Boxing legend Macho Camacho declared brain dead after being shot

Former world boxing champion Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho has been declared ‘brain dead’ by doctors, it has been reported.

According to local paper El Nuevo Dia, the 50 year old has been taken off life support. A medic at the Rio Piedras Medical Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is quoted as saying: ‘His recovery would be a miracle. Medically, there is nothing we can do.’

He was being treated by wounds to the face and neck after being shot, although doctor have since revealed the bullets were deflected by his jaw and subsequently hit his spinal cord.

Camacho has been fighting for his life after he was shot in the face as he sat in his Ford Mustang outside a bar.

Doctors originally said he was in a stable condition but longtime friend and former manager Ismael Leandry later revealed his condition had worsened.

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. Reports claims drugs were found in the car.

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.