HOUSTON (AP) — The lady convicted of killing Tejano tune legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending a long time at the back of 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 lifestyles sentence at a jail in Gatesville, Texas, after a three-member panel of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted not to liberate her. In a remark explaining the denial, the board mentioned the panel discovered that Saldívar continues to pose a risk to public protection and that the character of the crime indicated “a aware forget for the lives, protection, or assets of others.”
Her case can be eligible to be reviewed once more for parole in 2030.
The singer identified to her fanatics as merely Selena was once some of the first Mexican-American citizens to make it into the mainstream tune scene and was once at the verge of crossing over into the English-language pop marketplace when she was once killed.
Saldívar based Selena’s fan membership and were the chief of the singer’s clothes boutiques, Selena And so on., till she was once fired in early March 1995 after cash was once came upon lacking.
Selena a Corpus Christi local, was once 23 years outdated when she was once shot within the again with a .38-caliber revolver at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi on March 31, 1995. She was once ready to run to the motel foyer the place she collapsed, and he or she was once pronounced lifeless at a sanatorium an hour later.
Motel workers testified that Selena named “Yolanda” in “room 158” as her attacker.
“I didn’t imply to do it. I didn’t imply to kill anyone,” a sobbing Saldívar mentioned all through a nine-hour standoff with police. She instructed police she had purchased the .38-caliber revolver to kill herself.
Greater than 50,000 folks coated as much as view Selena’s frame the day sooner than she was once laid to relaxation in Beach Memorial Park on April 3, 1995, simply 13 days sooner than her twenty fourth birthday.
Saldívar’s trial was once moved to Houston as a result of the exposure surrounding the case. Saldívar testified that she had supposed to kill herself all through the disagreement with Selena, however that the gun misfired.
On October 23, 1995, a jury in Houston convicted Saldívar of first-degree homicide. She was once sentenced to lifestyles in jail with the potential of parole after 30 years.
Whilst in jail, Saldívar — a former nurse — bought her paralegal and affiliate diploma in legal justice and has filed a number of civil rights court cases alleging mistreatment by way of the state’s jail gadget, consistent with courtroom data. She additionally helped different inmates to record petitions.
In courtroom paperwork filed in 2016, Saldívar mentioned she was once being held in protecting custody — which means she was once segregated from different inmates — as a result of jail officers had been involved for her protection because of the “top profile” nature of her case. She filed a number of appeals of her conviction however all had been rejected.
Selena — “the Queen of Tejano” — rose to stardom and received a Grammy all through a Tejano tune increase within the early Nineties. Her hits come with “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” “Como l. a. 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, crowned the Billboard 200, and featured hits “I May Fall in Love” and “Dreaming of You.” Jennifer Lopez performed the singer in “Selena,” a 1997 biopic.
The Grammys awarded Selena a posthumous lifetime fulfillment award in 2021.
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