US quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested on suspicion of murder

Dayton Webber at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, in 2016. Photograph: Kevin Sullivan/Orange County Register via Getty Images A Maryland man who made history as the first quadruple amputee to compete in the professional televised American Cornhole League has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and killing a passenger in his car during an argument. Dayton Webber – who became a champion cornhole player after losing his limbs and nearly dying from a bacterial infection in his infancy – faces murder charges in connection with the death of Bradrick Wells, authorities said on Monday.

According to a statement from investigators with the sheriff’s office of Charles county in suburban Baltimore, Webber was driving his car with Wells as his front-seat passenger at about 10. 25pm on Sunday when the pair began arguing in front of others who were in the vehicle. Webber, 27, then allegedly shot Wells to death, pulled over in the community of La Plata, and asked the other passengers to help him remove the dead man from the car, the sheriff’s office said.

The others refused, got out of the car and fled the scene while Webber drove away with the body of Wells, also 27, the agency added. Two people who purportedly saw the killing waved down police officers on patrol in that area and reported what had happened, setting off a search for Webber. A couple of hours later, a resident of nearby Charlotte Hall, Maryland, called investigators to report a body in a yard.

Investigators determined the body was that of Wells, and the Charles county sheriff’s office said its deputies obtained a warrant to arrest Webber. Authorities said they found Webber’s car in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 150 miles from where Wells’ body had been recovered. They reportedly tracked Webber down to a nearby hospital, where he had allegedly sought treatment for an unspecified medical issue.