A newly launched post-mortem report confirms that Selena Quintanilla died from a single gunshot that brought about huge inside bleeding, 30 years after the Tejano music famous person was shot by her good friend and enterprise affiliate.
The Nueces County, Texas, Medical Examiner’s Workplace formally dominated the 23-year-old singer’s 1995 demise by the hands of Yolanda Saldívar a murder.
“It’s my opinion that Selena Quintanilla Pérez, a 23-year-old girl, got here to her demise on account of an exsanguinating inside and exterior hemorrhage, in different phrases huge bleeding, as a result of a perforating gunshot wound of the thorax (chest),” coroner Lloyd White wrote within the post-mortem, which was obtained by Us Weekly.
Quintanilla was fatally shot at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995.
The singer’s demise is gaining renewed consideration this week as Netflix launched a documentary on Monday titled “Selena y Los Dinos: A Household’s Legacy” to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of her homicide.
The documentary options never-before-seen footage and interviews together with her household three many years after she was gunned down.
Saldívar, a former nurse and enterprise affiliate who had embezzled cash whereas working the singer’s fan membership, fired a .38-caliber revolver at Quintanilla throughout a confrontation over lacking monetary information.
The bullet entered the singer’s again, traveled by way of her ribs and higher lung, then exited by way of the higher proper chest, based on the post-mortem report cited by Us Weekly.
The coroner wrote that the bullet severed Quintanilla’s subclavian artery, inflicting huge inside bleeding.
The medical report famous that blood was “current over many areas of the garments” Quintanilla wore that day.
Saldívar had began as a fan earlier than convincing Quintanilla’s father to let her run the singer’s fan membership in San Antonio.
She later took on administration duties on the household’s boutique in Corpus Christi.
That relationship soured in early 1995 when the Quintanilla household found hundreds of {dollars} lacking from each the fan membership and the shop. Saldívar was fired from the boutique and faraway from her fan membership place that March.
Within the weeks earlier than the killing, Saldívar purchased a Taurus Mannequin 85 revolver from a San Antonio gun vary, returned it, then bought it once more shortly earlier than the homicide.
On March 30, she checked into the Days Inn and known as Quintanilla, claiming she had been raped and wanted at hand over enterprise paperwork.
Quintanilla first met Saldívar on the motel together with her husband, Chris Pérez, however Saldívar didn’t hand over the information she had promised.
The next day, Quintanilla went again on her personal after telling a enterprise affiliate she supposed to choose up fragrance samples and the lacking monetary paperwork.
She even drove Saldívar to a hospital after Saldívar claimed she’d been raped, although employees instructed them the examination would have to be executed elsewhere.
After they returned to the motel, Quintanilla requested once more for the paperwork. As an alternative, Saldívar pulled out a revolver and fired.
Wounded, Quintanilla managed to run to the foyer for assist as Saldívar chased her.
Paramedics took her to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless at about 1:05 p.m.
Saldívar then barricaded herself in her truck within the motel car parking zone, threatening to hurt herself. After almost 10 hours, she lastly surrendered to FBI negotiators.
She was later charged with first-degree homicide and pleaded not responsible, claiming the capturing was unintended. A jury convicted her in October 1995 and he or she was sentenced to life in jail with the opportunity of parole.
Now 64, Saldívar is serving her sentence in a girls’s jail in Gatesville, Texas. She sought parole in December 2024, however the request was denied three months later. She stays incarcerated.
