Selena's killer is up for parole 30 years after shooting Latin superstar

The pistillate who fatally changeable vocalist Selena Quintanilla-Perez volition soon go eligible for parole connected the eve of the 30th day of the Tejano euphony superstar’s death.

Yolanda Saldívar, present 64, has spent 3 decades successful situation pursuing her condemnation for first-degree murder. Saldívar changeable the vocalist successful the backmost astatine a Days Inn edifice successful Corpus Christi, Texas, successful 1995 aft Quintanilla-Perez accused her of embezzling money.

Saldívar is presently serving a beingness condemnation astatine the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit successful Gatesville and has a petition for parole that volition beryllium considered by the parole committee connected Sunday, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice online records.

The parole process successful Texas involves a broad review, including interviews and evaluations astir her behaviour successful situation and imaginable interaction connected the assemblage if released. If parole is denied, Saldívar’s lawsuit volition beryllium reconsidered successful 1 to 5 years.

Former Nueces County Dist. Atty. Carlos Valdez, who led the prosecution against Saldívar, has expressed concerns astir her merchandise owed to the severity of the transgression and the imaginable risks she would airs to nationalist safety.

“Lord knows what volition hap if she is released,” Valdez told Houston quality presumption KHOU11. “Based connected what I’ve seen truthful far, I deliberation it would beryllium a superior mistake to assistance her parole. I believe, I truly believe, that the safest for Yolanda would astir apt beryllium wherever she is.”

Singer Selena was honored posthumously successful 2017 with a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Quintanilla-Perez inactive has a devoted instrumentality base, and galore of her supporters powerfully reason Saldívar’s petition for parole.

Saldívar’s family, connected the different hand, has advocated for her release, telling the New York Post that the vocalist came astatine her “really aggressively,” causing their confrontation to escalate anterior to the 1995 shooting.

While successful prison, Saldívar has faced galore threats for sidesplitting the beloved singer, prompting her to beryllium held successful protective custody and walk astir of her clip unsocial successful her cell.

Quintanilla-Perez was calved successful 1971 successful Lake Jackson, Texas, and became 1 of the astir influential Latin artists of each clip earlier her abrupt decease astatine conscionable 23. Known arsenic the “Queen of Tejano,” she reached newfound levels of fame by blending accepted elements of Mexican euphony with modern popular sounds.

In 1994, she became the archetypal Tejano creator to triumph a Grammy, for her medium “Selena Live!”

At the clip of her death, she was signaling her archetypal English-language medium and opening a bid of boutiques inspired by her emotion for fashion. Her bequest endures to this day, inspiring galore documentaries, creation pieces and musicians.

In 2017, she received a posthumous prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her unveiling ceremonial drew the largest assemblage connected record, according to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.