Selena's killer has a 'bounty on her head' in prison as she seeks parole: report

The woman convicted of murdering legendary Tejano singing icon Selena is seeking parole as inmates say there is a "bounty on her head" within Texas prison, reported WJLA and The New York Post.

Yolanda Saldívar, 64, has been serving a life sentence for three decades over the shooting of the 23-year-old Latina icon. Saldívar has a hearing planned in March to determine whether she will be freed.

"But while her legal team pushes for her release, sources within the Texas prison system revealed to the New York Post a far darker reality — Saldívar’s life behind bars is far from peaceful. According to fellow inmates, there’s a 'bounty on her head,' and she’s a constant target of hostility."

Saldívar, a former nurse, headed up Selena's fan club at the time of the killing. The star planned to dismiss her from that role over allegations she embezzled $60,000. It came to an argument at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi in March 1995, after which Selena staggered into the lobby, fatally wounded from a gunshot with Saldívar in pursuit; she implicated Saldívar to bystanders before losing consciousness.

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Saldívar, who bought the gun weeks earlier in San Antonio, argued at her trial that the killing was accidental and she put the gun to her own head in a moment of emotion, then waved it around and accidentally shot Selena.

The jury did not believe this defense, convicting Saldívar of first-degree murder, for which she received life with the possibility of parole.

According to the new report, Saldívar has never wavered from arguing that it was an accident.

"As the wheels of justice turn, a family member of the convicted killer told The Post that Saldívar views herself as a 'political prisoner' who has 'paid her debt to society,'" according to the report.