This mix of images exhibits Yolanda Saldívar (from left), who’s serving a life sentence on the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit jail in Gatesville, Texas, and Tejano music star Selena posing in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 7, 1995.
Texas Division of Legal Justice; Paul Howell/Houston Chronicle/AP
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Texas Division of Legal Justice; Paul Howell/Houston Chronicle/AP
HOUSTON — The lady convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending a long time behind bars for fatally taking pictures the younger singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board introduced Thursday.
Yolanda Saldívar will proceed serving a life sentence at a jail in Gatesville, Texas, after a three-member panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to not launch her. In a press release explaining the denial, the board mentioned the panel discovered that Saldívar continues to pose a risk to public security and that the character of the crime indicated “a acutely aware disregard for the lives, security, or property of others.”
Her case can be eligible to be reviewed once more for parole in 2030.
The singer recognized to her followers as merely Selena was one of many first Mexican-People to make it into the mainstream music scene and was on the verge of crossing over into the English-language pop market when she was killed.
Saldívar based Selena’s fan membership and had been the supervisor of the singer’s clothes boutiques, Selena And many others., till she was fired in early March 1995 after cash was found lacking.
Selena, a Corpus Christi native, was 23 years outdated when she was shot within the again with a .38-caliber revolver at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi on March 31, 1995. She was in a position to run to the motel foyer the place she collapsed, and he or she was pronounced useless at a hospital an hour later.
Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla performs on the Astrodome through the Houston Livestock Present and Rodeo on Feb. 26, 1995.
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Motel staff testified that Selena named “Yolanda” in “room 158” as her attacker.
“I did not imply to do it. I did not imply to kill anyone,” a sobbing Saldívar mentioned throughout a nine-hour standoff with police. She instructed police she had purchased the .38-caliber revolver to kill herself.
Greater than 50,000 folks lined as much as view Selena’s physique the day earlier than she was laid to relaxation in Seaside Memorial Park on April 3, 1995, simply 13 days earlier than her twenty fourth birthday.
Saldívar’s trial was moved to Houston due to the publicity surrounding the case. Saldívar testified that she had supposed to kill herself through the confrontation with Selena, however that the gun misfired.
On October 23, 1995, a jury in Houston convicted Saldívar of first-degree homicide. She was sentenced to life in jail with the potential of parole after 30 years.
Whereas in jail, Saldívar — a former nurse — obtained her paralegal and affiliate diploma in felony justice and has filed a number of civil rights complaints alleging mistreatment by the state’s jail system, in keeping with court docket information. She additionally helped different inmates to file petitions.
In court docket paperwork filed in 2016, Saldívar mentioned she was being held in protecting custody — that means she was segregated from different inmates — as a result of jail officers had been involved for her security because of the “excessive profile” nature of her case. She filed a number of appeals of her conviction however all had been rejected.
A star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame for the late singer Selena Quintanilla is pictured following a ceremony on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles.
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Selena — “the Queen of Tejano” — rose to stardom and received a Grammy throughout a Tejano music increase within the early Nineteen Nineties. Her hits embody “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” “Como la Flor,” “Amor Prohibido,” “No Me Queda Mas” and “Tu Solo Tu.”
Dreaming of You, her English-language crossover album launched a couple of months after her loss of life, topped the Billboard 200, and featured hits “I Might Fall in Love” and “Dreaming of You.” Jennifer Lopez performed the singer in Selena, a 1997 biopic.
The Grammys awarded Selena a posthumous lifetime achievement award in 2021.
