{"id":60564,"date":"2025-11-19T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60564\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:30:09","slug":"selena-quintanillas-autopsy-reveals-details-of-her-tragic-death-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60564\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Quintanilla’s autopsy reveals details of her tragic death 30 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The medical autopsy for Selena Quintanilla was revealed 30 years after her death, according to the magazine US Weekly. <\/a><\/p>\n

Selena, who was also known as the “Queen of Tejano Music,” was shot and killed by her Yolanda Saldivar, in Corpus Christi in 1995.<\/p>\n

Saldivar was accused of embezzling money from the singer. <\/p>\n

According to US Weekly, which obtained the medical report from the Nueces County, Texas, medical examiner\u2019s office, it confirmed that Selena died from a bullet wound to her lower right shoulder. Selena\u2019s death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n

The magazine stated the coroner confirmed that her cause of death was \u201cexsanguinating internal and external [bleeding] due to [a] perforating gunshot wound\u201d in the chest.<\/p>\n

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),\u201d according to US Weekly.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the bullet entered her back and the bullet was traced from her ribs to the \u201cupper pulmonary lobe,\u201d before puncturing \u201cthe chest wall.”<\/p>\n

An exit wound was detected on the \u201cupper right anterior chest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saldivar remains in prison after being sentenced to life.<\/p>\n

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