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Former National Football League star Antonio Brown is heading to Miami to face an attempted murder accusation connected with a shooting that happened in May, as his attorney filing a innocent response on his behalf.

Detention records in Essex, New Jersey, show that Brown was discharged on Tuesday early for his move to the state of Florida. Brown, a highly popular figures in the NFL, had relinquished extradition to Florida from New Jersey, in which he was detained after being arrested in Dubai.

Brown’s attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, said in an message that he has already filed a written innocent plea to the attempted murder accusation. Brown could be in a Miami courtroom as early as Wednesday early for a release session, Eiglarsh added.

As per his apprehension document, Brown is alleged of grabbing a firearm from a safety employee after a celebrity boxing event in May and shooting two rounds at a individual he had clashed with earlier. The alleged target, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed authorities that one shot grazed his neck.

Eiglarsh asserted that Brown was merely protecting himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was obliged to take were purely in self-defense against the claimed individual’s hostile actions. Brown was assaulted that night and behaved within his lawful entitlement to safeguard himself,” Eiglarsh commented.

Brown was not promptly detained because initially officers did not recognize Nantambu as a target. It only later in May that Nantambu delivered a complete testimony about the situation to authorities and pointed out Brown as the shooter, the affidavit indicates.

From his online content, Brown had been residing in Dubai for a number of weeks. In a post after the incident, Brown claimed he was defending himself because he was “attacked by several persons who sought to rob my valuables and inflict personal injury to me.”

A second-degree murder attempt accusation in Florida bears a maximum fifteen-year jail term and up to a ten thousand dollar fine in the event of a guilty verdict.

Brown has encountered several judicial problems over the years. He earlier had been alleged of physical attack of a truck driver, various domestic violence allegations, failure to pay parental support and further incidents.

During a 2021 game with Tampa Bay against the Jets, Brown took off his jersey, protective gear and gloves and ran off the stadium, causing his release by the Buccaneers and virtually concluding his football journey.

Brown, who spent 12 years in the NFL, was an top-tier wide receiver who passed most of his time with his team. For his career, Brown had over 900 catches for more than 12,291 distance, the twenty-eighth most of all time. He was a seven-time all-star pick.