gaining renewed attention this week<\/a> as Netflix released a documentary on Monday titled \u201cSelena y Los Dinos: A Family\u2019s Legacy\u201d to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her murder.<\/p>\nThe documentary features never-before-seen footage and interviews with the Grammy-winner\u2019s family three decades after she was gunned down.<\/p>\n
Sald\u00edvar, a former nurse and business associate who had embezzled money while running the singer\u2019s fan club, fired a .38-caliber revolver at Quintanilla during a confrontation over missing financial records.<\/p>\n
The bullet entered the \u201cDreaming of You\u201d singer\u2019s back, traveled through her ribs and upper lung, then exited through the upper right chest, according to the autopsy report cited by Us Weekly.<\/p>\n
Yolanda Sald\u00edvar, a former nurse and business associate who had embezzled money while running the singer\u2019s fan club, fired a .38-caliber revolver at Quintanilla during a confrontation over missing financial records. AP<\/p>\n
The coroner wrote that the bullet severed Quintanilla\u2019s subclavian artery, causing massive internal bleeding.<\/p>\n
The medical report noted that blood was \u201cpresent over many areas of the clothes\u201d Quintanilla wore that day.<\/p>\n
Sald\u00edvar had started as a fan before convincing Quintanilla\u2019s father to let her run the singer\u2019s fan club in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
She later took on management duties at the family\u2019s boutique in Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n
That relationship soured in early 1995 when the Quintanilla family discovered thousands of dollars missing from both the fan club and the store. Sald\u00edvar was fired from the boutique and removed from her fan club position that March.<\/p>\n
The Nueces County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office officially ruled the 23-year-old singer\u2019s death a homicide. REUTERS<\/p>\n
In the weeks before the killing, Sald\u00edvar bought a Taurus Model 85 revolver from a San Antonio gun range, returned it, then purchased it again shortly before the murder.<\/p>\n
On March 30, she checked into the Days Inn and called Quintanilla, claiming she had been raped and needed to hand over business documents.<\/p>\n
Quintanilla first met Sald\u00edvar at the motel with her husband, Chris P\u00e9rez, but Sald\u00edvar didn\u2019t hand over the records she had promised.<\/p>\n
The following day, Quintanilla went back on her own after telling a business associate she intended to pick up perfume samples and the missing financial paperwork.<\/p>\n
She even drove Sald\u00edvar to a hospital after Sald\u00edvar claimed she\u2019d been raped, though staff told them the exam would need to be done elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The singer\u2019s death is gaining renewed attention this week as Netflix released a documentary on Monday titled \u201cSelena y Los Dinos: A Family\u2019s Legacy\u201d to coincide with the 30th anniversary of her murder. Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n
When they returned to the motel, Quintanilla asked again for the documents. Instead, Sald\u00edvar pulled out a revolver and fired.<\/p>\n
Wounded, Quintanilla managed to run to the lobby for help as Sald\u00edvar chased her.<\/p>\n
Paramedics took her to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at about 1:05 p.m.<\/p>\n
Sald\u00edvar then barricaded herself in her truck in the motel parking lot, threatening to harm herself. After nearly 10 hours, she finally surrendered to FBI negotiators.<\/p>\n
She was later charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty, claiming the shooting was accidental. A jury convicted her in October 1995 and she was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
Now 64, Sald\u00edvar is serving her sentence in a women\u2019s prison in Gatesville, Texas. She sought parole in December 2024, but the request was denied three months later<\/a>. She remains incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly released autopsy report confirms that Selena Quintanilla died from a single gunshot that caused massive internal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[337,157,9,11,10,24842,24843,3980,223,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-43239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-autopsies","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-selena","14":"tag-selena-quintanilla","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-singers","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}