Selena’s Killer Seeks Parole 30 Years After Singer’s Death

Selena‘s killer is looking for parole.

Yolanda Saldíva is serving a life sentence for murdering the American Tejano singer in 1995. Saldíva was an ex-employee of Selena’s and an obsessed fan. Saldíva shot the “Dreaming of You” singer to loss of life in a lodge room in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Saldíva is at present serving her time with the Texas Division of Prison Justice on the Patrick L. O’Daniel unit in Gainsville. A former inmate claims that Saldíva has a “bounty” on her head for killing Selena.

In response to The New York Publish, Saldívar has filed the required paperwork in an try and be paroled in 2025. Saldívar reportedly has nothing on her document that will cease the parole board from holding a March listening to.

Saldívar, 64, claims that she shot the Grammy Award winner by chance. The “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” singer had accused Saldívar — who was the president of the then 23-year-old’s fan membership — of embezzling greater than $60,000 from her. Selena was shot to loss of life within the lodge room of a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after confronting Saldívar.

After being shot, Selena ran to the foyer and collapsed. Her final phrases have been reportedly, “Yolanda … 158,” per PEOPLE. A movie in regards to the tragedy starring Jennifer Lopez was launched in 1997.

The household of Selena will reportedly obtain a discover in regards to the parole listening to in January.

Saldívar is reportedly a goal in jail for murdering the beloved singer.

A former inmate on the Patrick L. O’Daniel unit, Marisol Lopez, claims that “everybody” is aware of who Saldívar is, and so they all need “a bit.” Lopez additionally maintains that the jail guards separate Saldívar from the final inhabitants within the jail for her security.

“Everybody is aware of who Yolanda Saldívar is,” stated Lopez. “There’s a bounty on her head. Like, everybody needs a bit of her. The guards preserve her away from everybody else as a result of she’s hated a lot. If she have been out, somebody would attempt to take her down.”

One other ex-inmate, Yesenia Dominguez, claimed that Saldívar was usually a subject of dialogue within the jail yard for the inmates.

“Everybody was all the time like, ‘Let me have 5 minutes with that b—tch,’” stated Dominguez. “Everybody needed to get justice for Selena. There’s a goal on her again.”

Selena started performing along with her siblings of their band, Selena y Los Dinos, as a baby. In 1993, she received a Grammy Award for Finest Mexican-American Album for “Selena Reside!” on the thirty sixth Annual Grammy Awards in New York Metropolis.

The singer’s Instagram fan account famous the event with a remembrance submit final March.

The submit was captioned, “It was this 12 months, 30 years in the past, Selena traveled to New York attending the thirty sixth Annual Grammys Awards and successful within the class for ‘Mexican/American Album of the 12 months’ for “Selena: Reside! Relive this memorable live performance on all her official digital platforms. #SelenaLive1993 #GrammyWinner #SelenaYLosDinos.”

Selena acquired a star on The Hollywood Stroll of Fame on November 3, 2017, in Hollywood, CA.

In attendance have been members of her band together with her sister, Suzette Quintanilla, her brother, A.B. Quintanilla III, and Selena’s widower and former bandmate, Chris Perez.

The household celebrates Selena with annual musical tributes celebrating the singer. Her father, Abraham Quintanilla, says that his daughter continues to usher in new followers years after her premature passing.

“Over time, the brand new generations have found her and have fallen in love along with her,” he stated. “Selena’s life was reduce brief, however her followers have carried her all through the years and her legacy is being handed on from technology to technology. That in itself is unimaginable.”

Quintanilla stated throughout an interview with Univision’s Primer Impacto in 2018 that he receives letters from inmates eager to kill Saldívar for murdering the “Queen of Tejano Music.”

“To at the present time, we nonetheless obtain letters from girls who’re in the identical jail the place they are saying they’re ready for her,” he stated. “They are saying that they will kill her. There are dangerous girls in there. Ladies who’ve murdered different folks up to now. That’s the reason they’re in there. They don’t have anything to lose.”