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Ex- National Football League player Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to confront an attempted murder allegation connected with a incident that happened in May, with his counsel submitting a not guilty declaration on his behalf.

Detention records in Essex County, New Jersey, show that Brown was discharged on Tuesday early for his relocation to Florida. Brown, among the most famous players in the National Football League, had relinquished transfer to Florida from New Jersey, where he was taken after being taken into custody in Dubai.

Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said in an communication that he has previously lodged a formal not guilty response to the murder attempt charge. Brown could be in a Miami courtroom as soon as Wednesday early for a bond hearing, Eiglarsh said.

According to his arrest document, Brown is charged of seizing a pistol from a protection staffer after a public figure boxing bout in May and shooting multiple bullets at a person he had clashed with earlier. The claimed target, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told authorities that one shot scraped his neck.

Eiglarsh said that Brown was only defending himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was obliged to take were exclusively in defense against the claimed victim’s aggressive conduct. Brown was attacked that evening and behaved within his lawful privilege to defend himself,” Eiglarsh commented.

Brown was not right away arrested because initially authorities did not recognize Nantambu as a victim. It not until later in May that Nantambu gave a full testimony about the event to authorities and pointed out Brown as the perpetrator, the document says.

From his social media posts, Brown had been staying in the city of Dubai for a number of period. In a post after the altercation, Brown claimed he was defending himself because he was “assaulted by numerous individuals who sought to steal my jewelry and inflict physical harm to me.”

A level two murder attempt charge in the state of Florida imposes a highest fifteen-year prison sentence and up to a $10,000 penalty in the instance of a finding.

Brown has encountered several legal problems over the time. He previously had been charged of physical attack of a vehicle driver, several family violence accusations, neglect to pay family payments and further occurrences.

Throughout a recent match with the Buccaneers against the Jets, Brown removed his shirt, shoulder pads and accessories and ran off the arena, leading to his dismissal by the franchise and virtually concluding his football tenure.

Brown, who had twelve years in the National Football League, was an top-tier player who devoted most of his time with the Steelers. During his professional life, Brown had nine hundred twenty-eight catches for more than twelve thousand two hundred ninety-one distance, the 28th most of history. He was a seven-time Pro Bowl choice.