Selena's family is “grateful” that the young singer's killer, Yolanda Saldívar, was refused parole on Thursday in Texas.
Saldívar, 64, purges a perpetuity imprisonment for the murder of March 31, 1995 which took place in a hotel in Corpus Christi after the singer, whose family name was Quintanilla-Pérez, friend accused Saldívar of diverting $ 30,000. The older woman had been president of the Selena Fan Club and director of Selena shops etc. of the singer.
The Quintanilla family and Chris Pérez, the guitarist who secretly married Selena in 1992, seemed satisfied with the decision to deny parole, writing on social networks“Today we are grateful.” They said they celebrated Selena's life, rather than remembering her murder.
The Conditional Liberations Commission declared in documents obtained Thursday by time Whether the murder had “elements of brutality, violence, aggressive behavior or conscious selection of the victim's vulnerability indicating a conscious contempt for the life, security or property of others, so that the offender constitutes a continuous threat to public security.”
“Although nothing can bring back Selena,” continued the family, “this decision reaffirms that justice continues to defend the good life that has been taken to us and millions of fans around the world too early.”
The case of Saldívar is eligible for another parole review – in Texas, a complete evaluation involving interviews and behavioral examinations – in 2030.
“The heritage of Selena is that of love, music and inspiration. She lived with joy, gave in an altruistic way and continues to raise generations with her voice and her mind,” wrote the Quintanillas and Pérez. “As family and loved ones, we remain determined to preserve their memory and ensure that its history is honored with the dignity and respect it deserves.”
Fans' support, they said, had been a source of strength and healing over the years.
The Tejana Pop superstar was about to record her first crossover album in English when she was shot in the back by Saldívar in a corpus Christi Days Inn. “”Dream of youWas posthumously released in July 1995.
Jennifer Lopez played in “Selena”, the 1997 film on the singer, and in 2020, Netflix made her debut “Selena: The Series”, a series of two seasons of 18 episodes watching her ascent with the family group, Los Dinos, and her murder.
In 2024, the Oxygen network published “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between They”, a two -part documentary incorporating the version of the events of Saldívar. The latter was done without the family being ok.
More recently, the documentary “Selena and Los Dinos“Featuring films at the house shot by the older sister Suzette Quintanilla, an impressed audience at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Selena fans were not satisfied with “Selena & Yolanda”. “It is very clear for me that (the filmmakers are) granted a lot of weight to the allegations of Yolanda”, Maria Garcia, animator of Podcast “Anything for Selena”, Maria Elena Garcia said to Times in 2024. Reference to documentary promotions. “Empty allegations that she has done for decades. For me, it is incredibly irresponsible, contrary to ethics and, frankly, just unpleasant.”
Earlier this month, a member of the Saldívar family told the New York Post that Saldívar knows that what she did was bad, but argues that Selena came to her “very aggressive”.
“She was so thrown away with Selena's strength; everything happened so quickly,” said the family member. “If Selena had confronted it differently, it would never have happened.”
Saldívar's defense team allegedly allegedly allegedly the trial that she had shot Selena by accident and that the police of Corpus Christi who questioned her never mentioned this assertion.
During a nine -time dead end at the hotel where Selena was killed, Saldívar told the police negotiators that she had said to the singer that she had bought a caliber revolver .38 to have killed herself, the Associated Press reported in 1995.
“She said to me,” Yolanda, I don't want you to kill yourself. “She opened the door. The registered conversation was played at the trial.
Saldívar did not testify to the trial after A judge refused a request that she only testifies to her interactions with the police. However, several Hotel employees have testified That they saw a calm saldívar with the weapon pursuing a screaming and rare selena, said the AP.
The staff writer Clara Harter contributed to this report.
