'CNN 20': Selena Killed, March 31, 1995
UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It happened at a Corpus Christi Days Inn. Wildly popular, Grammy-award winning Chicana singer Selena, a performer often described as the Hispanic equivalent of Madonna, was shot and killed. The suspect was an employee at a boutique owned by Selena and was about to be fired.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The district attorney's office filed a formal complaint, accusing Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena Quintanilla-Perez.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: The funeral was in Corpus Christi, Texas, the same place this 23-year-old singer, known simply as Selena, had been shot to death a few days earlier. Until then, much of the non-Spanish speaking world had never heard of her. And yet this native of south Texas was just beginning to cross cultural borders with her song.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was headed to become a super superstar, I mean a gigantic star.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She had so much going for her with all her life, her future.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: That future came to an end at the hand of one of Selena's own...</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Convicted killer Yolanda Saldivar wept when she heard the punishment.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We, the jury, having found the defendant guilty of murder, assess her punishment a confinement in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life.</s>UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: Almost simultaneously, fans celebrated in the street around the courthouse.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She deserves it, she deserves it. She killed Selena, and everybody loves Selena.