The Colombian conservative senator Miguel Uribe Turbay has died on Monday two months after receiving two shots in the head from a teenager during a campaign rally in the capital of the country, Bogotá.
“I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you”, His wife, María Claudia Tarazona, wrote in social networks. “Wait for me, that when my promise with our children, I will go looking for you and we will have our second chance. Rest in peace love of my life, I will take care of our children “, added.
Uribe Turbay, 39, had announced in the weeks prior to the attack his intention to run for the country’s presidency next year. A 15 -year -old, probably hired as a hitman, He shot him while he was on the street next to some supporters. The politician was transferred to the hospital, where he has been fighting between life and death for two months.
On August 9, the Medical Center of the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá – where it has been admitted since then – announced a worsening of its health status due to “a hemorrhage in the central nervous system.” Hemorrhage forced the senator under “deep sedation to contribute to its evolution.”
The previous medical part took place on July 14, when the medical center reported that the senator was exhibiting “a favorable and stable clinical response, and had initiated a” neurorehabilitation protocol. “
The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office said At least ten people were involved in the preparation and execution of the senator attackof which six have already been subject to judicial actions. Among them is Elder José Arteaga Hernández, aka ‘El Costeño’, alleged intellectual author of the attack.
