Selena Quintanilla-Pérez‘s killer, Yolanda SaldÃvar, has filed for parole practically 30 years after fatally capturing the Latin pop star on March 31, 1995, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
In keeping with a consultant for the Texas Division of Legal Justice, Saldivar, 64, is presently within the parole evaluate course of. Her eligibility date is March 30, 2025.Â
SaldÃvar, who served because the late star’s shut pal and president of her fan membership, allegedly killed Quintanilla-Pérez after her pal found she had embezzled a reported $30,000 from her clothes boutiques. Saldivar nonetheless denies ever stealing from Quintanilla-Pérez.
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Yolanda Saldivar has filed for parole, practically 30 years after fatally capturing the Latin pop star. (AP/Oxygen)
In keeping with The New York Put up, inmates on the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas – the place SaldÃvar is being held – instructed the outlet that she has been housed in protecting custody attributable to being a heavy goal amongst inmates.Â
“Everybody is aware of who Yolanda SaldÃvar is,” Marisol Lopez, who served time alongside her from 2017 to 2022, instructed the outlet. “There’s a bounty on her head, like everybody needs a bit of her. The guards hold her away from everybody else, as a result of she’s hated a lot. If she had been out [in general population], somebody would attempt to take her down.”
In February 2024, SaldÃvar sat down for a brand new jail interview featured in an Oxygen docuseries, “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets and techniques Between Them.”Â
“I feel it’s time to set the story straight,” SaldÃvar mentioned within the docuseries. “And I feel folks should know the reality.”
Yolanda Saldivar killed Quintanilla-Perez on March 31, 1995. (Oxygen)
SaldÃvar claims she had no intention of killing Quintanilla-Pérez, however as a substitute, she insisted she needed to finish her personal life. Nonetheless, in a collection of unlucky occasions, the gun allegedly went off and hit the 23-year-old as a substitute.
“It startled me,” SaldÃvar mentioned. “I didn’t know my gun went off. I didn’t know that it hit her. It scared her, it scared me. There was by no means ever any intention to do her any hurt.”
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“My choices had been my choices, and the results had been additionally mine,” she mentioned. “I’m regretful for all of that. If I might flip again time, if I might flip the clock, I feel quite a lot of issues wouldn’t be as they [are]. And I would like the folks to know I miss Selena identical to they do. A lot. However I do know I’ll see her once more in heaven. I do know I’ll. She didn’t should die.”
“I’m so sorry that she’s gone,” mentioned SaldÃvar. “I’m so sorry that her household is hurting. And I’m so sorry that my household is damage. At no level did I imply to harm anybody.”
Quintanilla was dubbed the “Mexican-American Madonna” throughout her profession. (Getty Photos)
The documentary obtained backlash from followers, in addition to the pop star’s household and pals.Â
Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla, instructed TMZ that the documentary contained “nothing however lies.”Â
“Nobody’s gonna consider what she has to say anyway,” the Quintanilla patriarch instructed the outlet on the time of it is launch. “Everybody is aware of there’s zero reality to something that comes out of her mouth.”
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SaldÃvar mentioned she was “convicted by public opinion” earlier than her trial even began.Â
“They’d been fed a story that isn’t right, that I used to be an embezzler, an obsessed fan,” Saldivar mentioned within the documentary. “My proper as a citizen of the US to be harmless till confirmed responsible was reversed from me.”
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“I used to be responsible. I wanted to show my innocence. I do know the folks had been hurting. And I do know that they love her. Little doubt. And I do know that they are nonetheless hurting. I do too. I feel Abraham took benefit of that sentiment, of that sympathy … to poison their minds.”
Fox Information Digital’s Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this put up.Â
