30 years after Selena Quintanilla's death, her autopsy report is revealed

Thirty years aft Selena Quintanilla’s death, a precocious released autopsy study revealed caller details astir her murder.

In March 1995, the 23-year-old Tejano vocalist was gunned down wrong a motel country successful Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her instrumentality club, Yolanda Saldívar, who had been accused of embezzling wealth from Quintanilla.

The autopsy report, obtained by Us Weekly, was carried retired 3 hours aft Quintanilla’s death. Her death, which had been ruled a homicide by the coroner’s report, was caused by a slug coiled that had entered done her shoulder.

The bullet’s way continued done her ribs until it yet punctured her thorax and exited her assemblage from her precocious chest. The autopsy study shows that the gunshot coiled deed the subclavian artery — a large humor vas that brings humor to the arms, cervix and head.

Coroner Lloyd White wrote successful the study that her decease was “a effect of an exsanguinating interior and outer hemorrhage, successful different words monolithic bleeding, owed to a perforating gunshot coiled of the [chest].” It besides noted that her covering was covered successful blood.

After Saldívar changeable Quintanilla, she engaged successful a 10-hour standoff with instrumentality enforcement, sitting successful her conveyance successful the motel’s parking batch and threatening to instrumentality her ain life. She was aboriginal charged with first-degree execution and pleaded not guilty. During the trial, Saldívar claimed that the shooting was accidental, but she was yet recovered blameworthy successful October 1995.

Saldívar was sentenced to beingness successful prison, with the imaginable of parole. The 65-year-old applied for parole past December and was denied successful March. Her lawsuit volition beryllium eligible for reappraisal again successful 2030.

In the 30 years since Quintanilla’s death, she’s go a mainstay successful popular culture. From the posthumous occurrence of “Dreaming of You,” her archetypal medium to deed No. 1 connected the Billboard 200, to being played on-screen by Jennifer Lopez successful the 1997 biopic “Selena,” the singer, dubbed the Queen of Tejano music, continues to permission her people connected the rising procreation of Latino artists.

Recently, “Selena Y Los Dinos” a caller documentary, was released connected Netflix. It features never-before-seen footage filmed by her sister Suzette Quintanilla and intimately documents her emergence to fame.

“I privation to permission a nugget of emotion for the aboriginal procreation coming up, that’s embracing Selena and our music,” said Suzette Quintanilla, earlier this twelvemonth astatine the documentary’s Sundance premiere. “We are 30 years without Selena, but her bequest is stronger than ever.”