Full Episode Death of Innocence: Selena Quintanilla & Christina Grimmie E! True Hollywood Story

three stars in three different decades actress Rebecca Schaefer I think she had enormous potential tahano music sensation Selena Kinia Perez 5 minutes in the room you were a fan and singing sensation on YouTube Christina Grimmy she was a little girl and a man that voice It's as big as it is different. As these artists were something that united them, they were pushed too soon to the brink of their success when fan adoration turned deadly. I knew how many people love Christina. I just didn't know the extent to which she reached millions of people. They were all very open and loving and the kind of people that attracted millions of fans for some fans the line between fantasy and reality can become increasingly blurred evil can infiltrate your house and you don't know that evil is there artists on the verge of super stardom taken down by fans who believe they were intimately connected to them.

I think it was the first time that Ser just couldn't believe it. She would give anything for her fans and then a fan has to take her life. He says, Joseph, I am. telling you that my daughter is gone exclusive interviews revealed the truth behind three lives tragically cut short by the same people who claim to love them this is their

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not everyone who is born with talent has the drive to achieve fame these three women had both the gift and passion were successful Against All Odds, but the fame they achieved attracted the unwanted attention of three obsessed fans.

One of those talents was Rebecca Schaer. Schaefer caught the acting bug at the age of 16 and moved to New York to pursue her dreams of stardom. Her mother was extraordinary. She let her go to New York because she trusted Rebecca to make the right decisions because Rebecca was kind and honest. If someone gave you a kit with all the parts to have a daughter, it would be in a few months. Rebecca had landed her first role in the series. soap opera One Life to Live I trusted you with my life, can't you trust me? The soap opera brought Schaefer to the attention of CBS, who realized her potential by casting the 19-year-old actress as Pam Dobber's younger sister on the series. my sister Sam hi I'm Patty Russell this is my sister Sam I just moved I think she had enormous potential her humor was amazing she would come out of nowhere and the basis was

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and curiosity Sam What's going on here ?

Some kind of secret meeting. No, she would love for people to come up and ask her to sign an autograph. She didn't mean to be very cool and you know, oh, I can't, I'm busy now. energy of a woman and the

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of a child, but I think she knew she was going to be a star delighted with her newfound fame. Schaer told Hollywood Reporter journalist Sue Cameron about the avalanche of fan mail she was receiving. Look, I'm getting food from fans. and it's great and I'm responding to them and it's wonderful and I went wait a minute, you can't do that, they're not your friends.

Cameron's advice proved eerily prescient when a 16-year-old with a family hi

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of mental illness named Robert BTO approached the rising star, she's

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of energy and I love that he keeps it up. I started, she became the most important thing in her life. This appears to be a case of aromamania, a delusional belief that there is a real relationship with a celebrity. BAU believes he is in a relationship with Rebecca Schaer. She began obsessively writing fan letters of hers telling her how much he loved her and sending her gifts. Rebecca Schaefer sent him a response form that she had autographed for BTO.

It was like a personal message. He actually goes from Tucson where he lives to Hollywood to the production lot where they're filming my sister Sam there to come out here, we know we've been told she shouldn't be here, he's very mean to me you know, and when I left , she was very angry and upset, that was when I think it was the first time I seriously thought about what it could do to her. Oblivious to the growing danger, Schaefer focused on her career. She landed a role in Paul Bartell's extravagant bedroom farce scenes about class warfare in Beverly Hills playing a sexually adventurous 20-year-old woman. -some my idea of ​​taking a risk is losing my birth control pills or buying sex without an offer, she was like a kind hour who wanted to work for me, TR magician said of her, it's like someone had ruined her Rebecca and had her replaced with this. another person and therefore there is a loss of this idealized person the anger that arises from that often results in this violent performance BAU hired a private investigator who was able to easily find Schaer's home address using DMV records now it seems crazy for someone to do it could get someone's personal information through the DMV, but at the time there were no barriers to that, he decides he's going to go home and grab a gun.

Rebecca was auditioning for Al Pacino's career-making role. daughter in The Godfather Part Three Rebecca was waiting for the script she would need for her audition, so maybe that's why she opened the door to this stranger thinking he was handing her this script. I introduced myself. I'm a friend of Rebecca. She apologized. prepare for his audition a few minutes later, BTO came back, you know, I thought it was cool to move on, why did the BAU flee the scene leaving Schaer dying on the stairs of his apartment building in West Hollywood the next day, the police in Tucson, Arizona, he found it.

Bardo running into traffic on Interstate 10 screaming that he had killed Rebecca Schaer was arrested and returned to Los Angeles to await trial, but the trial did not last long. He was capable of premeditation. I made my decision immediately after hearing all the evidence of life. no chance of parole Rebecca Schaefer's family was there when the verdict was read he will be there for the rest of his life thank God the Rebecca Schaefer case was kind of a turning point for us to start talking about storage, created the first anti-storage law that worked to try to punish harassers before it got worse and now we have the driver privacy protection law that says no one can get private addresses from DMV records.

Another big step forward here was a confident young woman whose doorbell rang and she responded that she was going to be a big star. I think she would have been one of the biggest in 1990. The anti-harassment law was passed in Rebecca's honor, but no such law could protect young pop legend Selena from the aatam maniac hiding on the plain. seen in her inner circle who would take her to the top of her career in 1995 how Houston is doing ha at the age of 23 Selena was a legend in the making after winning four Billboard Latin Music Awards and a major Grammy that was just point of receiving.

Become an Epic Proportions crossover pop star. She could draw you in 5 minutes in the room. You were a fan and felt like you'd known her forever. She was a hybrid of Madonna Janet Mariah Gloria Stefan and at the same time, unlike any other artist. In 1980 at his me meic restaurant in Lake Jackson, Texas, Abraham Kinia paired his 6-year-old daughter Selena with her two older brothers to form a family band called Selena elos dinos. They performed everything from Diana Ross to Super tra. Selena's early promise blossomed and her father made a decision that would put 10-year-old Selena on the path to superstardom by tackling the male-dominated genre of Tano music made popular by bands like Texas Tornadoes and Mafia.

The fact is, she grew up here. a second language for her, she learned Spanish phonetically, she was more focused on the emotion behind it, her music transcended language and she had a personality that was contagious. I know everyone loved Soena. Her brother told me that he should go see them play. I was a little music star. I just remember his face, his laugh, just an incredible soul, an incredible spirit, shortly after his brother called me and asked me if I was ready to join the band when we started going to Mexico, things became a lot bigger.

Selena built on her initial success. Selena. earning the respect of the Latin music industry and multiple awards, you're spoiling me in 1989. 18-year-old Selena was becoming the queen of Tano music, but she was yet to sign with a major label and had very little general notoriety. I opened Emi Latin and I had no artist I had nothing let's go to the tahano awards I've had enough and I get up and start to leave and when I get to the doors I hear this massive roar and I turn around and Selena is on stage I was with a colleague and We looked at each other and said wow and it fit I was determined to make her the first signing at Emi I saw a star I thought she was going to be the next Gloria Asun she was a role model for all the Spanish speaking girls in Texas, it wasn't just the young girls those who admired the newly created Latin Superstar in a 1991 performance in San Antonio, Texas, oh my God, you are animals.

Selena caught the attention of a 31-year-old man. An old registered nurse named Yolanda Salivar who tracked down the singer's father, Abraham, had left quite a few messages on my recorder wanting to start a fan club in the San Antonio area for Selena. Those messages put Selena on a collision course with Yolanda salivating when she first arrived. We accepted her as a friend to our Circle. Yolanda spoke about her desire to start the fan club during my college years. I had no social life. I dedicated myself through my University. My career. My license. Now it was time to have fun.

Tell me about her first meeting, like when she met Whitney Houston. She trusted this woman at one point and all that went south and then I was at her funeral. There probably wasn't a single white rose left in the entire state of Texas in the early '90s. 22 12-year-old Selena's career and personal life were taking off. She fell in love with the band's guitarist Chris Pérez. She taught me a lot of simple things, like she never told people that I love them, you know?, or I miss them, or I just give them away. gifts only because I learned those things and many other things from her the couple married on April 2, 1992 in 1993 Selena recorded a live album for Emi Latin in front of 3,000 fans at the memorial coliseum in Corpus Christie Texas but without English- album spoken she was still an unknown in the United States of the UN, since in my book I write a lot about how smart she was and how business savvy she was.

She had plans to one day create a brand, so in 1994 Selena turned her attention to hiring a new company. designer Martín Gómez to create clothes for her boutique Selena Etc. she was more than just a singer entertainment was her job fashion was her passion but with a demanding performance schedule Selena needed someone to manage the boutiques Yolanda salivar had earned Selena's trust after she established the Selena fan club. and she became part of her family, so Selena offered the job to Yolanda. Yolanda was involved in behaviors to bridge the gap between them by becoming the president of the fan club and then finding her way into Selena's life.

She had access to business accounts that even she had the key to Selena's house, so she now felt part of Selena's life to the point where she began to leave her old life behind and focus on herself. Selena. Yolanda's unhealthy crush on Selena came to light when later that year Martin Gómez sent an assistant to pick up something from Yolanda's house, when the assistant returned she told GES that Yolanda had dozens of photographs and posters of Selena in its walls. Being a fan of someone is one thing, but having all of that person's posters on their wall. listen to their music non-stop reference that person in their lives That celebrity becomes central to their identity evil can infiltrate your house and you don't know that evil is there Yolanda later claimed that she and Selena had a warm mother- daughter relationship, she saw herself as a protective caregiver who had this special relationship where Selena needed her the same way patients need a nurse.

Selena must have looked at Yolanda as a very stable and trustworthy character, she worked hard for her, she was dedicated to her, so until now, she hasn't shown me any reason why I should suspect her of anything unworthy. trustworthy, while Yolanda saw herself as a mother figure, those closest to Selena were increasingly concerned about Salivar's strange behavior in this video shoot and she is giving orders to people and This was not the The first time we hear this, the other employees complain about Yolanda's strange behavior saying that she abuses them if they try to talk to Selina.

You know, evil took over me. I experienced evil in this situation and did not say. anything and I should have maybe but I didn't, I didn't as Yolanda's obsession was intensifying. Selena's talents were reaching new heights and her dreams were beginning to manifest. In 1994, Selena was nominated for her first Grammy in the category of Best Mexican Album by Aman for Selena Live The Grammy Goes to Live Selenathank you for having faith in me I love you thank you newborn or winning the Grammy Selina released her fourth studio album Amore Prohibido consolidating her Superstar status in Latin music Selena believed it was the right time to take her career to the next level with the album in english we had been talking about the album in english for quite a while and one day in the middle of the conversation she just broke down and started crying and said José, we have been talking about my album in english for 3 years what she didn't know It's just that I was getting rejection on all fronts and I called my boss and told him I couldn't keep her anymore, we have to move because she's going to do a deal with Universal Music, which no one What I never knew is that I made up that she doesn't I was going to go to Universal and there was no deal and I lied and I don't regret doing it a year after winning the Grammy for Selena live, the singer finally got the green light and started recording her crossover album in 1995, everyone felt it would be a home run thanks to her, to her talent, to Selena, the person, we went through a couple of songs that I had written and we chose.2 I can fall in love was the first, so she took a trip back to that song and said : I'll see you in 2 weeks as Selena prepared to record her crossover album.

Yolanda's work for the star became suspect when Selena's father began to notice discrepancies in the books of both the fan club and the fashion business. Yolanda had taken some employee funds to give Selena a gift and we later found out that she paid with Selena's corporate card. A closer look revealed that there were more than 60,000 missing from the boutique and the embezzlement of the fan club would prove to be only the first act of Yolanda's betrayal. A fateful meeting is approaching. I don't think Selena will come for a minute. What a WR we have a woman running in the lobby, she said.

Selena's meteoric rise to stardom in the Latin music industry paved the way for her ambitious crossover into mainstream music in 1995. By mid-March, the singer was halfway through recording her first album. in English. The exact details of the record were sure that Selena was prepared to take her. place alongside pop giants like Madonna Selena's potential at that time could have been through the roof the album entirely in English I thought it would take her to the next level she was super excited this had been her dream I knew that dream was going to come

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done Actually, it was inevitable, I mean, you can't stop a talent like hers while Selena was ready to conquer the mainstream market.

Yolanda's salivating obsession with the singer turned into panic as she struggled to deny allegations that she had embezzled more than $60,000 from the Boutique singer and fan. club Yolanda was confronted about the alleged embezzlement of funds did she steal money from Selena's business no ma'am you will never be able to tell me if she was angry frustrated no I was never angry I was never frustrated we were going to fire her but she was I was not going to prosecute her I felt frustrated because we knew that she was lying the family told Yolanda you can no longer have contact with Selena they cut you off for Yolanda that was catastrophic because Selena was her life Yolanda cannot tolerate losing the position she has as As it is special in Selena's life, there are so many rage at that Rapture that has to get rid of her.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think this woman would react this way on March 31, 1995. Yolanda asked Selena to meet her one day at Corpus Christie, to talk about the misunderstanding, she told Selena to come alone. She had some financial documents that Selena would need for her business. confront her, which was a mistake, so Selena agreed to meet Yolanda, but before Yolanda gave her the papers, she convinced Selena to take her to the hospital once again, a very manipulative move she said had been raped and needed to go get an exam, so Selena. Being kind, I took her and they did the exam at the hospital and there was no evidence that she had been raped.

The story that Yolanda created about having been raped seems to me like an act of trying to close that gap between the two to maintain contact and not lose the connection Selena and Yolanda returned to the days around 11: That morning at 11:48 the guests heard two women arguing loudly I don't think Selena saw this coming for a minute I can only see her say look uh I know that what you did was wrong we will solve it we will solve it I know at one point she held this woman she trusted in high regard and all of that went south just before noon a single gunshot rang out at 91 na Boulevard us A woman ran in the lobby and said he had been shot.

She is on the ground. There is blood. She appears to be in her 20s as hotel staff tried to stop the bleeding. The police and an ambulance were rushing to the place where Yolanda had barricaded herself in her truck. Local reporters. began to cover the confrontation at the store the deputy chief of police tells us that they have provided a phone to the suspect exactly why I bought it to commit suicide I was going to commit suicide naturally if I was going to kill someone They took Selena in an ambulance and He was rushed to a nearby hospital while he was fighting for his life.

A police negotiator arrived a few days later at a motel where Yolanda put the gun to his head and he refused to come out. We trust in God that you will come out and that everything will be fine. the eyes of Jesus Christ, I was testing the gun, TR was here, I'm going to commit suicide and when I took it out it went off because the barrel was backwards, I didn't need to have an accident, the most likely scenario is that upon experiencing the loss of that idealized relationship wanted to kill Selena the one who was disappointed in her the Selena who was angry with her wanted Selena to come out of the closet in a 1995 interview with 2020 Yolanda revealed why she gave up why not Didn't you commit suicide when you were in the car all those 9 and a half hours?

I heard her tell me don't commit suicide because I'll never see you in heaven. That is such a telling statement of what was going on. In Yolanda's head was this illusion that even though she had shot Selena, Selena still loved her. Selena fights for her life. I get a call and she tells me that Selena was shot and then cut another talented young woman on the verge of stardom. by an obsessed fan opened fire and the live shot one of her ears, singing sensation Selena was shot with spit on March 31, 1995, the singer was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead at 1 :05 p.m.

She was 23 years old I got a phone call and it's Abraham and he tells me my daughter is gone I told him what do you mean what do you mean she's gone he said José she's gone she's gone I was actually working on her track and I walked I walked out to the central area of ​​the studio and my studio manager came over and said Selena was dead and I said what and I felt a physical pain in my heart. I'll never forget being at her funeral, there probably wasn't a single white rose left. throughout the state of Texas now I get emotional when I talk about her it's very difficult it was traumatic it was the hardest thing up to that point I had ever had to go through I missed her face her laugh she was just an incredible Soul, an incredible spirit.

I heard fans say: how could we let that happen? Come on now, like you thought she'd let anything happen to her, seriously, like none of us thought that was even a possibility along the way, we had security. so I never feared for her safety, especially the way it happened to her, the fact that one of her friends did that, it's just unbelievable, but

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would not stop the rise of Selena's star nor silence her talent that the world suddenly wanted. listening to Selena make the English record that was always like her next big goal, I felt like we had to finish it, we had to set a release date in a month and we were sitting at the control boards crying trying to mix these songs.

They pressed play for me to record the guitar tracks and hear her voice coming out of the speakers in the studio. It was painful to go in and have to create parts and make them sound a certain way when really inside you you were just dying. I remember. for the first time I had to listen to dreaming about you which to this day I don't hear I've been in the car with my daughter when it turns on you know we changed that it's very sad for me to hear that the record debut at number one, but she doesn't was here to watch it with us and it just wasn't right, it wasn't right then, it's not right today seeing it at number one just confirmed everything I thought you knew it was.

It's kind of bittersweet, you know, my friend, my friend, she's gone, but I'm listening to her sing on the radio and it's our song, you know, it's like that, it was difficult, unfortunately she couldn't see her dream come true, there was no way. she wasn't going to be the next Gloria that would ever think of hurting this woman, she was crazy in the head obviously, as we found out, 7 months after Selena was murdered, Yolanda salivar went to trial, she said she was going to that. hotel room to end things with Selena and when he told Selena that Selena dropped to the floor and stood up and begged him not to end the relationship, this is classic Romania where now you are projecting your illusion on this other person and saying that they are the ones who have this internal love story towards you on October 23, 1995 jurus found salivar guilty of first degree murder she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole until 2025 most people yes you lose someone in your family you grieve well and go through your process and you can choose when you want to think about it.

I couldn't do that, I had no control. I could be in another headspace and then, boom, a song comes on. like everything falls apart again and you have to start over, but look at all the amazing things she left us in that short period of time in the years since her

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. Selena's iconic status has only grown with a 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Lopez and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2020. The singer's album Migo was selected by the Library of Congress to be included in its registry. national recordings. What an honor for her to have those phonograph recordings preserved in the now quite large Library of Congress. getting to listen to the songs and relate the joy that people feel and not just the pain that I felt at the time I was recording them, she unites families, you know, from generation to generation we are all proud of her and the things she still manages to appear a singing sensation on YouTube comes face to face with a deranged fan she was reaching out to hug the person who murdered her that says a lot about her in the age of social media the lines between stars and fans have become increasingly blurred, with few to no boundaries, this new accessibility can increase a star's popularity, but also open the door to unwanted obsession.

The derang fan can now intensify his delusional fantasy in ways that did not exist in Rebecca Schaefer's day. This aatam Mania improved. This led to tragedy for YouTube star Christina Grimmy when you're making videos at home and people are watching them in their homes, they feel a sense of intimacy with you that they don't feel with traditional celebrities that she actually had at 17 years old. -Girl making videos at her mom and dad's house, so people really resonated with her because she was just one of us. I interviewed her on so many occasions. I named it after one of my favorite YouTube friends Christina Grimmy.

I'm one of my favorites. I feel really special when I think about her. I really think of her as a friend. The key to Christina's personality was that she became well known in The Gaming Community. The 3DS. We are 15 months apart. I am the older brother. She is my. My little sister and I were always player one, she was always player two, so I had a p on my right arm and she had two ps in the same place on her left arm. She was always a very good singer and she excelled in everything she put in.

In 2009, at the age of 15, Christina uploaded her first singing video and, like Selena, her talent at a young age was undeniable. She can hit those notes like Christina Aguilera, she can run like Mariah, but she's a little girl and a man whose voice is big. I thought you said she was a hardcore introvert. Getting to that point where she could comfortably express herself was difficult, so YouTube really helped her develop throughout 2012. Grimy continued to post covers of hit songs requested by her fans, including. songs by Nelly and David Geta proved to be a winning formula that made Christina the fourth most subscribed musician on YouTube.

I think it came out of a time when artists were controlled by labels to a certain extent and here comes Christina and she says what she feels and just takes it. this huge fan base of people who love her for being herself. I love my fans and she makes me feel like maybe one day she will have a chance. There is a word that, as far as I know, itselfinvention. Friends, um, you guys are great. tough friend, which is a mixture of the word fan and friend. I love you and thank you for supporting me and you never know, maybe one day I will receive a Grammy, oh my God, are you hiding among the many fans who celebrated the dirty success? was the dangerously obsessed Kevin LEL Best Buy Tech Keith Moran described his coworker in a 2018 interview.

He was an advanced repair agent, which is basically the highest level of computer repair technology. There is a very intelligent guy. We invited him to places and things as he just did. He didn't mind having much of an outside social life like Robert BAU and Yolanda salivate LEL had many of the characteristics of AA Mania Kevin Lyel didn't have many friends he was so socially awkward that they had to put him in an area of ​​the story where he didn't have much contact with the clients' best friend, Corey Dennington, he would later tell Orlando police that he was the only person who knew anything about Kevin's growing obsession with Christina Grimmy.

He told me that if there is a God, he sees him. In it, he would be going home after her work seeing her oblivious to any danger. Brewing Christina continued her rise on social media by entering the 2011 my YouTube competition, placing seconds behind another aspiring music star, Selena Gomez. Selena's mother, Mandy, offered to manage the budding singer's career. and Christina announced her first album released in 2011 with the help of Mandy and Selena. Grimmie quickly went from digital darling to rising mainstream media star who appeared on The Ellen Show in 2011. I got a phone call and she said, "I think we're going to be on Ellen and I thought we made a version of how to love and I think that's her best version of Fig Out.

Christina's star was rising fast when she auditioned for The Voice in 2014, winning coach Adam Lavine's heart by singing a Miley cover.Cyrus Anthem Wrecking Ball for me is it. one of the best, if not the best cover ever by an unknown artist. I walked in like I wanted to break your world. It was cool to see the difference of how she was super respected in this underground community and then validated by. one of the biggest shows in the world. Wow, the third place singer was our girl Christina Grimmy. She's been a friend of ours on the show for a long time, so it was a total revelation that she got my vote after making the decision. third place on The Voice Christina won the iHeart Radio Rising Star contest in 2015.

The first time we got together to write, it was like we became really good, close friends. She would share the story of a fan who knew her. Say hello, we're going to eat after the show, do you want to come with us? I'd say you know I'm really always here for you because you're always here for me as Christina's star continued to rise. Kevin Lal. The obsession deepened lasc eye surgery hair surgery uh he was losing weight to become a professional streamer with video games and then that would lead him to meet her Kevin LEL gets involved in this whole transformation the idea of ​​becoming the person of his dreams would be the path towards getting closer to her on the way to that fateful day.

Narrows, I jump on the guy who immediately yells at him, it just baffles me like nothing and the darker side of fame. I receive a message from my sister. I can't believe what happened to him. Grimmie singing sensation Christina Grimmie was on the brink of super stardom, but along with fame came unwanted attention from manic aatam Kevin LEL. I've been watching a lot of fan videos just now and you guys legitimately make me cry because I love you so much. Kevin ly had already moved into his mind as a kind of untouchable, something preserved that he wanted to hold on to and he wasn't interested in reality puncturing that fantasy bubble in some way similar to BTO before him.

Kevin Lyal's descent into Obsession. and the nomania was apparently sparked by a perceived betrayal, she started dating this guy and had just posted a photo of her and steven on social media that supposedly set this gunslinger off in early june. Grimmy posted this message, please come to the show if you live near Orlando. Florida we are in the plaza live please come out bye bye how was that day he is how I love you brother and he grabbed my shoulder he told me he is tired he is ready to ascend at 700 p.m. On the night of June 10, 2016, 22-year-old Christina Grimmie took the stage at the live plaza in Orlando, Florida, Florida during the concert.

Kevin Lyel was captured on security cameras at the back of the venue waiting for the post-concert meet-and-greet to greet Christina. Brother Marcus later described the tragic events that followed the normal night concerts, the concerts, getting ready, just selling merchandise, she's meeting people, marus, did you hear any statements the guy made before that she didn't say nothing, literally nothing? She considered her fans to be sincere and genuinely her. Guys, she just wanted to give this guy a hug, you know, at her meet and greet, she just walked up, it just happened, I hear a gunshot and I'm looking at more gunshots.

I jumped on the guy immediately, yelled at him and he just baffled me like it was nothing he opened fire on the pile alive he shot one of her ears he was shot three times at about 10:45 p.m. The officers were shot. We know that his brother approached the suspect and that's when the suspect shot himself. Christina was rushed to Orlando Regional Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and chest. I get a text from my sister saying, "I can't believe this." what happened to Grimmie and I'm going to say what happened to Grimmie and within half an hour we found out that she had died and I mean, she was crushing.

The only way I can reconcile all of that is like she's a Faith person, she's really sorry, I'm not sorry at all, I'm actually just trying to process all of this, she would give anything for her fans and then a fan has to take her life, that was horrible, the concept that still makes me emotional that she was reaching out to hug the person who murdered her, it just says a lot about her, just a genuine loving spirit, the fact that she no longer Being there was really hard, but it definitely brought us closer as a family, it's just something.

That made me appreciate life so much more. In the weeks that followed, fans expressed their love, pain, and gratitude with thousands of posts and photos on social media. Above all, I am so grateful that her fans kept her legacy alive in 2017. Christina Grim's family established a foundation in her name to provide resources to families devastated by gun violence. The shooting at the Pulse nightclub occurred two days later. That really hit me hard because of the number of families that were changed forever and didn't have the support that we had. Selena Rebecca and Christina interacted with their audience in a way that only increased the love the fans had for them, they were all very open and loving and the type of people that attracted millions of fans, for three of those fans, an illusion of connection powered by ramania. ended in violence and tragedy, while we will never know the heights Selena Rebecca or Christina could have reached had they lived, there is no denying the legacy their talent and their lives left behind.

Selena became a phenomenon. I think she reached deeply into those people and into this. The day continues to do that Rebecca was great, you don't have people like that in your life all the time she was very innocent in her outlook on life and she mirrors Ed in the way she was with people and I miss her and I know it's listening to us and we sure love you Rebecca, if I had the chance to say anything to Christina I would just say thank you for being someone who paved the way for so many people in a kind and sincere way, oh god she still makes me feel like one.

One of the most important things is hearing people say, "Oh, the way she made me feel, I want other people to feel that way too."