Woman who killed musician Selena asks for parole amid claims she has ‘bounty’ on her head | EUROtoday

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Yolanda Saldívar, who’s serving a life sentence for the 1995 homicide of pop star Selena, is in search of parole after three a long time in jail, as fellow inmates declare the lady has a “bounty” on her head for slaying the “Queen of Tejano Music.”

Saldívar was hit with a life sentence on expenses of first-degree homicide in October 1995 for fatally capturing Selena Quintanilla-Pérez with a revolver in a Corpus Christi, Texas, motel earlier that 12 months.

This marks the primary time Saldívar is up for parole. A listening to about her standing is ready for March 30, in keeping with data from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Saldívar, a nurse and the founder and president of the Selena fan membership, of capturing Quintanilla-Pérez after the musician accused her of embezzling tens of hundreds of {dollars}. Saldívar maintains the capturing was an accident, and pleaded not responsible throughout her high-profile trial, which was moved to Houston given the general public consideration.

When police arrested Saldívar, they discovered her in a parking zone threatening suicide, and stated she had the gun to kill herself, not Selena.

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“I was convicted by public opinion even before my trial started,” Saldívar advised a Peacock documentary final 12 months.

Fellow inmates who served with Saldívar stated that her crimes have put a goal on her again inside jail.

“Everyone knows who Yolanda Saldívar is,” Marisol Lopez, who served time with the lady from 2017 to 2022, advised The New York Post final month. “There’s a bounty on her head, like everyone wants a piece of her. The guards keep her away from everyone else, because she’s hated so much. If she were out [in general population]someone would try to take her down.”

“Everyone was always like, ‘Let me have five minutes with that b****,’” one other former inmate advised the paper. “Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena. There’s a target on her back.”

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Members of Selena’s household have additionally described Saldívar dealing with threats in jail.

The killing occurred simply as Quintanilla-Pérez was gaining recognition within the English-speaking mainstream marketplace for her Tejano music, mixing American pop and Mexican folks types.

The relationship between Saldívar and Selena has been the topic of latest documentaries, together with this 12 months’s Oxygen True Crime collection Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them.

In the documentary, Saldívar claimed Selena persuaded her towards killing herself, just for the gun to go off anyway whereas she was “hysterical.”

“Selena, when she came into the [hotel] room, she kept trying to put guilt in me for not continuing with her, and how everything was going to crumble,” Saldívar stated within the collection. “My emotions were running so high, and I was hurting.”