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<\/p>\nA teenager who admitted shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay during a political rally was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years of detention at a youth rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n
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The sentence, announced by Colombia\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s Office, comes more than two weeks after Uribe died from the injuries he suffered in the June 7 attack. The shooting alarmed Colombians, recalling some of the darkest chapters of the country\u2019s drug-fueled violence.<\/p>\n
The Attorney General\u2019s Office in a statement said the charges against the 15-year-old boy included attempted homicide and the manufacture, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms, accessories, parts or ammunition.<\/p>\n
Uribe was shot three times<\/a><\/span>, twice in the head, while giving a campaign speech in a park in a working-class neighborhood in the capital, Bogota. He remained in an intensive care unit in serious condition with episodes of slight improvement until his death on Aug. 11.<\/p>\n Authorities arrested the teenager near the crime scene. They later took into custody five other people, but they have not determined who ordered the attack or why.<\/p>\n The shooting, caught on multiple videos, alarmed Colombians who have not seen this kind of political violence against presidential candidates since Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar<\/a><\/span> declared war on the state in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n