Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies two months after the attack.

BarcelonaThe senator and Colombian presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay died this Monday, two months after the attack. which left him in very critical condition, according to his wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, on social media. Uribe, 39, was shot twice in the head and once in the left leg while holding a rally in Bogotá, in a political attack for which a 15-year-old boy, the alleged perpetrator of the crime, was initially arrested. The Prosecutor's Office has linked five other adults to the events, who are believed to have participated in planning and covering up the crime.

After two months in critical condition, admitted to a hospital in the Colombian capital, this Saturday Uribe suffered a hemorrhage in his nervous system, according to the Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation. "In the last 48 hours his clinical condition has reverted to a critical state, due to an episode of hemorrhage in the central nervous system. This situation has required new urgent neurosurgical procedures that have managed to stabilize him," the Foundation said in a medical report, according to Efe. And he detailed that his condition had "required restarting neuromuscular blockade and deep sedation to help his progress. He will continue with permanent hemodynamic and neurological monitoring."

Uribe Turbay, a member of the right-wing Democratic Center party who wanted to run for president, underwent another surgery on July 16, from which he came out "well," according to his wife, María Claudia Tarazona. But he did not survive the new complications.

The Prosecutor's Office has linked five adults as suspects of participating in the planning and cover-up of the crime, among them Elder José Arteaga Hernández, alias the Coastal, considered a key figure and alleged coordinator of the attack. Additionally, at the end of last July, a 17-year-old boy, who allegedly participated in the planning meetings for the attack and who had appeared before the Prosecutor's Office, left the state juvenile protection center where he was being held, reports Efe. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the young man had participated in the aforementioned meetings and signed a "voluntary commitment to further interrogation," for which he had been placed under "a protection measure" by the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), from which he escaped.

Miguel Uribe, 39, was the son of Diana Turbay, a journalist who died in 1991 during a rescue operation after being kidnapped by drug trafficker Pablo Escobar. His grandfather, Julio César Turbay, was president between 1978 and 1982. However, although they share a surname, he was not related to Álvaro Uribe, who was president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010.