Yolanda Saldívar will continue to serve a life sentence for fatally shooting the Mexican American music legend
The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced on Thursday.
Yolanda Saldívar will continue serving a life sentence at a prison in Gatesville, Texas, after a three-member panel of the Texas board of pardons and paroles voted not to release her. In a statement explaining the denial, the board said the panel found that Saldívar continues to pose a threat to public safety and that the nature of the crime indicated “a conscious disregard for the lives, safety or property of others”.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/selena-murder-sentence-parole-denied
Author : Associated Press
Publish date : 2025-03-28 00:11:00
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