GATESVILLE, Texas - The former Dallas police officer sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her neighbor will be housed in the same prison as the woman who killed Grammy Award winning singer Selena.
Amber Guyger, 31, will be housed at the Mountain View facility in Texas, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst.
Hurst confirmed that Yolanda Saldivar, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1995 in the shooting death of singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, is also housed at that facility.
The prisonMountain View is a maximum security prison for female inmates in Gatesville, Texas, about 90 miles north of Austin in Coryell County.
The prison houses a maximum of 645 people, including death row inmates, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website.