CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Thirty years ago Monday, a tense standoff played out in the parking lot of the Corpus Christi Days Inn. Yolanda Saldívar inside her car sat with a gun threatening to ...

Corpus Christi, TX ... 1995 in a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. The 23-year-old singer was a rising star in the Tejano music world and was poised to become a crossover pop star.

Yolanda Saldivar was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder for shooting Selena on March 31, 1995 in a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.