Selena's family is “grateful” that the young singer's murderer, Yolanda Saldívar, has denied probation on Thursday in Texas.
Saldívar, 64, is fulfilling life imprisonment for the murder of March 31, 1995 that took place at a Corpus Christi hotel after the singer, whose last name was Quintanilla-Pérez, accused friend left the embezzlement of $ 30,000. The older woman had been president of the Selena Fan Club and manager of the singer Selena, etc. Boutiques
The Quintanilla and Chris Pérez family, the guitarist who secretly married Selena in 1992, seemed satisfied with the decision to deny probation, writing on social networks, “today, we are grateful.” They said they were celebrating Selena's life, instead of remembering her murder.
The probation Board said in documents obtained on Thursday by the times that the murder had “elements of brutality, violence, aggressive behavior or conscious selection of the vulnerability of the victim that indicates a conscious contempt for the lives, security or property of others, so that the criminal raises a continuous threat to public safety.”
“While nothing can bring Selena back,” the family continued, “this decision reaffirms that justice continues to represent the beautiful life that was taken and millions of fans around the world too soon.”
The case of Saldívar is eligible for another probation review, in Texas, a comprehensive evaluation that involves interviews and behavioral reviews, in 2030.
“Selena's legacy is one of love, music and inspiration. He lived with joy, gave selfless and continues to raise generations with his voice and spirit,” Quintanillas and Pérez wrote. “As your family and loved ones, we remain committed to preserving their memory and ensuring that their history is honored with the dignity and respect it deserves.”
The support of fans, they said, had been a source of strength and healing over the years.
The Tejana pop superstar was about to record his first crossover album in English when Saldívar shot him in a corpus Christi Days Inn. “Dreaming of You” threw himself posthumously in July 1995.
Jennifer López starred “Selena”, the 1997 film about the singer, and in 2020, Netflix debuted “Selena: The Series”, a series of two seasons and 18 episodes that look at their rise to fame with the family band, the Dinos and their murder.
In 2024, the oxygen network launched “Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets among them”, a two -part documentary that incorporates the version of the Saldívar events. The latter was done without the good of the family.
More recently, the documentary “Selena and Los Dinos”, with homemade films, taken by older sister Suzette Quintanilla, impressed the public at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
Selena's fans were not happy with “Selena and Yolanda.” “It is very clear to me that [the filmmakers are] Giving a lot of weight to Yolanda's accusations, “the presenter of the podcast” anything for Selena “, Maria Elena García, told the Times in 2024. Reference to promotions for the documentary.” The empty accusations that have been making literally decades. For me, that is incredibly irresponsible, not very ethical and, frankly, simply unpleasant. “
Earlier this month, a member of the Saldívar family told the New York Post that Saldívar knows that what he did was wrong, but argues that Selena arrived at her “really aggressively.”
“She was so thrown with how overwhelming she was being Selena; everything happened very fast,” said the family member. “If Selena had faced her differently, this would never have happened.”
The Saldívar defense team alleged at the trial in October 1995 that shot Selena by accident and that Corpus Christi police, who questioned her never mentioned that statement.
During a nine -hour confrontation at the hotel where he was shot by Selena, Saldívar told Police negotiators that he told the singer that he had bought a .38 caliber revolver to commit suicide, said Associated Press in 1995.
“She told me: 'Yolanda, I don't want you to kill yourself.' She opened the door. The engraved conversation was played at the trial.
Saldívar did not testify at the trial after a judge denied a request that he testified only about his interactions with the police. However, several hotel employees declared that they saw a quiet Saldívar with the weapon chasing a selena that screams and bleeding, the AP said.
The Times staff writer, Clara Harter, contributed to this report.
