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On the morning of March 31, 1995, American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was shot and fatally wounded at the Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas. Although paramedics tried to revive Selena, she died of hypovolemic shock at Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital at age 23. The killer, Yolanda Saldívar, was the president of Selena's fan club who was ...
Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, in Lake Jackson, Texas. [11] She was the youngest child of Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora), who self-identified as being of Cherokee ancestry, [12] and Abraham Quintanilla Jr., a Mexican American former musician. [13]
Yolanda Saldívar. Yolanda Saldívar ( Spanish pronunciation: [ɟʝoˈlanda salˈdiβaɾ]; born September 19, 1960) [1] [2] is an American former nurse who was convicted of murdering Tejano musician Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in 1995. [3] Born in San Antonio, Saldívar had been the president of Selena's fan club and the manager of her boutiques ...
Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress. Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, she made her on-screen debut with the television film Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979), and thereafter played the recurring roles of Erica on the drama series Family (1980), and Paulina Bornstein on the comedy series Breaking Away (1980–1981).
Lupe Ontiveros. Guadalupe Ontiveros ( née Moreno; September 17, 1942 – July 26, 2012) was an American actress best known for portraying Rosalita in The Goonies, and Yolanda Saldívar in the film Selena. She acted in numerous films and television shows. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Desperate Housewives and received ...
Ritchie Valens. Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), [3] better known by his stage name Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens died in a plane crash just eight months after his breakthrough. [4]
On August 25, 2001, a Cessna 402 twin-engine light aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, killing the pilot and all eight passengers on board. Among the victims were American singer and actress Aaliyah and members of her entourage, including a hairdresser, her bodyguard and a ...
Christina Victoria Grimmie (March 12, 1994 – June 10, 2016) was an American singer and YouTuber. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs onto YouTube. After releasing her debut EP, Find Me (2011), her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers. After she reached two million subscribers, she released her debut studio album ...