Quadruple Amputee Athlete Accused Of Shooting Man Dead And Dumping His Body In The Yard Of A Home

A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee has been accused of murdering a man and dumping his assemblage successful a beforehand gait successful agrarian Maryland.

Dayton James Webber, 27, is simply a salient American Cornhole League subordinate and disablement authorities advocator who had often written and been interviewed astir his rocky travel to sporting excellence.

Having mislaid each parts of each 4 limbs to a terrible streptococcus infection astatine 10 months old, he was known for not utilizing prosthetic limbs connected nan tribunal moreover while holding his ain against non-disabled players.

Police successful Charles County successful confederate Maryland — astir 40 miles southbound of Washington, D.C. — said Webber will look a first grade execution complaint aft being arrested complete nan fatal shooting of 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells connected Sunday night.

"On March 22 astatine 10:25 p.m., officers pinch nan La Plata Police Department were flagged down by 2 group adjacent nan area of La Plata Road and Radio Station Road successful La Plata," said nan Charles County Sheriff's Office in a Facebook post Monday morning.

"A preliminary investigation revealed nan witnesses were successful nan backmost spot of a car erstwhile nan driver, Dayton James Webber, 27, of La Plata, changeable and killed nan beforehand spot rider during an argument.

"Webber pulled complete successful nan area of Radio Station Road and Llano Drive and asked nan passengers to thief propulsion nan unfortunate retired of nan car; however, nan witnesses refused, sewage retired of nan car, and near nan scene.

"Webber past fled pinch nan unfortunate still successful nan car. All occupants of nan car are known to each other."

Officers yet recovered Wells' assemblage successful a gait connected Newport Church Road successful Charlotte Hall, Maryland, earlier tracing Webber to a infirmary successful Virginia wherever he was arrested pending extradition to Charles County.

The Independent has asked constabulary astir nan circumstances of nan alleged murder, including if Webber is suspected of wearing prosthetics arsenic nan time.

When Dayton Webber contracted streptococcus pneumonia arsenic a baby, doctors were forced to amputate his hands, forearms, and astir of his legs successful bid to extremity nan infection from spreading, giving him only a 3 percent chance of survival.

Webber not only survived but became an accomplished athlete, taking pridefulness successful his expertise to do almost anything a non-disabled personification could do without nan usage of hands aliases feet.

"In galore ways, astonishing group has ever been portion of my life," Webber wrote successful a 2023 article. "People often underestimate maine erstwhile they spot maine — nary matter nan context."

In 2021 he was accepted arsenic a pro player successful nan American Cornhole League, becoming nan first quadruple amputee successful nan body's history.

Webber said he uses a hoverboard to navigate nan cornhole court, and that he doesn't for illustration to deterioration prosthetic limbs because they don't connection capable sensitivity and control.

Even extracurricular of master play, he said he only sometimes uses a wheelchair — employing an all-terrain exemplary pinch tank-like treads for outdoor expeditions specified arsenic sportfishing and hunting.

Webber besides had a YouTube channel, connected which he posted videos of him loading and firing a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and firing a historical muzzle-loading agelong gun, utilizing nan narrowest portion of his limb stump to propulsion nan trigger.

"Teaching myself really to do various tasks — specified arsenic writing, picking things disconnected nan level and moreover driving — helps maine pinch cornhole, too," Webber wrote backmost successful 2023. "I’ve had to accommodate my style to fresh what useful pinch my body," he wrote.

“[Disabled people] will decidedly astonishment you. If we opportunity we tin do it, we tin do it.”

Asked by The Independent if he was suspected of utilizing a prosthetic limb during nan alleged murder, a sheriff's agency spokesperson declined to comment.

However, she said: "If you person immoderate mobility astir his abilities aliases capabilities, Google hunt him, and you will spot galore videos of him showing his abilities."

The sheriff's agency asked anyone pinch accusation astir Sunday's sidesplitting to telephone Detective R. Johnson astatine 301-609-6453, aliases taxable a extremity anonymously astatine 1-866-411-TIPS.