New Autopsy Details Revealed 30 Years After Selena Quintanilla‘s Murder
Corpus Christi,TX – Newly resurfaced details from the autopsy report of Selena Quintanilla,the Tejano music icon tragically killed in 1995,reveal the devastating path of the gunshot wound that led to her death. The report, obtained by Us Weekly, outlines how a bullet fired by Yolanda Saldívar, president of Quintanilla’s fan club, entered through the singer’s shoulder and ultimately caused massive internal and external bleeding.
The autopsy, conducted three hours after Quintanilla’s death, confirmed the coroner’s ruling of homicide. The bullet traveled through her ribs, puncturing her chest and exiting from her upper chest. Crucially, the gunshot struck the subclavian artery, a major blood vessel supplying blood to the arms, neck, and head.
coroner Lloyd White documented the cause of death as “a result of an exsanguinating internal and external hemorrhage, simply put massive bleeding, due to a perforating gunshot wound of the [chest].” The report also noted Quintanilla’s clothing was saturated with blood.
Saldívar, who had been accused of embezzling money from Quintanilla, engaged in a ten-hour standoff with law enforcement following the shooting, threatening self-harm. She was charged with first-degree murder and, despite pleading not guilty and claiming the shooting was accidental, was found guilty in October 1995 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Saldívar, now 65, was denied parole in March after applying last December, and her case is next eligible for review in 2030.
Quintanilla’s legacy continues to thrive three decades after her death. Her posthumous album, “Dreaming of You,” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and she was portrayed by Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 biopic ”Selena.” A new documentary, “selena And The Dinos,” featuring previously unseen footage from her sister Suzette Quintanilla, recently premiered on Netflix.
“I want to leave a nugget of love for the future generation coming up, that’s embracing Selena and our music,” Suzette Quintanilla said at the documentary’s Sundance premiere earlier this year. “We are 30 years without Selena, but her legacy is stronger than ever.”
