Overview
- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Saldívar’s December 2024 parole bid in March 2025 and set her next review for March 2030, and she remains incarcerated in Gatesville, Texas.
- The 1995 coroner’s report concluded Selena died from exsanguinating internal and external bleeding due to a perforating gunshot wound to the chest that severely damaged the subclavian artery.
- Investigators documented that the bullet entered from behind near the lower right shoulder, traveled through the thorax, and exited the upper right chest, consistent with the homicide ruling.
- Selena was shot during a meeting at a Corpus Christi Days Inn after seeking financial records, ran to the lobby for help, and was pronounced dead at 1:05 p.m. on March 31, 1995.
- Once Selena’s fan-club president and boutique manager, Saldívar had been removed over alleged embezzlement, purchased and repurchased a .38-caliber revolver days before the shooting, engaged in a 10-hour standoff, and was convicted of first-degree murder in October 1995.