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Yolanda Saldívar, the woman convicted of killing Selena, is denied parole

March 28, 2025
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The woman sentenced to life in prison for killing Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles said Thursday,

Yolanda Saldívar was convicted of fatally shooting Selena, the Mexican-American singer known as the “Queen of Tejano” music whose full name was Selena Quintanilla Pérez, at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi on March 31, 1995.

Saldívar was eligible for parole after 30 years, with possible release no sooner than March 30.

“After a thorough consideration of all available information, which included any confidential interviews conducted, it was the parole panel’s determination to deny parole to Yolanda Saldivar and set her next parole review for March 2030,” the Board of Pardons and Paroles said in a statement.

Selena, left, watches as Yolanda Saldívar speaks to a crowd at a post-1994 Tejano Music Awards party in San Antonio, Texas.AP file

Saldívar was president of Selena’s fan club and manager of two of her clothing boutiques before she killed the 23-year-old singer.

Selena’s family fired Saldívar in early 1995, accusing her of embezzling money from the fan club and boutiques.

Selena was shot in the back, Saldívar then followed her until the singer collapsed in the lobby, and Saldívar locked herself in a truck outside and threatened to kill herself, according to appellate court documents. Before Selena lost consciousness, she told motel employees who shot her, they said.

A jury found Saldívar guilty of first-degree murder in October 1995, and she was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

Saldívar claimed that she didn’t mean to kill Selena and that she bought the .38-caliber revolver to kill herself. Her defense at trial argued that the gun went off accidentally and struck Selena.

Selena’s hits included “Dreaming Of You,” which rose to 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1995, the year she was killed. She had five No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks including “No Me Queda Mas,” and she won the Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Album in 1994 for “Live.”

Her life was memorialized in the 1997 film “Selena,” starring Jennifer Lopez.

Saldívar spoke out about the killing in a 2024 Oxygen docuseries, “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,” in which she denied that she embezzled money and claimed, without evidence, that she was covering up Selena’s extramarital affair.

The documentary outraged some fans before it even aired.

Saldíva filed a petition for parole in January.

A file was prepared that included court documents and other materials, the board said, and it was sent to a three-person parole panel. A simple majority is needed. The statement from the state board did not disclose the vote.

“The reason provided by the panel for denial was the Nature of the Offense: The record indicates that the instant offense has elements of brutality, violence, assaultive behavior or conscious selection of victim’s vulnerability indicating a conscious disregard for the lives, safety, or property of others, such that the offender poses a continuing threat to public safety,” the Board of Pardons and Paroles said.

Phil Helsel

Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.

The Associated Press contributed.



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