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Selena Quintanilla Autopsy Revealed 30 Years After Her Murder

Details of Selena Quintanilla’s 1995 autopsy report have been released.

Selena Quintanilla‑Pérez’s autopsy report has been revealed, 30 years after she was murdered by a crazed fan. The Mexican artist was killed at the age of 23 in a Texas motel by Yolanda Saldívar in March 1995. Saldívar, former president of her fan club and manager of her clothing boutiques, was found to have embezzled $60,000 from the singer’s businesses. Fans and employees alerted the artist’s family that money given to the fan club and boutique kept going missing. After an investigation, Saldívar was fired. The artist agreed to meet Saldívar at the Texas motel to collect financial records. After an argument that occurred between the two, Saldívar shot the artist in the back as she was leaving. The crazed fan is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. The newly released 1995 autopsy, which features in Netflix’s newly released documentary, Selena y Los Dinos, reports the artist suffered “massive bleeding” from a gunshot that entered through the singer’s back and went through her ribs and her lungs. This injured her subclavian artery, ultimately causing her death. “The Queen of Tejano music” rose to stardom through her groundbreaking music and iconic fashion.