The woman convicted of killing Grammy Awardwinning Selena Quintanilla has filed for parole nearly three decades after the murder.
Yolanda Saldívar, who was the 23-year-old’s business associate and president of her fan club, killed Quintanilla on March 31, 1995, in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Saldívar was convicted in October of that year and sentenced to life, with the possibility of parole in 30 years.
According to online records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Saldívar has applied for parole, for which she will become eligible on March 30.
The parole review process in Texas is initiated six months before the parole eligibility date. Saldívar’s next parole review date is on March 30, one day shy of the 30th anniversary of Selena’s murder.
Saldívar has reportedly claimed there is a bounty on her head in jail, according to ABC 13.
Selena Quintanilla. Arlene Richie/Getty
During Saldívar’s trial in 1995, Quintanilla’s widower Chris Pérez said the pop star had fired Saldivar earlier that year after learning that the woman had allegedly embezzled money from her.
Following the confrontation, Saldívar applied for a license to purchase a revolver in San Antonio. Then, on March 31, when Quintanilla met Saldívar in a hotel room retrieve several documents from her, Saldívar shot Quintanilla in the back.
Saldívar had pleaded not guilty to murder during her arraignment, with her lawyer claiming the shooting was not intentional and Saldívar was actually trying to shoot herself.
At the time of her killing, Quintanilla was soaring in popularity, building on a career that started in her childhood when she performed with her brother A.B. Quintanilla and sister Suzette Quintanilla in their band Selena y Los Dinos.
Months prior to her murder, Quintanilla had a historic performance at the Houston Astrodome Livestock Show & Rodeo with a record-breaking audience of almost 67,000.
