Selena Quintanilla’s killer has been released on parole nearly 30 years after fatally shooting the Latin star.

Selena Quintanilla-Perezkiller Yolanda Saldivar has applied for parole nearly 30 years after fatally shooting the Latin pop star on March 31, 1995, in Corpus Christi, Texas.

According to a representative of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Saldivar, 64, is currently in the process of parole. Its eligibility date is March 30, 2025.

Saldivar, a close friend of the late star and president of his fan club, He allegedly killed Quintanilla-Pérez after a friend discovered she had embezzled $30,000 from clothing boutiques. Saldivar still denies stealing from Quintanilla-Pérez.

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Nearly 30 years after fatally shooting a Latin pop star, Yolanda Saldivar has applied for parole. (AP/Oxygen)

according to The New York PostInmates at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where Saldivar is being held, said he was kept in protective custody because he was a heavy target among inmates.

“Everyone knows who Yolanda Saldivar is,” Marisol Lopez, who served with her from 2017 to 2022, said in a speech. “There’s a bounty on his head, everyone wants a piece of him. The guards keep him away from everyone because he’s so hated. If he (the general population) was outside, someone would try to take him down.”

In February 2024, Saldivar sat down for a new prison interview featured in the Oxygen documentary Selena and Yolanda: Secrets Between Them.

“I think it’s time to get the story straight,” Saldivar said documentaries say. “And I think people deserve to know the truth.”

Yolanda Saldivar killed Quintanilla-Perez on March 31, 1995. (Oxygen)

Saldivar claims he did not intend to kill Quintanilla-Pérez, but instead insisted he wanted to take his own life. However, in a series of unfortunate incidents, the gun allegedly went off and hit the 23-year-old instead.

“It baffled me,” Saldivar said. “I didn’t know my gun went off. I didn’t know it hit him. It scared him, it scared me. He never intended to harm him.”

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“My decisions were my decisions and the results were mine,” he said. “I regret all of this. If I could go back in time, if I could turn back the clock, I think a lot of things wouldn’t be the same. And I want people to know that I miss Selena as much as they do, but I know I’ll see her in heaven.

“I’m very sorry to see him go,” Saldivar said. “I’m so sorry that his family was hurt. I’m so sorry that my family was hurt. I never meant to hurt anyone.”

Quintanilla earned the nickname “Mexican-American Madonna” during her career. (Getty Images)

The documentary faced backlash from fans as well as the pop star’s family and friends.

Selena’s father, Abraham Quintanilla, told TMZ that the documentary contained “nothing but lies.”

“Nobody’s going to believe what he’s saying anyway,” the Quintanilla patriarch said in the speech when it aired. “Everybody knows that there is no truth in anything that comes out of his mouth.”

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Saldivar said he was “convicted by public opinion” before his trial began.

“They were informed, which was incorrect, that I was an appropriating, obsessive fan,” Saldivar said in the documentary. “As a citizen of the United States, my right to be innocent until proven guilty has been taken away from me.”

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“I was guilty. I had to prove that I was innocent. I know people hurt. And I know they love him. No doubt. And I know they’re still hurting. I do too. I think Abraham took advantage of that. That feeling, that sympathy. … to poison their minds.”

Stephanie Nolasco of Fox News Digital contributed to this post.