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Former National Football League star Antonio Brown is heading to Miami to confront an attempted murder charge connected with a gunfire that happened in May, as his counsel filing a innocent declaration on his behalf.

Jail logs in Essex, New Jersey, show that Brown was released on Tuesday morning for his relocation to Florida. Brown, a highly popular athletes in the National Football League, had forgone transfer to Florida from New Jersey, where he was detained after being arrested in the city of Dubai.

Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said in an email that he has earlier lodged a written not guilty declaration to the attempted murder accusation. Brown could be in a Miami court as early as Wednesday morning for a bond session, Eiglarsh stated.

Based on his arrest document, Brown is accused of taking a firearm from a security employee after a public figure fighting event in May and discharging two shots at a person he had fought with before. The claimed victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators that one shot touched his throat.

Eiglarsh said that Brown was merely defending himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was compelled to take were exclusively in self-protection against the alleged individual’s hostile actions. Brown was assaulted that time and responded within his legal entitlement to safeguard himself,” Eiglarsh stated.

Brown was not immediately detained because initially police did not recognize Nantambu as a affected party. It wasn’t until afterward in May that Nantambu delivered a full account about the incident to authorities and pointed out Brown as the shooter, the affidavit states.

According to his digital updates, Brown had been living in the city of Dubai for a number of weeks. In a update after the altercation, Brown said he was safeguarding himself because he was “jumped by numerous people who tried to steal my possessions and cause bodily harm to me.”

A second-degree attempted murder allegation in the state of Florida bears a maximum 15-year prison sentence and up to a ten thousand dollar fine in the case of a conviction.

Brown has encountered several legal problems over the time. He before had been charged of physical attack of a vehicle employee, several family violence charges, failure to pay parental support and other occurrences.

In a 2021 season match with the Buccaneers against the New York Jets, Brown took off his jersey, shoulder pads and accessories and left the arena, resulting in his termination by the team and effectively ending his NFL career.

Brown, who had 12 years in the NFL, was an top-tier wide receiver who passed the bulk of his tenure with the Steelers. Throughout his professional life, Brown had over 900 receptions for more than twelve thousand two hundred ninety-one yards, the 28th most of record. He was a 7-time Pro Bowl selection.