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One-time National Football League star Antonio Brown is heading to Miami to face an attempted murder allegation stemming from a shooting that happened in May, with his attorney submitting a not guilty declaration on his behalf.

Detention logs in Essex, New Jersey, reveal that Brown was freed on Tuesday early for his transfer to Florida. Brown, among the most famous athletes in the NFL, had forgone extradition 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 earlier filed a documented innocent response to the attempted murder accusation. Brown could be in a Miami courtroom as soon as Wednesday early for a bond session, Eiglarsh added.

As per his detention warrant, Brown is alleged of seizing a handgun from a security guard after a celebrity match contest in May and shooting a couple of rounds at a person he had fought with earlier. The alleged victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told police that a bullet grazed his nape.

Eiglarsh stated that Brown was simply safeguarding himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was forced to take were solely in self-defense against the reported person’s violent conduct. Brown was targeted that night and behaved within his rightful entitlement to safeguard himself,” Eiglarsh commented.

Brown was not promptly arrested because at first authorities did not recognize Nantambu as a target. It only later in May that Nantambu delivered a full statement about the incident to officers and named Brown as the perpetrator, the affidavit states.

According to his social media content, Brown had been staying in Dubai for multiple period. In a update after the confrontation, Brown claimed he was defending himself because he was “jumped by multiple people who tried to rob my jewelry and cause bodily damage to me.”

A second-degree murder attempt allegation in Florida bears a utmost fifteen-year jail term and up to a $10,000 fee in the instance of a conviction.

Brown has encountered multiple court challenges over the period. He previously had been alleged of physical attack of a truck operator, multiple family violence charges, neglect to pay family payments and further incidents.

During a recent contest with the Buccaneers against the Jets, Brown stripped off his shirt, shoulder pads and gloves and left the field, leading to his termination by the franchise and virtually ending his NFL career.

Brown, who completed twelve years in the league, was an elite player who passed the majority of his career with his team. For his professional life, Brown had nine hundred twenty-eight catches for over twelve thousand two hundred ninety-one gains, the twenty-eighth greatest of all time. He was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection.