Mexico's leading lady in the early '90s was Selena. At the tender age of 23 she had amassed a legion of fans all over the Central and North America. But her reign came to a screeching halt after her former employee and president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, shot her to death at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas, in March 1995, according to The New York Times.
Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla, explained it all saying, Saldivar had been fired from her job at the family's clothing store over missing money three weeks before the shooting. "There have been discrepancies," Quintanilla said. "And they resulted in her shooting Selena." As the story goes, Selena asked for the money back and they arranged to meet up. After killing Selena, Saldivar commanded a 10-hour stand-off while she held a gun to her head.
In March 2017, 22 years after Selena's death, the star's family remembered her. "Early on when she passed away, people tell me that time heals your heart and I couldn't understand that," Selena's sister Suzette Quintanilla told Entertainment Tonight. "It's not so much that time heals your heart, it's more that time helps you deal with what's been put in front of you."
"We're programmed emotionally and spiritually to accept that the older folks go first, but when your child goes first, it's a different kind of pain," Selena's father said. "Death is a very painful thing for humans. It is."
