https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5759259/cornhole-amputee-dayton-webber-murder-
A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder
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.
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.
Webber's path to pro cornhole
At 10 months old, Webber was diagnosed with a bacterial infection, Streptococcus pneumoniae, that turned so aggressive he was given last rites.
"They had actually given me a 3% chance of living, and the only way that they were able to save me was by getting the infections out of my system," he said in a 2024 ESPN video. "They had to amputate my arms and legs to keep me alive."
That didn't stop Webber from pursuing and excelling at sports, including football and wrestling. In fact, ESPN profiled him in 2010, after the then-12-year-old finished fourth in his weight class in the Southern Maryland Junior Wrestling League.
Over the years, Webber learned how to write, fish and hunt. Videos on a YouTube account believed to belong to Webber show him firing guns using his upper arms. He wrote in a 2023 Today piece that he "even taught myself how to drive by racing go-karts."
Webber was crowned Maryland's best cornhole player in 2020.
@vivify saidHe'll be acquitted. The jury will reckon he's 'h'armless.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/nx-s1-5759259/cornhole-amputee-dayton-webber-murder-A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder
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 ...[text shortened]... o drive by racing go-karts."
Webber was crowned Maryland's best cornhole player in 2020.