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Ex- National Football League wide receiver Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to face an attempted murder accusation stemming from a gunfire that happened in May, with his lawyer entering a not guilty response on his behalf.

Detention logs in Essex County, New Jersey, show that Brown was discharged on Tuesday early for his transfer to the state of Florida. Brown, among the most famous athletes in the NFL, had relinquished extradition to Florida from New Jersey, where he was detained after being apprehended in Dubai.

Brown’s counsel, Mark Eiglarsh, stated in an email that he has already submitted a formal not guilty response to the murder attempt charge. Brown could be in a Miami court as soon as Wednesday early for a bail proceeding, Eiglarsh added.

As per his arrest warrant, Brown is accused of seizing a handgun from a security employee after a celebrity fighting bout in May and firing multiple bullets at a person he had clashed with before. The claimed victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed police that a bullet scraped his throat.

Eiglarsh said that Brown was merely protecting himself from Nantambu.

“The actions he was compelled to take were exclusively in self-protection against the claimed individual’s violent actions. Brown was assaulted that night and behaved within his rightful entitlement to safeguard himself,” Eiglarsh said.

Brown was not immediately arrested because originally officers did not consider Nantambu as a affected party. It wasn’t until afterward in May that Nantambu gave a complete account about the incident to police and pointed out Brown as the shooter, the document states.

Based on his online updates, Brown had been residing in the city of Dubai for several weeks. In a message after the incident, Brown said he was protecting himself because he was “attacked by multiple people who sought to rob my jewelry and inflict physical harm to me.”

A level two attempted murder allegation in the state of Florida imposes a utmost fifteen-year incarceration sentence and up to a $10,000 fee in the case of a guilty verdict.

Brown has encountered several court issues over the years. He before had been charged of battery of a delivery operator, various abuse accusations, neglect to pay family payments and further events.

Throughout a 2021 season game with his team against the Jets, Brown took off his jersey, protective gear and gloves and left the arena, resulting in his release by the franchise and effectively halting his football tenure.

Brown, who had 12 years in the National Football League, was an top-tier player who passed the majority of his career with Pittsburgh. Throughout his professional life, Brown had 928 catches for more than 12,291 gains, the 28th most of record. He was a 7-time all-star selection.