The woman who killed music legend Selena was denied parole in Texas Thursday after serving 30 years of her life sentence, authorities announced.
Yolanda Saldivar will continue to serve out her life sentence for the notorious 1995 shooting death of acclaimed singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez in a Texas motel, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles said.
The three-member panel voted to deny parole to Saldivar, 64, claiming the convicted killer of the beloved Spanish singing sensation continues to pose a threat to public safety.
Saldívar has been serving her life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas. AP
Saldivar was the president of the Selena fan club and manager of clothing shops associated with the singer — jobs she was fired from on suspicion of embezzlement in the month before the Mar. 31 murder of the 23-year-old “Queen of Tejano.”
The “Dreams of You” crooner was shot in the back with a .38-caliber revolver at a motel in Corpus Christi, where Saldivar plotted to bring Selena under the false pretense of handing over financial documents.
In court, Saldivar testified that she meant to commit suicide, but the gun had misfired and hit the beloved singer instead.
Known by many as Selena, she was killed at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995. APRelatives of the convicted murderer recently said that Selena is as much to blame for the murder as the now 64-year-old.
“[Yolanda] knows what she did was wrong and she takes responsibility for it,” a family member recently told The Post.
“She says that [Selena] came at her really aggressively. She was so thrown off with how forceful Selena was being,” the family member claimed.
“Everything happened so fast. If Selena had confronted her differently, this never would have happened.”
Saldivar was found guilty of murder in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years — which was denied Thursday. Her next chance of parole will be in 2030.
The convicted killer is reportedly kept separate from the general prison population out of fear of angry Selena fans also locked up who may take justice into their own hands.
“Everyone was always like, ‘Let me have five minutes with that b—h,” former inmate Yesenia Dominguez told The Post. “Everyone wanted to get justice for Selena.”
Selena, who rose to stardom in the 1990s with wildly popular songs in both English and Spanish, was one of the first Mexican-Americans to become a cross-cultural celebrity in the United States.
With Post wires.
