Inside the night Selena was murdered 30 years ago — and how her ‘traumatized’ band found out
nypost.comSelena, the Queen of Tejano, shared a sweet last moment at her Texas home with two of her band members — keyboardists Joe Ojeda and Ricky Vela — the night before her tragic murder 30 years ago.“I was actually in Corpus Christi with Ricky recording some ideas for her next Spanish record,” Ojeda exclusively told The Post. “And we went to her house to [figure out] a key on her vocal for one of the songs that we were recording.“And we got to her house, we had some cheesecake, and then she walked us out … just making funny faces at us.
We would be seriously talking to her, and she would make funny faces. She was so fun to be around,” he shared. “That’s the night before the tragedy happened.”That turned out to be his final memory of Selena Quintanilla.
The next day she was fatally shot by her fan club president, Yolanda Saldívar — who had just been fired days before by the Mexican American singer for embezzlement — on March 31, 1995.
Saldívar was denied parole on Friday and will not be eligible again until 2030.“I’m grateful she didn’t get parole,” said Ojeda. “I mean, she took an innocent life away from from us, and you know, justice was served.
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