Pistol Used to Kill Selena Is Found

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Selena Fans) - The revolver used to kill Tejano singer Selena turned up at the home of the court reporter from the shooter's 1995 trial, investigators said.

The .38-caliber Taurus revolver was lost after the trial of Yolanda Saldivar, the former president of Selena's fan club who killed the Grammy winner at a Corpus Christi motel in March 1995. Saldivar was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.

Former court reporter Sandra Oballe, who is now studying law in Houston, didn't know she had the weapon, Nueces County District Attorney Carlos Valdez said. The gun was found in a box of office supplies at her home.
"When she left employment with the county, they had boxed up a bunch of stuff that was in her office and taken it away," Valdez said in Wednesday's Corpus Christi Caller-Times. "We asked her to do us a favor and look through the stuff that she had taken home."

A phone message left Wednesday for Oballe in Houston was not immediately returned.
The gun will probably be destroyed, Valdez said.