Selena was seriously injured at the Days Inn hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, on the morning of March 31, 1995.. Minutes later, the Queen of Tel-Mex finally died as a result of the shot that Yolanda Saldívar caused himand that lethally affected one of his arteries, which caused severe bleeding that resulted in death.
What is known is that after being injured, Selena tried to flee from Yolanda Saldívar and collapsed in search of help.. Staff from the ranch collaborated in making the emergency call, while the aggressor perpetrated herself in her vehicle.
The conflict between the singer and her worker was due to the fact that the latter had already been confronted by the Quintanilla family for fraudulent financial dealings with the assets of the young artistin addition, that various fan clubs had also expressed mistreatment and jealousy of the administratorregarding the coexistence and approaches that the star had with her audience.
Yolanda Saldívar was arrested and sentenced for the murder of Selena; after various trials and defenses, Texas authorities would have put the year 2025 as a possible release datehowever, the singer’s own father, Abraham Quintanilla has expressed on several occasions that freeing his daughter’s murderer would be a delicate decision.since for years the aggressor has received death threats if he is released from prison.
What is Yolanda Saldivar? Could she leave jail?
Throughout the years, Saldívar has granted television interviews to various media outlets, where has maintained his innocence and has insisted that the singer’s murder was an accident. However, in an interview with Univisión, Yolanda Saldívar said that “I wanted to fake an assault to avoid going to jail, and to avoid paying her about $200,000 that she had stolen during her management of Selena’s clothing stores”.
After murdering Selena in a Texas motel, Saldívar was sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison in October 1995.. It should be remembered that despite life sentence, Saldívar could get parole in 2025.
Saldívar was a nurse, but she quit her job to focus on Selena’s fan club and later became the manager of the singer’s clothing stores.Although the family later found out that Saldívar had been stealing money from the businesses, they fired her.
At the moment, Saldívar is 62 years old and is being held in a maximum security prison located in Gasteville, Texas. Until now little is known about Saldívar, since She is always alone, as she has received death threats from other prisoners who are admirers of Selena..
Killer tried to appeal his life sentence in 2014, arguing that he had serious health problems. His request was denied because he was unable to verify his claim.
During the more than 27 years that she has spent in prison, Yolanda Saldívar has given several interviews in which she maintains her innocence, arguing that it was all an accident and that she never wanted to shoot Selena. She has on several occasions told the police and the media that: “She told me: ‘Yolanda, I don’t want you to kill yourself.’ She opened the door. When I told her to close it, the gun went off.”.
In 2015, the US media spread false news about the murderer, since on two different occasions it was reported that Yolanda Saldívar had died in prison, which had to be denied by the prison authorities.
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