Quadruple amputee pro cornhole player charged with murder in Md. shooting

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Quadruple amputee pro cornhole player charged with murder in Md. shooting

Thomas Robertson | [e-mail]
March 23, 2026, 3:32 PM

A Maryland man who defied the odds, becoming a professional cornhole player as a quadruple amputee, is now accused of defying the law by shooting and killing a man Sunday in La Plata and then fleeing to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dayton James Webber, 27, is facing charges of first- and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells.

Webber has won the Maryland State Championship in cornhole, competed in the American Cornhole League and had nationally televised matches on ESPN. The network even profiled Webber in an episode of “SC Featured.”

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Thomas Robertson
Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.
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[The Blue Flower]

1. This makes no sense

Professional cornhole? How does he throw the beanbags--with his mouth? How did he handle a firearm?

[UpInArms]

2. How does that even make sense?

wtf?

ETA

(From when he was 12 years old)

Dayton scoots around pretty quickly on his leg stumps, which are protected with rubber liners containing a gel when he's competing or practicing. Dayton uses the same technique to recover fumbles as a nose guard for his youth football team. He drives his beloved go-kart with prosthetic legs and steers with special gloves made with Velcro and that same gel.

But it's on the wrestling mat where Dayton really shines.

"I like wrestling better than any other sport," he explained as a smile spread across his impish face that's topped by a blond buzzcut. "I like using my strength and being fit. And I don't have to rely on other people to do stuff for me like you do in football. Sometimes when I watch my teammates in certain situations I wish I had hands, but I just try to do things my own way."

Indeed, Mike and Natalie Webber, a homemaker, treat Dayton just like his brothers, Tyler, 17, and Justin, 6. They push a chair in front of the kitchen sink in their Charlotte Hall, Md., home so Dayton can climb up to wash the dishes.

"I'm human like everyone else," said Dayton, who wants to be a priest or a Secret Service agent someday. "I get in the same trouble at home. I have the same rules.''

Dayton can deftly unscrew and replace the cap on a sports-drink bottle. And the rising seventh grader writes neatly in print and cursive with the scarred stumps of his arms.

https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=5346206

[usonian]

3. Does this mean that Richard Kimble has finally found the no-armed man? (who, by the way is/was armed.)

Meaning no disrespect. This is very outside any known box.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Yet another quadruple amputee pro cornhole player story?