Colombian presidential candidate and conservative senator Miguel Uribe Turbay has died two months after being shot in the head during a campaign rally.
Uribe, 39, passed away on Monday, August 11, at a hospital in Bogotá, the nation’s capital, his wife María Claudia Tarazona confirmed.
“Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children,” Tarazona wrote in a heartfelt social media post. “I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you.”
The attack occurred on June 7 while Uribe was delivering a campaign speech in a park in a working-class neighborhood of Bogotá. He was struck by three bullets—two to the head—and had been in intensive care since, experiencing only brief signs of improvement.
Authorities arrested a 15-year-old suspect at the scene of the shooting and have since detained several others in connection with the attack.
