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Ex- National Football League wide receiver Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to confront an murder attempt charge related to a gunfire that took place in May, with his counsel filing a innocent response on his behalf.

Jail records in Essex County, New Jersey, indicate that Brown was released on Tuesday morning for his move to Florida. Brown, one of the most popular athletes in the NFL, had relinquished extradition to Florida from New Jersey, in which he was taken after being apprehended in the city of Dubai.

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

Based on his detention warrant, Brown is charged of taking a firearm from a protection staffer after a public figure fighting contest in May and shooting multiple rounds at a individual he had clashed with previously. The reported individual, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told authorities that one of the bullets grazed his nape.

Eiglarsh said that Brown was simply safeguarding himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was forced to take were purely in self-defense against the claimed victim’s hostile behavior. Brown was assaulted that evening and acted within his legal right to defend himself,” Eiglarsh said.

Brown was not promptly apprehended because originally police did not consider Nantambu as a target. It only afterward in May that Nantambu provided a complete testimony about the event to police and identified Brown as the perpetrator, the affidavit indicates.

According to his social media content, Brown had been staying in Dubai for multiple months. In a post after the altercation, Brown stated he was defending himself because he was “jumped by several individuals who attempted to take my valuables and bring personal damage to me.”

A category two murder attempt accusation in Florida carries a utmost 15-year incarceration sentence and up to a $10,000 penalty in the instance of a finding.

Brown has encountered numerous court problems over the period. He before had been alleged of battery of a delivery employee, various family violence charges, failure to pay parental support and further occurrences.

Throughout a 2021 season contest with Tampa Bay against the New York Jets, Brown removed his shirt, shoulder pads and gloves and ran off the arena, resulting in his termination by the team and effectively halting his NFL tenure.

Brown, who completed a dozen years in the National Football League, was an elite player who devoted most of his career with his team. For his career, Brown had nine hundred twenty-eight catches for over 12,291 yards, the 28th most of history. He was a multiple-time all-star selection.