A man who gained acclaim as a professional cornhole player despite having no arms or legs has been accused of fatally shooting an acquaintance during a dispute in a car.
The body was found dumped in a stranger’s yard, said the sheriff’s office in Maryland’s Charles County.
The shooting was reported by two people who flagged down a police car around 10:25 p.m. Sunday, March 22, in La Plata, Maryland. They said they had been in the back seat of a car when the driver, whom they identified as Dayton Webber, shot the front-seat passenger. When Webber pulled over and told them to remove the victim, they said, they got out and refused to help. He reportedly drove off with the other passenger.
Nearly two hours later, a resident called 911 to report a dead person in a yard 11 miles away. It was the passenger, Bradrick Michael Wells, 27, the sheriff’s report said. A warrant was obtained for Webber’s arrest.
Webber, 27, is a quadruple amputee; his forearms and lower legs were amputated when he suffered an infection as an infant, he said in a 2023 essay for the Today show’s website. He eschews prosthetics in American Cornhole League competitions, in which players throw beanbags through a hole. He told Today that he taught himself to drive, and a video titled “No Hands No Feet Shooting” on his YouTube channel shows him firing a 9-millimeter handgun.
After the discovery of Wells’ body, Webber’s car was spotted Monday morning 100 miles away, in Charlottesville, Va., and he was found seeking treatment for an undisclosed condition at a hospital, the sheriff’s office said. He was arrested and held for extradition to Maryland, where he faces charges including first-degree murder.
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