Colombia Presidential Hopeful Uribe Dies After June Shooting

Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, a Colombian presidential hopeful who had warned that the nation was slipping back into its violent past, died two months after being gunned down while campaigning in Bogotá. He was 39.

Uribe was shot in the head while speaking to supporters in the capital’s Modelia neighborhood on June 7. Several neurosurgeries since the attack failed to save him, and he passed away at around 2 a.m. on Monday.

“Rest in peace, love of my life,” Maria Claudia Tarazona, his wife wrote in an Instagram post.

Authorities have detained six people, including a teenager who was apprehended at the scene and formally charged this month with attempted murder and illegal possession of a weapon. The investigation is ongoing and it remains unclear who ordered the murder.

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