SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Famed Puerto Rican boxer Hector Macho Camacho is clinically brain dead, doctors said Thursday, but family members disagreed on whether to take him off life support and two of the fighters aunts said later that relatives had agreed to wait two more days.
Dr. Ernesto Torres said doctors had no more medical tests to perform on Camacho, 50, who was shot in the face Tuesday night.
We have done everything we could, said Torres, who is director of the Centro Medico trauma center in San Juan.
We have to tell the people of Puerto Rico and the entire world that Macho Camacho has died, he is brain dead.
He said at a news conference Thursday morning that Camachos father indicated he wanted the boxer taken off life support and his organs donated, but other relatives opposed the idea.
This is a very difficult moment, Torres said.
One of the fighters aunts, Aida Camacho, said Thursday evening that two of Camachos sisters had asked to have two more days to spend with him, and other family members had agreed even though they felt it was time to give in.
Im a person of a lot of faith, and I believe in miracles, but science has spoken, she said.
Another aunt, Blanca Camacho, also said the family had agreed to the wishes of the two sisters from New York to hold off on ending life support. But, she added, Theres nothing left here. Hes already dead.
Most of Camachos relatives left the hospital by Thursday night without commenting.