Prosecutors not filing criminal charges in boxing death

Prosecutors have chosen not to charge a Vancouver boxer whose sparring match with a Chicago man left the man dead.

Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Scott Jackson said that after reviewing police reports, including witness interviews, he did not believe there was evidence to support a criminal charge.

“It appears to have been two individuals who boxed and it ended very tragically,” Jackson said Friday.

Salvador Flamenco, 38, a Chicago flight attendant, met a local resident on a fighting website and came here to spar at the Vancouver resident’s home. They boxed on Dec. 15 and also the next day, when Flamenco started becoming dizzy and lost consciousness, Vancouver police said.

People immediately called 911, and AMR Northwest ambulance paramedics took Flamenco to a local hospital, where he died.

The Clark County medical examiner conducted an autopsy and referred the case to Vancouver police’s Major Crime Unit.

Police in December declined to reveal the name of the person who boxed with Flamenco, the place where it happened, or how, saying the case was under active investigation.

Jackson on Friday declined to say why, specifically, he wasn’t going to file charges.