‘They are incorrect’: Selena’s father dispels longtime rumor about her death

Selena’s father finally addressed rumors that she was denied life-saving procedures that could have prevented her death.

Abraham Quintanilla discussed with Corpus Christi station 3 News the life-saving efforts doctors took to keep the Tejano legend alive. He shot down rumors that he denied Selena a blood transfusion because of religious beliefs.

“Selena was given blood by the doctor. When she arrived at the hospital at the emergency room after she was shot,” Quintanilla tells 3 News.

Selena died at Memorial Hospital despite the blood transfusion on March 31, 1995 after she was shot an killed by her former boutique manager Yolanda Saldivar.

It’s been a long-circulated rumor that Quintanilla was partly responsible for Selena’s death by denying her a blood transfusion because they raised the family in the Jehovah’s Witness faith.

“For 26 years, I have read on social media, people criticizing me that Selena died because I didn’t want to give her blood,” Quintanilla says. “That it was religious fanaticism. They are incorrect, completely incorrect.”

Quintanilla was promoting his new memoir, A Father’s Dream, where he gives readers a look into his life. The book, released May of this year, “chronicles the life of a musician, performer, man of God, and successful Mexican American entrepreneur” per its description.