The classmate, who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution, says her concerns were validated when Combs appeared outside the school’s Harriet Tubman Quadrangle dorm and started screaming in a “belligerent” manner for his girlfriend to come outside. The classmate says other women soon began running through the halls, knocking on doors in a panic. They were sounding the alarm that Combs, known then by his nickname “Puff,” was attacking the young woman outside, she recalls.
“Puff is out here acting crazy. He’s beating her,” the fellow students said, according to the classmate.
“He screamed and hollered and acted a stone fool until she came downstairs,” another Howard student who witnessed the alleged attack tells Rolling Stone. She says Combs used what appeared to be a belt to strike the young woman “all over the place.”
