Publisher's Synopsis
"I took it out to tell her 'Look I'm going to kill myself' and she said 'No Yolanda' and she turned to open the door to - to call for help or something...and I told her 'No' and I just - and I - I never pointed a gun at anybody and it just went off...I bought this gun to kill myself. Not her. Not her. And she told me 'Yolanda, I don't want you to kill yourself.' And we were talking about it when I took it out and pointed it to my head. And when I pointed it to my head, she opened the door. I said 'Selena close that door, ' and when I said that the gun went off."[1]In order to learn more about Yolanda Saldivar, it is necessary to know about the woman she murdered - Selena Quintanilla, because the murder was, by itself, unremarkable. However, the victim was a beloved singer who was idolized by many, and her untimely death propelled Saldivar firmly into the spotlight. Their lives were intertwined, and as such one cannot tell the story of one without telling the story of the other
