EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The medical autopsy for Selena Quintanilla was revealed 30 years after her death, according to the magazine US Weekly.
Selena, who was also known as the “Queen of Tejano Music,” was shot and killed by her Yolanda Saldivar, in Corpus Christi in 1995.
Saldivar was accused of embezzling money from the singer.
According to US Weekly, which obtained the medical report from the Nueces County, Texas, medical examiner’s office, it confirmed that Selena died from a bullet wound to her lower right shoulder. Selena’s death was ruled a homicide.
The magazine stated the coroner confirmed that her cause of death was “exsanguinating internal and external [bleeding] due to [a] perforating gunshot wound” in the chest.
The medical examiner stated that Quintanilla her death came ” as a result of an exsanguinating internal and external hemorrhage, in other words massive bleeding, due to a perforating gunshot wound of the thorax (chest),” according to US Weekly.
According to the report, the bullet entered her back and the bullet was traced from her ribs to the “upper pulmonary lobe,” before puncturing “the chest wall.”
An exit wound was detected on the “upper right anterior chest.”
Saldivar remains in prison after being sentenced to life.
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