{"id":1018597,"date":"2024-03-31T17:15:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T00:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/?p=1018597"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:53:13","slug":"victim-of-infamous-nyc-club-shooting-insists-sean-diddy-combs-shot-her-in-the-face-decades-ago-wants-to-test-bullet-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2024\/03\/31\/victim-of-infamous-nyc-club-shooting-insists-sean-diddy-combs-le-disparo-en-la-cara-hace-decadas-quiere-probar-fragmentos-de-bala\/","title":{"rendered":"Club New York Shooting Victim Natania Reuben Says Sean Combs Shot Her in the Face and Wants the Bullet Fragments Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early hours of December 27, 1999, gunfire tore through Club New York. Natania Reuben was hit in the face. She says she still carries fragments of a 9mm round. She says Sean Combs pulled the trigger. Combs has never been convicted of that shooting. A $1.8 million civil settlement closed part of the 1999 case without a criminal finding on who fired.<\/p>\n

One of the three people hurt that night, Reuben told NewsNation’s \u00abElizabeth Vargas Reports\u00bb<\/a> in March 2024 that she wants a doctor to cut fragments out of her face so ballistics can be run. \u00abI’m willing to have a doctor remove a part of the nine-millimeter bullet in my face so that they can use it as evidence if need be for this trial, and it may cost me my life,\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n

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Natania Reuben after the gunshot wound to her face at Club New York in December 1999. (Michael Norcia\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jamal \u00abShyne\u00bb Barrow admitted at trial that he fired a gun that night. Reuben has maintained for decades that Barrow was held accountable for Combs. The shooting happened around 2:55 a.m. at the now-closed Times Square club. She has described nine fragments remaining in her face and head, and lasting effects she says include seizures. Three people were struck. Contemporaneous reporting described them as bystanders.<\/p>\n

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Reuben has testified that she watched Combs brandish a firearm. (Luiz Ribeiro\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barrow, then 21 and in Combs’ group, was arrested as he fled with a gun. Jennifer Lopez, then dating Combs, was arrested, cooperated, and was released without charges. Combs and Lopez left in a Lincoln Navigator and were stopped on Eighth Avenue. After a six-week trial in 2001, Barrow was convicted of assault and gun possession and sentenced to ten years. Combs and bodyguard Anthony \u00abWolf\u00bb Jones were acquitted of weapons charges. Combs has denied firing.<\/p>\n

Reuben testified that she felt as though \u00aba flaming hot sledgehammer had hit me in the face\u00bb and that she \u00absaw Mr. Combs… pull out a black gun with his right hand.\u00bb On NewsNation she said, \u00abI literally watched them pull out the guns, I had a clear point of view. I mean, for God’s sake, I got shot in my nose.\u00bb She has also claimed that after the District Attorney’s office received information about a threat, she was relocated out of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

A settled civil case and a renewed spotlight<\/h2>\n

Reuben filed a $130 million civil lawsuit against Combs and Barrow. Reporting at the time indicated Combs, Barrow, and the club reached confidential settlements with the three wounded clubgoers, with Reuben said to have received $1.8 million. She later appeared in Investigation Discovery’s \u00abFall of Diddy\u00bb and Netflix’s \u00abSean Combs: The Reckoning.\u00bb<\/p>\n