Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot in the head during a campaign event in the capital, Bogotá, on June 7.
A presidential hopeful, Uribe, 39, underwent an initial operation for his injuries, and remains in serious condition on June 8.
“He survived the procedure; these are critical moments and hours for his survival,” Bogota Mayor Carlos Galán said on Sunday.
The hospital treating Uribe said Sunday that he underwent neurosurgery and a procedure on his left thigh, and is recovering in intensive care. His condition was described as “extremely serious,” and his prognosis was reserved.
Uribe’s wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, said in a statement that her husband “continues to fight hard for his life, and I ask each of you to keep praying fervently.”
President Gustavo Petro ordered an investigation into the attack, which was carried out by a “minor under 15 years of age” who was “arrested for carrying a Glock pistol-type firearm,” the Colombian attorney general’s office said in a statement. The office said Uribe was shot twice and that two others were also wounded.
Uribe, who is a part of the opposition conservative Democratic Center party, was shot in the Fontibón neighborhood in the capital during a 2026 presidential campaign event, according to a party statement on the attack.
“Armed subjects shot him from behind,” stated the party, which described the shooting as serious.
In various videos on social media, Uribe can be seen bleeding from his head while being tended to after the shooting.

People, some carrying the nation’s flag, gathered to pray and stage candlelight vigils at the Santa Fe Foundation Hospital, where the senator is being treated.
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting, and authorities are investigating if others could have been involved, Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez said, adding that he had visited Uribe in the hospital.
The Colombian government is offering a roughly $730,000 reward to anyone with information on the shooting.
The government “categorically and forcefully” condemned the violent attack and is pushing for a complete investigation, Colombia’s presidency said in a statement.
In a post on X, Petro told the senator’s family that he doesn’t “know how to ease” their pain. “It is the pain of a mother lost, and of a homeland,” he said.
Later on the night of June 7, Petro said the suspect arrested was a minor and that a probe into the attack would focus on who had ordered it.
“For now, there is nothing more than hypothesis,” he said during a speech. Any security protocols that failed would also be investigated, the president added.
Petro vowed to have “complete transparency” in the investigation and to determine if any of the senator’s bodyguards had failed to protect Uribe.
In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the attempted assassination” of Uribe. He said Petro’s “inflammatory rhetoric” was responsible for the attack.
Coming from a major family in Colombia, Uribe was not yet an official presidential candidate for the Democratic Center party. His family included a businessman and union leader father, and his mother, journalist Diana Turbay, who was killed during a rescue operation in 1991 after she was kidnapped a year prior by an armed group.
That group was sent by the late cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Conflict among the government, criminal groups, and various political rebels has endured in Colombia for decades.
According to Gen. Carlos Triana, director of the National Police of Colombia, Uribe was being accompanied by Bogotá Councilman Andrés Barrios and 20 others at the time of the shooting. The minor who was arrested is being treated for a leg injury, he said.
“I have ordered the Colombian military and police forces and intelligence agencies to deploy all their capabilities to urgently clarify the facts,” Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez said.