Former Oakland Raiders lineman Barret Robbins was "just lost" when he was shot by police earlier this month, his estranged wife said in an interview with ESPN.

Robbins, who is bipolar and also has battled alcoholism, was wounded during a struggle with police in Miami. A detective was investigating a burglary call when the confrontation occured.

"In Miami … I don't even think he knew where he was. I don't think he even knew he was in Miami," Marisa Robbins told ESPN. "And he probably believed that someone was even intruding on him.

"From what I was told it was in-plain-clothes policemen, so he probably thought someone was encroaching on his home."

Robbins was charged with three counts of attempted felony murder for his role in the furious struggle.

"[He has a] strap across his chest. Both of his legs are in runners to keep him immobile, so he doesn't do any more damage to his spine," Marisa Robbins told ESPN. "Tubes, ventilator … Standing there looking at him, it doesn't look like he's gonna live."

Marisa Robbins also said she was not surprised by her estranged husband's actions in Miami "based on experiencing manic episodes with him" in the past.

"Just with the pattern I've seen with him and the behavior that I've seen him display in the past maybe 6 months … I've been dreading getting a phone call where something drastic like that's happened," she told ESPN.

Barret Robbins was wounded Saturday night after Miami Beach police found him inside a women's restroom in a building housing a pub, a gym and a jewelry store. The pub owner called police after Robbins forced his way inside the building and refused to leave, a police report said.

Robbins, 31, of Englewood, Colo., growled, snarled and "was heard laughing throughout the attack," the report said.

According to the report, Robbins beat Officer Colin Pfrogner to the floor, picked up Detective Mark Schoenfeld and slammed him into one wall and then another, then grabbed Detective Mike Muley by the face and rammed his head into a corner.

Robbins then grabbed Muley's forearms, and Muley shot Robbins twice in the torso, the report said. The former player dropped to his knees, grabbed his chest, snarled and growled again, swore at the officers and slapped Muley's gun out of his hand.

A charge of attempted felony murder can be filed when someone is injured during a felony. It carries a possible 30-year prison sentence. The three counts he faces cover the three officers involved in his arrest, said Ed Griffith, spokesman for the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office.

Robbins, who suffers from bipolar disorder and alcoholism, also was charged with two felony counts of attempting to deprive an officer of his weapon, two felony counts of resisting an officer with violence and misdemeanor trespassing. The felony counts carry possible five-year sentences.

Arraignment was set for Feb. 9.

Robbins is best remembered for missing team meetings the night before the 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego. He spent Super Bowl Sunday in a hospital and later acknowledged that he had stopped taking his medicine for depression and bipolar disorder.

Robbins was critically injured and remains in a Miami hospital jail unit, Griffith said. Muley received hospital treatment for a concussion.

Prosecutors listed Robbins at 6-foot-4 and 380 pounds. The Raiders listed him at 6-3, 315 pounds before his release from the team.

Robbins was arrested last month in San Francisco for hitting a security guard at a nightclub. He was cut by the Raiders last July after testing positive for steroids.

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