{"id":1541079,"date":"2025-06-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1541079"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:00:00","slug":"gun-used-in-shooting-colombian-presidential-candidate-traced-to-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/gun-used-in-shooting-colombian-presidential-candidate-traced-to-arizona\/1541079\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Used In Shooting Colombian Presidential Candidate Traced To Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Used In Shooting Colombian Presidential Candidate Traced To Arizona<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Yeny Sora Robles via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

The pistol used to shoot Colombian presidential candidate Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay was purchased in the U.S. state of Arizona,<\/strong> the South American country\u2019s top police officer said Monday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Forensic experts work at the crime scene where Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot and wounded in the Modelia neighborhood in Bogota on June 7, 2025. Raul Arboleda\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking at a press event, Gen. Carlos Fernando Triana of the Colombian National Police said, \u201cAccording to the verification carried out by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, within the framework of international cooperation, the firearm was purchased on August 6, 2020, in Arizona, United States, that is, it was purchased legally<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s media event follows Uribe\u2019s being shot twice at close range in the head and once in the leg during a pre-campaign event in the Modelia neighborhood of Bogot\u00e1 on Saturday. Uribe, 39, who is of the conservative Centro Democr\u00e1tico party, remains hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n

El momento en que el disparan contra @MiguelUribeT<\/a>, senador, precandidato presidencial y nieto del expresidente Julio C\u00e9sar Turbay, durante un mitin en Bogot\u00e1 https:\/\/t.co\/dVWNPngstZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pascal (@beltrandelrio) June 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Triana further told the media that the Colombian Attorney General\u2019s Office is investigating the shooting with the assistance of the country\u2019s army and international cooperation to investigate how the weapon entered the country.<\/p>\n

Luz Adriana Camargo Garz\u00f3n, attorney general of Colombia, told the media event that investigators are also trying to identify whether the firearm used against Uribe has been involved in other similar attacks.<\/p>\n

The alleged shooter, a 15-year-old boy from a poor neighborhood in Bogot\u00e1, was shot in the leg by police as he attempted to flee the scene and was captured.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The motive behind the attack remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Condition Is \u2018Extremely Serious\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u00a0The Santa Fe Foundation clinic, which is treating Uribe, issued a statement about his condition early on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter completing the neurosurgical and left thigh procedures, he was transferred to intensive care for postoperative stabilization. His condition is extremely serious, and the prognosis is reserved,\u201d the foundation stated <\/a>on Monday.<\/p>\n

His wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, sent a message asking people to pray for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiguel is currently fighting for his life. Let us ask God to guide the hands of the doctors who are treating him. I ask everyone to join us in a chain of prayer for Miguel\u2019s life. I put my faith in God<\/strong>,\u201d she said in a post<\/a>\u00a0on X.<\/p>\n

Uribe is the son of journalist Diana Turbay, who was kidnapped by Pablo Escobar\u2019s Medell\u00edn cartel and killed during a botched rescue operation in 1991. He is also the grandson of former President Julio C\u00e9sar Turbay, who served as the country\u2019s leader from 1978 to 1982. Uribe was a councilman in Bogot\u00e1, secretary of government in Enrique Pe\u00f1alosa\u2019s mayoral office, and, since 2022, has held a seat in the Senate for the Democratic Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/11\/2025 – 05:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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