Doctors at the Centro Medico trauma centre in San Juan were conducting additional tests to determine whether he was brain dead, according to said Ismael Leandry, a longtime friend and former manager who has been at the hospital with family members.
“He’s battling minute to minute. This is the most important fight of his life,” Dr Ernesto Torres, director of the Centro Medico trauma centre in San Juan, saod outside the hospital in the Puerto Rican capital.
Doctors initially had said Camacho was in critical, but stable condition and expected to survive after he was shot on Tuesday night in the city of Bayamon. But his condition worsened overnight and his heart stopped at one point, Torres said.
The 50-year-old Camacho was shot as he and a friend sat in a Ford Mustang parked outside a bar. Police spokesman Alex Diaz said officers found nine small bags of cocaine in the friend’s pocket, and a 10th bag open inside the car.
The specialists will then consult with other doctors and Camacho’s mother, who flew in Wednesday from New York, to discuss whether he should be removed from life support, said Ismael Leandry, a longtime friend and former manager who was also at the hospital.
“We just have to wait to see if ‘Macho’ gets better. It’s a hard battle,” Leandry told AP.
