Exclusive: LAPD report shows cops didn't question Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after 2022 shooting


Exclusive: LAPD report shows cops didn

Published 15 April 2025 LOS ANGELES ― Producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones Jr. says he was two feet from a closed bathroom door inside Sean "Diddy" Combs' Los Angeles music studio when shots rang out on September 12, 2022. When the door opened, Combs and his son, Justin Dior Combs, allegedly walked out, leaving a third man bleeding on the floor in a fetal position with gunshot wounds, Jones says in a civil lawsuit. Jones says he rushed in, put pressure on a wound to the victim's torso and lifted him onto the toilet seat, instructing an assembled crowd to call 911. He then carried the victim, a musician nicknamed “G,” to the front of Chalice Recording Studios to await an ambulance, Jones' lawsuit claims. The man survived. Photos included in the suit show blood dripping from the toilet seat down the side of the bowl, more blood on the floor, clothing strewn on and near the toilet, and stained and crumpled paper towels. Jones also says he still has the clothing he was wearing that day, which may still have the victim's DNA on it. But an 18-page Los Angeles Police Department report of the shooting exclusively obtained by USA TODAY makes no mention of the bloody scene. Instead, it shows that police focused their efforts on an altercation outside the studio. The report paints a far different picture than the one described in Jones' suit and raises questions about what really happened. Did the shooting follow an argument among the three men inside the building, as Jones suit alleges? Or was it the result of an attempted robbery outside that had nothing to do with the music mogul, as the police report indicates? According to Jones, Combs insisted that he tell the police "G" had been shot in a drive-by outside, rather than after "a heated conversation" inside.