MIAMI — Former NFL player Antonio Brown appeared virtually for an arraignment hearing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom on Monday to plead not guilty to an attempted second-degree murder charge.

Brown, 37, of Hollywood, is facing the charge after a May shooting at an underground boxing match in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

He was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Dubai in early October after state prosecutors believed he fled. He was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday after posting bond.

An arrest warrant states that Brown grabbed a gun from a security staffer after the May 16 boxing match at 221 NE 67th St. and fired two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim told investigators that one of the bullets grazed his neck.

Attorney Mark Eiglarsh said Brown was simply protecting himself from a person he had problems with before.

Brown did not speak during Monday’s hearing. The judge ended it by setting a status hearing for Dec. 22.

Antonio Brown appears virtually in Miami courtroom, pleads not guilty to attempted murder

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