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Ex- NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is traveling to Miami to confront an attempted murder accusation related to a gunfire that occurred in May, as his attorney submitting a not guilty response on his behalf.

Correctional records in Essex County, New Jersey, show that Brown was discharged on Tuesday morning for his relocation to Florida. Brown, a highly popular athletes in the National Football League, had forgone transfer to Florida from New Jersey, where he was detained after being arrested in Dubai.

Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, mentioned in an communication that he has already filed a written innocent response to the attempted murder accusation. Brown could be in a Miami court as soon as Wednesday morning for a bail hearing, Eiglarsh stated.

As per his apprehension document, Brown is alleged of grabbing a firearm from a safety staffer after a celebrity boxing event in May and firing multiple rounds at a individual he had fought with before. The claimed victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed police that a bullet grazed his throat.

Eiglarsh said that Brown was simply protecting himself from Nantambu.

“The steps he was obliged to take were solely in self-protection against the reported individual’s violent conduct. Brown was assaulted that evening and behaved within his lawful privilege to safeguard himself,” Eiglarsh said.

Brown was not right away arrested because initially authorities did not recognize Nantambu as a affected party. It only later in May that Nantambu gave a full testimony about the incident to officers and pointed out Brown as the shooter, the affidavit says.

According to his online posts, Brown had been staying in the city of Dubai for multiple weeks. In a message after the altercation, Brown claimed he was safeguarding himself because he was “attacked by several people who attempted to take my jewelry and bring bodily damage to me.”

A second-degree attempted murder charge in the state of Florida carries a maximum fifteen-year prison term and up to a $10,000 fee in the instance of a finding.

Brown has faced several legal problems over the period. He earlier had been accused of physical attack of a delivery employee, multiple family violence allegations, inability to pay child support and additional events.

During a recent game with the Buccaneers against the New York Jets, Brown took off his uniform, shoulder pads and handwear and exited the field, resulting in his termination by the Buccaneers and effectively concluding his football tenure.

Brown, who completed twelve years in the National Football League, was an top-tier receiver who devoted the bulk of his career with the Steelers. For his career, Brown had 928 catches for above twelve thousand two hundred ninety-one distance, the twenty-eighth most of all time. He was a seven-time prestigious pick.