Selena Quintanilla Perez’s death has been a hot topic among her fans.
Thirty years after the beloved singer was murdered at age 23 in what was ruled a first-degree murder by former fan club president Yolanda Saldívar, Saldívar maintains the shooting was an accident.
Due to the public interest in Selena’s death, an emergency autopsy was performed just three hours after her death, and it was determined that the Queen of Tejano music’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the lower right shoulder.
According to the original 1995 report obtained by Us Weekly, coroner Lloyd White wrote of the cause of her death: “It is my opinion that the 23-year-old woman, Selena Quintanilla Perez, died as a result of internal and external hemorrhage, in other words, massive hemorrhage, due to blood loss due to the gunshot puncture in the chest.”
The report concluded that after entering Selena’s back, the bullet may have traveled through her ribs and into the upper lobes of her lungs, before “penetrating the chest wall” and exiting her body.
The medical examiner concluded in documents that the bullet’s path caused severe damage to the subclavian artery, which led to her death.
