho has fought other high-profile bouts in his career against Felix Trinidad, Julio Cesar Chavez and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Camacho knocked out Leonard in 1997, ending what was that former champ's final comeback attempt.
While arresting him on the burglary charge in January 2005, police also found the drug ecstasy.
A judge eventually suspended all but one year of the sentence and gave Camacho probation. He wound up serving two weeks in jail, though, after violating that probation.
Twice his wife filed domestic abuse complaints against him, and she filed for divorce several years ago.
