On This Day

In Boxing History!

      2012: Hector "Macho" Camacho Was Shot

Sitting In a Parked Car

Outside A Bar In Bayamon, Puerto Rico!

Hector Camacho

Born: May 24th, 1962

Birth Name: Héctor Luís Camacho Matías

Birth Place: Bayamon, Puerto Rico

Residence: New York, New York

Pro-Debut: September 12th, 1980

Alias: Macho

Division: Lightweight

Stance: Southpaw

Height: 5′ 6½″  

Reach: 69″  

Pro Boxing Career - 1980-2010

Bouts: 88

Record: 79-6-3, 38Ko’s      

Died: Age 50, November 24th, 2012

Amateur Record: 96-4

New York Daily News Golden Gloves

Open Bantamweight Champion

1979-1980

WBC Super Featherweight Champion

1983 Aug 7 – 1984

WBC Lightweight Champion

1985 Aug 10 – 1987

WBO Light Welterweight Champion

1989 Mar 6 – 1991 Feb 23

WBO Light Welterweight Champion

1991 May 18 – 1992

On November 20th, 2012, Hector “Macho” Camacho and his friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, were sitting in a black Ford Mustang in Bayamon, P.R. when two men drove by and shot multiple times into the car.

Moreno was shot twice and died at the scene while Camacho shot in the face and shoulder was immediately rushed to the nearby Puerto Rico Medical Center, where doctors also found Camacho to also have sustained fractured his vertebrae in the shooting. Both attackers fled the scene after the shooting, and they were never caught by Puerto Rican law enforcement.

Age 50, Camacho having suffered a heart attack was declared braindead was taken off life support and died November 24th, 2012 four days after the shooting.

Note:

March 10th, 2022, 5 suspects were finally arrested a decade after killing of iconic boxer Héctor "Macho" Camacho.

June 10th, 2022, the Hector 'Macho' Camacho murder case was dismissed after star witness flees. San Juan, Puerto Rico — A judge dismissed a case against five suspects charged in the 2012 killing of renowned Puerto Rican boxer Héctor “Macho” Camacho after authorities said the star witness fled the island.

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2012: Hector Camacho and a friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, were shot while sitting in a parked car outside a bar in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. After being declared brain dead, he was taken off life support and died, November 24th.

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