Tejano music star
is shot to death
• After 9h-hour standoff, 34-year•
old suspect surrenders to polie.
• A rosary will be recited at 7:30
p.m. today.
By JEN DESELVS, KAREN BROOKS
and ROSEMARY BARNES
Caller-Times
Superstar Selena. who took Tejano
music from backyard weddings to
60,000-seat stadium concerts, was
shot to death Friday, allegedly by a
disgruntled ex-emp10Fe.
Police arrested 34-year-old
Yolanda Saldivar of San Antonio af-
ter a 9'h-hour standoff. She surren-
dered after threatening to commit
suicide as she sat in a pickup truck.
Selena: The 23-year-old TeJano muen
"l guess she just got tired," Police
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Chief Henry Garrett said as Saldivar
two weeks.
was taken to the police station for
questioning, he said.
a red 1994 GMC pickup irucküi-thö-
The 23-year-old sibg& was Shot in
'hotel parking lot, holdins as
'the back before noon at the Days
bay for hours before surrendering-
Inn Hotel, 901 Navigation Blvd.
At times, she pointed a gun to her,
She was taken to Memorial Medical
head, police said.
Center, where she was pronounced
Hostage negotiators talked to her
dead at 1:05 p.m.
on a cellular telephone they had
Nueces County Medical Examiner
given her. In addition to talking-
Dr. Lloyd White said Selena died of
with police, Saldivar spoke with rel-
severe blood loss after a bullet
atives over the telephone, police:
struck the back of her right shoulder
said.
and hit an artery. "She was virtually
At 7 p.m. police turned floodlights
dead on arrival at the hospital,"
on the vehicle. They also drained
White said.
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After the shooting, Saldivar sat in
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