The attorney for a Mobile teacher accused of shooting into an occupied vehicle says his client was acting in self-defense, according to filings in circuit court.

Kenishia J. Gilmore, a 25-year-old Science teacher at Scarborough Middle School, is charged with two counts of discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle, the charges stemming from an incident last Sunday which investigators now say started inside a local nightclub.

An altercation between Gilmore and at least three other people initiated at the club and then Gilmore followed the other parties in her vehicle to their residence on Old Shell Road, where she fired a several shots into their vehicle, according to police.

But Gilmore’s attorney, Marcus Foxx, says the alleged victims provoked Gilmore by ramming her vehicle first, apparently prompting Gilmore to then follow the victims to their residence and open fire.

Foxx showed pictures of the damage to Gilmore’s car during an initial court hearing this week, court records show.

Gilmore was booked into the Mobile Metro Jail on Tuesday and released Wednesday on $20,000 bond, with a court order to have no contact with the three alleged victims, identified in court documents as Avriana Hughes, Jermiracle Moore and Rylaija McMillian.

Gilmore was placed on administrative leave from her teaching position, according to Mobile County school officials.