BOGOTA, Colombia -- A Colombian senator and presidential hopeful whose shooting at a political rally in June recalled some of the darkest chapters of the country's drug-fueled violence died Monday.

The family of Miguel Uribe Turbay said the politician died at a hospital in the capital, Bogota. Uribe, 39, was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park and had since remained in an intensive care unit in serious condition with episodes of slight improvement.

"Rest in peace, love of my life. I will take care of our children," his wife, María Claudia Tarazona, wrote in a social media post confirming his death. "I ask God to show me the way to learn to live without you."

A teenage suspect was arrested at the scene of the June 7 attack in a working-class Bog

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