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Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is traveling to Miami to address an attempted murder accusation stemming from a shooting that happened in May, as his counsel submitting a not guilty declaration on his behalf.

Detention documents in Essex County, New Jersey, reveal that Brown was freed on Tuesday early for his move to the state of Florida. Brown, among the most famous players in the NFL, had relinquished transfer to Florida from New Jersey, where he was held after being arrested in Dubai.

Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, stated in an email that he has previously filed a formal innocent response to the murder attempt accusation. Brown could be in a Miami hearing as soon as Wednesday early for a bail proceeding, Eiglarsh said.

As per his arrest order, Brown is charged of grabbing a firearm from a protection guard after a star boxing contest in May and firing multiple shots at a person he had fought with previously. The reported target, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed authorities that a bullet touched his nape.

Eiglarsh asserted that Brown was only protecting himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was obliged to take were solely in self-defense against the claimed victim’s aggressive conduct. Brown was targeted that evening and behaved within his legal entitlement to defend himself,” Eiglarsh said.

Brown was not right away arrested because at first authorities did not recognize Nantambu as a victim. It only afterward in May that Nantambu provided a complete testimony about the incident to authorities and pointed out Brown as the perpetrator, the report indicates.

Based on his digital updates, Brown had been living in Dubai for several months. In a update after the confrontation, Brown stated he was safeguarding himself because he was “jumped by several people who tried to steal my possessions and cause personal damage to me.”

A second-degree murder attempt accusation in the state of Florida carries a utmost 15-year jail term and up to a $10,000 fee in the event of a conviction.

Brown has faced multiple legal problems over the period. He earlier had been charged of battery of a vehicle driver, various family violence accusations, inability to pay parental support and additional events.

Throughout a 2021 contest with Tampa Bay against the Jets, Brown stripped off his jersey, equipment and gloves and ran off the arena, causing his termination by the team and practically ending his football career.

Brown, who completed 12 years in the NFL, was an elite receiver who spent the majority of his career with Pittsburgh. For his professional life, Brown had nine hundred twenty-eight receptions for above twelve thousand two hundred ninety-one yards, the twenty-eighth highest of all time. He was a seven-time Pro Bowl pick.