Former NFL star Antonio Brown is now being hit with an attempted murder charge for reportedly shooting a gun during a heated argument on the streets of Little Haiti in Miami on May 16. The alleged victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, says he was left fearing for his life not only in the heat of the moment. This, he said, was more than a violent act; it was a deliberate, chilling attempt to kill someone with whom he had been embroiled in a feud that spanned years.
According to surveillance and cellphone footage, Brown is seen punching Nantambu, grabbing a security guard's firearm, and discharging two rounds as he chases him. One of those bullets grazed Nantambu, but Nantambu has come forward to call out Brown as the shooter after watching the footage.
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"I thought he was going to kill me," Nantambu told investigators. The two men have had a stormy relationship since 2022. What began as a falling-out between friends escalated into a feud with lawsuits and allegations of theft and dishonesty. In a prior incident, Nantambu says, Brown wrongly accused him of stealing money while they were in Dubai, which temporarily resulted in his arrest. A U.S. court awarded Nantambu nearly $1 million in damages, but the decision was thrown out.
With this shooting, Nantambu says those are the stakes raised higher than he could have ever imagined. "He was a dead man, he thinks," he said, citing a Florida law that is known as "Stand Your Ground." "He's a gangster, and simultaneously he's the police," he says.
It's a chilling declaration conjures an image of a man who feels hunted, set up, and nearly silenced. Brown has since been released on a $10,000 bond, and his legal woes are hardly new. Brown has had a string of troubling allegations over the last few years, including a rape lawsuit settlement in 2021, an arrest for assault in 2020, and forging COVID-19 vaccine documents.
In 2024, he declared bankruptcy, just another element of what seems to be a downward spiral for the once-celebrated wide receiver. From Super Bowl highlights to courtroom headlines, Brown's name is now in the news for all the wrong reasons.
But for Nantambu, this is not only about the fall of a celebrity or media spectacle but survival. "I don't know if he just premeditated thought in his mind, like: 'Okay, I'm gonna say that he tried to take my chain and I'm gonna kill him and I don't have to pay him his judgment,'" he told The Daily Mail.
This is still under investigation. It is not simply a scuffle gone bad. This time, for Nantambu, it was a near-death experience at the hands of a man he once called his own, the one man he says has made one act too many.
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