Colombian presidential candidate and senator Miguel Uribe, who was shot during a public meeting in Bogota in June, has died after spending two months in intensive care and undergoing several surgeries, his wife announced Monday.

"You will always be the love of my life. Thank you for a life full of love," Claudia Tarazona wrote on her Instagram account, adding: "Rest in peace (...), I will watch over our children."

Miguel Uribe, a 39-year-old conservative, was shot twice in the head and once in the leg by a 15-year-old suspected hitman while giving a speech in the capital on June 7.

"Today is a sad day for the country," Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez said in a message on the social network X on Monday. "Violence cannot continue to mark our destiny. Democracy is not built with bullets or blood, it is built with respect, with dialogue," she added.

A member of the Democratic Center party of former right-wing President Alvaro Uribe, with whom he is not related, Miguel Uribe announced in October his wish to run in the May 2026 presidential election to succeed left-wing President Gustavo Petro.

The clinic where he was hospitalized announced on Saturday that his condition had "become critical again" following another cerebral hemorrhage.

The attack revived fears that Colombia was returning to the violence of the 1980s and 1990s, when political killings and attacks were commonplace.

The teenager accused of being the author of the shooting is in custody, along with two other people suspected of complicity. All have been charged by the prosecutor's office with attempted homicide and illegal possession of weapons. None have admitted the facts.