Yolanda Saldivar, convicted of killing Selena, will remain in prison

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Yolanda Saldivar is refused on Thursday the conditions of freedom conditioned by the Floor and Passwords in Texas.

Saldivar was arrested and, finally, convicted for the 1995 killing of the singer Tejano Selena Quintanilla-Perz in Corpus Christi. Saldivar shot him at a hotel.

Monday, March 31, will mark 30 years since Selena’s death.

In his decision, the Conditional Freedom Council stated that the refusal of freedom is due to the nature of the crime. He said the offender is a continuous threat to public safety.

The next eligibility of Saldivar’s freedom of freedom is in 2030.

Selena’s family issued a statement about Instagram:

board Full statement reading:

“In 1995, Yolanda Saldivar was convicted of murder with a deadly and sentenced to life in the Texas Criminal Justice Department. She was forced to meet 30 years before being eligible to take into account the right of freedom.

“As with any other initial review of an offender for conditions of conditional freedom, about six months before the eligibility of conditional freedom conditions, he entered the process of reviewing the password. An institutional password officer and prepared the file to be subject to the conditional freedom to play a discretionary decision.

“AFTER A Thorough Consideration of All Available Information, which included any confidential interviews conducted, it was the password to deny deny passwords to yolanda and set her next password review for March 2030. The Reason Provideed by the Panel Was the Nature of the Offense: The Recler: Indicates that the Instant Offense Has elements of brutality, Violence, Assaulting Behavior or Conscious Selection of Victim’s Vulnerability of Conscious Disregard for Lives, Safety or Property of others, so the offender is a continuous threat to public safety “.