Records Show Witnesses Called Combs, Guard
Telephone calls were made between Sean “Puffy” Combs or his entourage and witnesses who later testified Combs did not have a gun during a nightclub shooting, according to records presented Wednesday at his gun possession and bribery trial.
The three witnesses had testified about events during a Dec. 27, 1999, shooting at a Times Square club in which three people were wounded. Each witness denied speaking with the rap entrepreneur after the incident.
Club New York security guard Charise Myers said she never spoke to Combs after the incident, but records show a three-minute call from her home to Combs’ cell phone on Jan. 8, 2000.
The records also show five calls in January from a cell phone owned by Christopher Chambers, an auto technician who testified that he did not know Combs. Combs apparently called him once that month.
A third set of calls, 22 of them in December, came from witness Glen Beck’s home to a Combs bodyguard, Paul Offord.
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