The newly indicted Sean “Diddy” Combs was tried in New York City for firing a gun inside a Manhattan club in 2001 but was acquitted by a jury at the time.
Combs was on trial for an incident that occurred on December 29, 1999, at Club New York on West 43rd Street in which three club-goers were injured.
Combs is specifically accused of firing one shot into the ceiling of a Midtown dance club and then working with his then-girlfriend, superstar Jennifer Lopez, to try to bribe driver Wardell Fenderson to take the blame for a second gun found in the getaway car.
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Combs, who was 31 at the time, could have faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the top charge, but told jurors he fired in self-defense.
“I thought I'd been shot,” he said on the witness stand at the time.
On March 16, 2001, after a jury deliberated for 22 hours, Combs and his bodyguard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, were both acquitted.
Young rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow was acquitted of attempted murder but found guilty of first-degree assault for shooting and killing two passers-by.
