Overview

• Prosecutors charged Carlos Eduardo Mora Gonzalez with attempted murder for allegedly driving the vehicle that delivered the gun and scouting the scene two days before the attack
• The 15-year-old suspect remains in custody after saying he acted “for money, for my family” and could face up to eight years under juvenile sentencing laws
• Miguel Uribe Turbay has shown signs of improvement in hospital as doctors monitor his critical head and leg wounds
• Investigators have not yet identified who ordered the hit and are probing possible links to dissident FARC factions or international crime networks
• Colombia is facing its most severe security crisis in a decade, with recent coordinated bomb and gun attacks intensifying violence in the southwest