BOGOTA, Colombia — A 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.

The sentence, announced by Colombia's Attorney General's 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’s drug-fueled violence.

The Attorney General's 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.

Uribe was shot three times, twice in the head, while giving a campaign sp

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