The teenager “Sicario” is suspected of shooting the Colombian Senator Crime news

Police believed that the 15 -year -old was arrested to try to kill Senator Miguel Urie, a murderer working for money.

A 15 -year -old boy accused of trying to assassinate the Colombian Senator and the presidential candidate Miguel Orepe The Prosecutor’s Office said that “it is not guilty.”

On Tuesday, the teenager was accused of trying to kill the 39 -year -old conservative president Fighting for his life In a critical condition in the hospital.

The teenager – who the police believed to be “Sicario” or a working killer for money – was also charged with carrying a firearm.

“No family in Colombia should go through this,” said Uriby’s wife, Maria Claudia Tarazona, to reporters outside the hospital where her husband is treated.

“There is no name for this – it’s not pain, it is not horror, it is not sadness,” she said.

The father of Senator, Miguel Orepe Londo, thanked “millions of Colombians and people all over the world for their prayers.”

His father added, “Miguel, amid the pain and dismay that overwhelmed us, was able to unite this country with a single voice that rejects violence.”

It is not known why Senator Urby, who was competing for his party’s nomination. He was well skipped behind other party candidates at the time of the shooting.

Footage of the place of fire showed Urbey to address supporters in the west of the capital, Bogota, when a young man rushed to him at least eight shots. Urby was hit twice in the head and once in the leg.

The alleged striker was arrested by the security guards and the GLOCK 9M pistol was recovered.

In a video clip of the arrest of the teenager, which was independently verified by Reuters news agency, the suspect can be heard screaming that he was appointed by a local drug dealer.

A previous video clip showed that while the suspect, who was wounded, escaped from the scene, a voice could be heard, “I did it for money, for my family.”

But in court, the teenager refused the charges of attempted murder and possessing an illegal firearm. If convicted, he faces up to eight years in a rehabilitation center, not prison, because he is a minor.

Also on Tuesday, Colombia rocked the attacks of bombs and gun in the southwest of the country, where at least seven people were killed in a wave of violence that echoed early decades when armed fighters, paramilitary groups and drug dealers were common.

The bombs and gun attacks are likely to be caused by an armed group divided from the revolutionary rebels in Colombia (FARC), according to the army and the police.

Meanwhile, Colombian President Gustavo Petro has widely finger in the international crime episode as behind the attack on Urby, without providing details or evidence.

The Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedte has suggested that there may be a link to the assassination attempt, as the rebels have increasingly turned into drug smuggling to finance their activities, although he did not provide evidence.

President Petro ordered the strengthening security of government officials and opposition leaders in response to the attacks.

Orepe was a strong critic of the Petro security strategy, which aims to end six decades of armed conflict, on the pretext that Petro’s approach to stopping the attack on armed groups despite the failure of peace talks only.

The head of the National Protection Unit said that Senator had two personal guards by the government to protect him at the time of the shooting.

Uriby’s lawyer, Vistor Mouswara, said that his client has repeatedly requested more personal guards.