Victim: I Saw Shyne and Puffy With Guns

Feb. 5 -- Natania Reuben testified today that she saw guns in the hands of rap artists Sean "Puffy" Combs and Jamal "Shyne" Barrow in the moments before she was shot in a Manhattan nightclub.

She recalled the frantic moments before the December 1999 shooting inside Club NY, telling jurors that both men fired weapons. The incident left her with seven bullet fragments lodged in her head.

"I blinked and when I opened my eyes up I just felt like a sledgehammer hit my face," said Reuben, 30, one of three people wounded in the shooting.

"Blood began pouring out of my face," she said. "I just looked up to the sky and I said, 'Oh, God, Don't take me.'"

‘I Heard … Bam-Bam’

Reuben was the second shooting victim to testify for the prosecution in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan. Combs, 31, faces gun and bribery charges, which he denies. His protégé, Barrow, 21, faces three counts of attempted murder. A third defendant, Combs' bodyguard, Anthony "Wolf" Jones, 34, is being tried along with them on weapons possession and bribery charges.

Reuben owned a beauty salon at the time of the shooting and was an aspiring singer who occasionally hung out at the Times Square nightclub.

Just before she was shot, she recalled, Barrow and Combs were involved in a fight with other men. "I saw his [Combs'] arms coming up with a black gun," she said. Seconds later, "I heard … bam-bam."

In a daze, Reuben was trampled as clubgoers ran for cover.

"There was a lot of chaos and people were falling on top of me," she said.

After the shooting she spent five weeks in the hospital, with just one of the bullet fragments removed from her head. Doctors tell her they cannot risk removing the remaining bullet fragments and she now complains of headaches and seizures. She has filed separate lawsuits against the three defendants, including a $150 million complaint against Combs.

Reuben is the first witness to testify that Combs, a Grammy-winning performer and producer, fired a gun in the nightclub.