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Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s death lingers with her fans.
It’s been 30 years since the beloved singer was killed at age 23 by the former president of her fan club Yolanda Saldívar in what was ruled first-degree murder, though Saldívar has insisted the shooting was an accident.
Due to the level of public interest in Selena’s passing, a rush autopsy was done just three hours after her death, which confirmed the Queen of Tejano music died from a bullet wound to her lower right shoulder.
Coroner Lloyd White wrote of her cause of death, according the original 1995 report obtained by Us Weekly, “It is my opinion that Selena Quintanilla Pérez, a 23-year-old woman, came to her death as a result of an exsanguinating internal and external hemorrhage, in other words massive bleeding, due to a perforating gunshot wound of the thorax.”
The report concluded, per the outlet, that after entering Selena’s back, the bullet’s path could be traced from her ribs to the upper lobe of her lungs before “puncturing the chest wall” and exiting her body.
The path of the bullet, the coroner concluded in the doc, severely injured her subclavian artery, contributing to her death.
