The Savage Murder of Singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez

How a crazy fan club president shot and killed the singer in cold blood after being confronted about embezzling money.

Carter Covington
3 min readAug 5, 2021
Pictured right: Yolanda Saldivar Pictured left: Selena Quintanilla-Perez / Photo Credits to the US Sun

Selena Quintanilla-Perez, or better known as just Selena, was a Hispanic-American singer in the late 20th century. During her very brief career, she was a singer, songwriter, model, actress, and fashion designer. For her contributions to the music industry, she is often referred to as The Queen of Tejano music.

Selena originally debuted her career as the lead member of her family’s band Selena y Los Dinos. In her teens, she played all over Texas and even won numerous awards for her musical abilities. In the early 90s, Selena released numerous singles and even won a Grammy award for her work.

In the 90s, Selena launched her cosmetics line with MAC Cosmetics. This cosmetics line became the best-selling celebrity cosmetics line in all of history. Selena seemed to have it all at such a young age. That was, until, a jealous fan took that all away.

The Crazy Fan

When Selena superfan, Yolanda Saldivar repeatedly asked to start a Selena fan club, Selena’s father and manager could not help but give in. He appointed Saldivar as the head of the fan club in 1991…

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