A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder

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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. 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. Charles County Sheriff’s Office hide caption toggle caption Charles County Sheriff’s Office NPR has reached out to Webber's attorney, as well as the Albemarle County court and the Charles County State's Attorney, for comment but did not hear back in time for publication.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Webber was arrested at a local hospital, where authorities said he was "seeking treatment for a medical issue." He was charged as a fugitive from justice, and public records show he was booked into the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail on Monday.
The sheriff's office says Webber is awaiting extradition back to Maryland, where he will be charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and "other related charges."
Jail superintendent Col. Martin Kumer told NPR in an email that the court "did not address extradition" at its Tuesday morning hearing. He said Webber's next scheduled court date is "sometime in April," though his attorney could potentially ask for one even sooner.
Dayton Webber was booked into a Virginia jail on Monday.
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NPR has reached out to Webber's attorney, as well as the Albemarle County court and the Charles County State's Attorney, for comment but did not hear back in time for publication.
Authorities say the murder investigation is ongoing, and are asking anyone with relevant information to call or submit tips online.
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.
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Webber said at the time that it was his favorite sport, adding, "I like using my strength and being fit."
"Sometimes when I watch my teammates in certain situations I wish I had hands, but I just try to do things my own way," added the rising seventh grader, who said he wanted to be a priest or a Secret Service agent one day.
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."
In the piece, Webber said he started playing cornhole — the lawn game in which players throw bean bags at a target on a sloped wooden board — in the backyard with friends, then weekly at his local American Legion.
"I loved it so much, I never missed a Friday," he wrote.
Webber was crowned Maryland's best cornhole player
in 2020
. He explained
in the piece he wrote for
Today
that he doesn't wear his prosthetics in competition because they don't allow the same level of sensitivity or control, and has adapted his technique to throw

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### Areas for Consideration
- Interview highlights Inside the world of professional cornhole, and what it takes to be a player Webber was arrested at a local hospital, where authorities said he was "seeking treatment for a medical issue." He was charged as a fugitive from justice, and public records show he was booked into the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail on Monday.

### Implications
- The sheriff's office says Webber is awaiting extradition back to Maryland, where he will be charged with first-degree murder, second-degree murder and "other related charges." Jail superintendent Col.
- He said Webber's next scheduled court date is "sometime in April," though his attorney could potentially ask for one even sooner.

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