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One-time NFL star Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to address an attempted murder allegation connected with a gunfire that happened in May, as his counsel entering a innocent plea on his behalf.

Correctional logs in Essex, New Jersey, indicate that Brown was discharged on Tuesday early for his transfer to Florida. Brown, among the most famous athletes in the NFL, had forgone transfer to Florida from New Jersey, where he was taken after being apprehended in Dubai.

Brown’s attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, mentioned in an communication that he has already filed a formal not guilty response to the murder attempt allegation. Brown could be in a Miami hearing as early as Wednesday morning for a bond session, Eiglarsh added.

Based on his arrest warrant, Brown is alleged of seizing a handgun from a protection guard after a star boxing event in May and discharging two rounds at a person he had clashed with previously. The reported individual, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, informed authorities that one of the bullets scraped his nape.

Eiglarsh asserted that Brown was only defending himself from Nantambu.

“The measures he was forced to take were exclusively in self-protection against the alleged person’s aggressive conduct. Brown was attacked that evening and acted within his rightful entitlement to defend himself,” Eiglarsh commented.

Brown was not right away arrested because initially officers did not identify Nantambu as a affected party. It only afterward in May that Nantambu provided a full testimony about the event to police and pointed out Brown as the perpetrator, the report states.

Based on his online 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 “attacked by several people who attempted to take my jewelry and inflict personal damage to me.”

A category two murder attempt allegation in the state of Florida bears a maximum fifteen-year jail penalty and up to a $10,000 fee in the case of a conviction.

Brown has dealt with numerous court issues over the time. He before had been accused of physical attack of a truck driver, multiple abuse charges, neglect to pay child support and other incidents.

In a recent game with the Buccaneers against the Jets, Brown took off his shirt, equipment and gloves and left the field, leading to his termination by the Buccaneers and practically halting his professional journey.

Brown, who spent twelve years in the National Football League, was an All-Pro receiver who passed the majority of his tenure with his team. Throughout his professional life, Brown had nine hundred twenty-eight catches for above 12,291 distance, the twenty-eighth greatest of record. He was a 7-time all-star selection.