Quadruple Amputee And Cornhole Pro Accused Of Fatally Shooting Man While Driving

A noted master cornhole subordinate who is simply a quadruple amputee is down bars aft allegedly shooting and sidesplitting a beforehand spot rider while he was driving successful Maryland connected Sunday.

Dayton Webber, 27, was down nan instrumentality erstwhile he opened occurrence connected Bradrick Michael Wells during an statement arsenic they were walking successful a car successful nan municipality of La Plata, Maryland, Sunday night, nan Charles County Sheriff’s Office said successful a statement.

Webber, who lives successful La Plata, pulled complete and asked nan backseat passengers to thief propulsion Wells retired of nan car, but they refused, flagged down La Plata constabulary and reported nan shooting, nan sheriff's agency said.

Two hours later, nan assemblage of 27-year-old Wells, of Waldorf, Maryland, was recovered successful a residential gait successful Charlotte Hall, a organization astir 14 miles eastbound of La Plata, nan sheriff’s agency said.

At that point, nan sheriff's agency obtained an apprehension warrant for Webber based connected an allegation of murder, it said.

The Charles County nationalist defender’s office, arsenic good arsenic a lawyer who antecedently represented Webber successful abstracted cases successful which he pleaded blameworthy and sewage probation for driving connected a suspended licence and driving successful usurpation of a restricted license, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The sheriff's agency said Webber was recovered aft detectives tracked his car to Charlottesville, Virginia. It said he was astatine a infirmary seeking curen for an unspecified aesculapian rumor and was arrested by officers from nan Albemarle County Police Department erstwhile he was released.

The constabulary section said successful a connection that officers started looking for Webber erstwhile they learned he mightiness beryllium driving toward their jurisdiction successful Virginia.

An Albemarle County serviceman checked information video footage from an area state station, recognized a fishy and recovered Webber nearby, nan constabulary section said. He was taken into custody without incident.

Webber is awaiting extradition to Maryland, nan Charles County Sheriff's Office said, wherever he will beryllium charged pinch first- and second-degree execution and related charges.

Dayton Webber, 11, astatine nan Unique Sports Academy successful Waldorf, Md., successful 2010.Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Webber competes successful nan American Cornhole League, which called nan lawsuit "an highly superior matter."

"This is an highly superior matter, and our thoughts are pinch each those impacted, including nan family and loved ones of Bradrick Michael Wells," nan convention said successful a statement.

It added that it will not remark further for nan time-being and will supply updates "if and erstwhile it is due to do so."

Webber's YouTube channel, verified by NBC News, features videos of him shooting firearms. The titles for nan videos see nan words, "No hands nary feet shooting."

In a 2023 effort for TODAY.com, Webber said his arms and legs were amputated to prevention his life from a superior streptococcus pneumonia humor infection erstwhile he was 10 months old. He said doctors gave him a 3% chance of surviving.

That year, nan American Cornhole League called Webber “unstoppable” successful a video astir him. “He’s a sparkling illustration of our motto — anyone tin play, anyone tin win,” it said.

Growing up arsenic a quadruple amputee forced Webber to study to flooded limitations and thrive, and he yet taught himself really to write, title go-karts, and compete successful cornhole, he wrote.

Webber said cornhole taught him to return challenges arsenic they travel each day.