A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder
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Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection. (Image credit: Kevin Sullivan)
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National A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder March 24, 2026 12:36 PM ET By Rachel Treisman Dayton Webber, then 18, pictured at a baseball game in 2016. In the years before his arrest, he shared his experience playing sports — and turning pro in one of them — as a quadruple amputee. Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Sullivan/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images A professional cornhole player who is a quadruple amputee has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting. Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of killing a man in the front seat of his car during an argument on Sunday in his hometown of La Plata, Md.— about 30 miles south of Washington, D.C. — according to the Charles County Sheriff's Office. National A mom wrote a kids' book on grief. She was just convicted of her husband's murder The sheriff's office said in a press release that passengers in the backseat saw Webber shoot Bradrick Michael Wells, also 27, before he pulled over and asked them "to help pull the victim out of the car." They refused and left, at which point Webber "fled with the victim still in the car." All of the passengers knew each other, authorities said. Nearly two hours later, a resident of Charlotte Hall, Md., about 14 miles away, called police to report "a body in a yard," the sheriff's office said. Responders identified Wells and pronounced him dead at the scene. Detectives found Webber's car over 100 miles away in Charlottesville, Va., and got a warrant for his arrest. They were helped in their search by Virginia's Albemarle County Police Department, which said in a separate statement that one of its officers spotted Webber's vehicle at a gas station and used surveillance footage to track him down. Interview highlights Inside the world of professional cornhole, and what it takes to be a player Webber was arrested at a local hospital, where authoritie...
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