b'Community Featurediscoveredi.e., she was stealing the money.Having fielded mounting complaints from former Sele-na Etc. employees and fan club members, Selenas father, A.B. Quintanilla, Jr., arranged a March 9th meeting with Saldivar to confront her with the accusationsSelena and her sis-ter, Suzette, were present. With copies of forged checks and other evidence in hand, A.B. informed Saldivar that she was fired, she was not to have contact with Selena or the family, and that he intended to go to CCPD if she did not provide proof of her innocence.Saldivar would later describe herself as obsessed with Selena,andalthoughshehadbeenunceremoniouslydis-missed from the close role she played in her idols life, she managed to maintain contact with Selena. In her effort to earn a sympathetic ear from the star, Saldivar scheduled a doctor appointment in Corpus Christi on the morning of the 31st, to be examined for an alleged sexual and physical as-sault that she said had recently taken place in Monterrey, Mexicoher meeting with Selena at the Days Inn was set to M arch 31, 1995, was one of the most tragic days in Corpus Christi history, as news spreadtake place afterward. the bullet severing an artery. A In the motel room, around 11:45 a.m., Selena was shot in the back as she fled from a gun-wielding Saldivar, struck below her right shoulder, fast that our beloved Selena Quintanilla-Perez had been shot at the Days Inn on IH-37 at392-foot trail of blood followed Selena to the motel office, Navigation, and that her assailant, Yolanda Saldivar, was holed up in her pickup truck,where she collapsed. Selena was lifeless as she arrived at surrounded by police and threatening suicide. Saldivar, who lived in San Antonio, hadMemorial Hospital, but doctors employed extraordinary ef-worked her way into the role of president of the Selena fan club and had become person- forts to revive her, stimulating a brief, erratic heartbeatbut ally close to the young Tejano star and her family. In early 1994, Saldivar was hired tothe blood loss was too extreme, and she died in surgery at run Selena Etc. boutiques and to market the singers clothing line in the U.S. and Mexico, but by the end of1:05 p.m. A nine-hour stand-off ensued, live on local and na-the year, complaints arose related to her treatment of employees, and financial irregularities were quicklytional television, as an armed Saldivar refused to give herself 74 THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEQ2.2020 TheCoastalBend.com'