5 suspects arrested a decade after killing of iconic boxer Héctor "Macho" Camacho
CBSN
With heads bowed and surrounded by heavily armed police, the first suspects arrested nearly a decade after the fatal shooting of iconic Puerto Rico boxer Héctor Camacho appeared in court Wednesday to face murder charges.
Five men are accused in the slaying of the fighter nicknamed "Macho Camacho" and a friend while they sat in a Ford Mustang outside a bar in November 2012, a killing that shocked many who revered the boxer.
Three of the suspects were serving federal sentences for unrelated crimes and were flown in from Florida as part of what police called "Operation Knockout." A fourth suspect was arrested in the pre-dawn hours in the same city where Camacho was killed, emerging with only a towel wrapped around his waist just minutes after police with long weapons surrounded his house and knocked on a window. A fifth suspect remains in a Puerto Rico prison for an unrelated case.
