April 1, 2026
Quadruple Amputee, Professional Cornhole Champ Claims Self Defense In Fatal Shooting
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RSS Feed 27-year-old Dayton Webber had his first court appearance after police say he shot and killed his friend and passenger while driving. Webber’s attorney says his client was terrified and had no choice “but to act immediately in defense of his life.” The judge denied bail to Webber and set his next hearing date for next month.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, April first, and the headlines were shocking. A quadruple amputee who's also a professional corn hole player was charged with first degree murder, accused of shooting and killing a guy while the amputee was also driving a car. Now we're hearing from that quadruple amputee who's saying, yeah, I shot and killed a guy, and he's saying it was self defense. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy. And TJ wrote this story. It was pretty incredible to hear the initial headlines and now to hear yep, I did it, and I did it to save my own life.
00:00:40
Speaker 3: Yes, and it was that dramatic. Look, there were a lot of questions and I still have quite a few after this murder happened, and this just happened last week. We're talking March twenty second, where yes, he is accused of shooting and killing his passenger who was right next to him, twenty seven year old Bradrick Wells, twice in the head while he was driving. And here's the deal. He had two passengers in the back seat witnessing the whole thing. So yes, there are a lot of questions as to how he did it, and then of course why he did it. And now we're hearing that his attorney very dramatically said, the truth here is that he would have been a murder victim if he had not acted immediately in defense of his life. That is a direct quote from Dayton Webber's attorney today.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the he we're talking about, is Dayton Webber.
00:01:35
Speaker 2: This is someone who has gained a bit of fame for what he has accomplished quite frankly, frankly, a quadruple amputeue. This is something a condition when he was a child. Actually, so he's grown up like this and has grown up without limbs, no legs, no arms, but he's been able robes to find a way to be not just competitive, but to make a living playing corn hole of all things. If you see the video is the way he's able to clasp those bags and toss them and was competitive. Quite frankly, it was impressive to see all that he has been able to do. Take it a step farther that he can drive a card and he can apparently shoot and kill a guy. And we still have a lot of questions about how it happened, but it was interesting to hear now that he is back in Maryland to hear this case, that he has been extradited back, that he is putting up a defense robes. And I wasn't expecting necessarily this because the shooting and the details around it sounded like a guy who in the moment wasn't thinking self defense. And I got witnesses to back me up. He sounded like a guy in the moment, as we describe the incident, like a guy who was trying to get away with them.
00:02:43
Speaker 3: Yes. Absolutely, And according to the two folks who were in the back seat who he picked up from work, they reported to police that once he shot his friend, the person sitting next to him twice in the head, he then pulled over and asked for these two folks in the back seat to help him get rid of the body. Dump the body. I mean, look, he has limitations physically, obviously he's done incredibly well to overcome them in so many ways. But yeah, he needed help, he said so. The two people in the back seat told police that they immediately refused, jumped out of the car, literally took off, and were able to ultimately flag down a police officer. Meantime, Dayton Weber reportedly some just yet somehow pushed the body out in the middle of the yard. They had a report of a body found in a yard not that far away from where the other two were able to get out. But yet he traveled some hundred and something miles to Virginia, where he was captured and then extradited. And now we are hearing from his attorney that, yeah, he had no other choice. Now we did not hear that initially from the two people in the back seat who saw the whole thing happen.
00:03:56
Speaker 2: And prosecutors are saying, you said he was calling Virginia. She was a making argument that he fled. They don't want him to get bail. Right now, they've made the argument that they didn't.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: Granted he did not get bail. He is going to remain behind bars until further notice.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: And they've made the argument he's not a flight risk. You can make that argument. Sure could also make an argument that he's not a threat to anybody else in the community.
00:04:19
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the argument. They didn't fly.
00:04:20
Speaker 2: But Robes, I thought it was interesting that the prosecution actually brought up in court. Yeah, this isn't the first time we've seen some violence from this guy, and it's not the first time we've seen an incident between these two men, and describing a previous incident in which he shot a gun in that guy's direction. These two guys apparently knew each other, and he fired a gun at him previously, according to prosecutors. Now, so he's making an argument that this isn't just some one off, random thing. This guy maybe had it out for this one guy who's dead, but also just trying to display this wasn't a one off violent moment for him.
00:04:51
Speaker 3: Yes, and also of note, we also learned what it was that the two were arguing over, Babe. They were arguing over a gun. So according to what was entered into evidence, or at least was filed today in court, they claim that he got into an argument over a gun that a friend of the victim, and we should do we mention who the victim is. That's we should definitely hit twenty seven year old Bradrick Wells. So his friend, according to Weber, stole a gun from him, and Weber was upset that Wells was still friends with the thief. It was kind of like, you shouldn't be friends with somebody who stole something from me, and somehow him being upset with wells that he was still friends with a guy he claims stole a gun from him, that it escalated to the point where he shot him twice in the head while driving.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: En Robe it to look it's explained. I've seen some videos of Weber online. He's posted some videos of himself firing a gun. He's able to hold it, clasp a certain way and pull the trigger and fire. He has posted videos of him doing this, Robes. No matter how many times I see it, it's still hard for me to process, to understand, to picture how someone with no limbs is driving a car and able at the same time to shoot someone in the car next to him. And by the way, there were passengers who were obviously comfortable willing to ride with him, and he's driven them around before. That's fine, but Robe, that's just it's still kind of hard to get your head around how he was able to do this.
00:06:33
Speaker 3: I still can't envision it. And look, the prosecutors, as you mentioned, described Weber as someone who had anger issues who had been violent before. But what we heard from the defense attorney, he actually came out and talked to reporters once the hearing was over and described Weber in the moment as terrified. So what the defense is already starting to lay a foundation for flies in the face of what the prosecution is setting up. That's not that unusual, but I thought this was interesting. His attorney went on to say that, yes, Weber did act in self defense, so they've already laid out to the defense, but said that he anticipates quote a lengthy trial to prove it. So they are gearing up, they're setting expectations, and it looks like we're in for a long haul in terms of what may play out in court. At least that's what his defense attorney is saying right now.
00:07:28
Speaker 2: I mean how I was going to play out in court. I mean, this is his first appearance in court. He was extradited back to Maryland where he's facing charges. But on day one, the first legal proceeding at all, and he's already talking about and looking forward to trial. I don't know what that strategy is, or maybe they think they have a great case, but we know there are two witnesses. They must feel pretty strongly about these two witnesses and what they saw. But from what the story the way it goes ropes, it doesn't sound like these two witnesses necessarily No, they wanted to get out, They didn't want any part of this.
00:08:00
Speaker 3: Yes, so at least the scene that was described initially from the two witnesses and then what police told rapport is when he was captured. It is nothing like what the defense is now trying to say happened in terms of some terrifying scene where Weber felt terrified for his life. If that were the case, I would imagine the two people in the back seat would have perhaps potentially acted differently. So this is not going to be You know, so many times we cover cases and trials ultimately were the only people who know what happened are the person on the trial on trial and the person who is, for lack of a better way to put it, you know, dead, not there to defend himself. More to give a different version of events, in this situation, you have two eye witnesses in the seat, not one, but two the.
00:08:51
Speaker 1: Case is it not?
00:08:53
Speaker 2: Isn't the case in the back seat of that car? I mean, how are you going to say is self defense when two people they would have to say the same thing. Would they not you have to feel pretty good that those two people saw it the way your clients saw it. I don't know how you can say self defense unless you know those two people in the backseat saw it that way. I don't know how else to. I don't know how you get around that. Well, this is just his first court appearance. We do expect him in court again. We'll explain that and also explaining to you just how big of a star he had become.
00:09:29
Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are following up on a bombshell of a case that we first brought to you last week. Now we are hearing from the quadruple amputee professional corn hole player, twenty seven year old Dayton Weber. He had a day in court today. He's been extradited back to Maryland after police say, and he's frankly admitted to by what we're hearing from his defense attorney, to shooting a man who was sitting next to him as he was driving because they got into a heated argument. His lawyer now saying it was self defense. He was scared for his life. He had no other choice except for to shoot this man next to him Otherwise he himself would have been the murder victim. So yes, we are hearing apparently Dayton Weber is claiming it was self defense. But we are going to hear a lot more from Weber next month. He has a preliminary hearing on May six, because today, even though he went in and he was denied bond or denied bail, he didn't actually technically enter a plea. However, as we pointed out, his attorney made it very clear where they're headed.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't say anything else. You had two people in the car. You couldn't say I didn't shoot him, obviously, So this is your only option for a defense, isn't it.
00:10:45
Speaker 1: This was the only child.
00:10:45
Speaker 3: I would think that that would be the only possible way, And that's why I was kind of thinking, well, with the eyewitnesses, that they have the forensics. I'm sure that they have the fact that he fled and they had to go find him. They were able to track his vehicle and then extra at him. I'm thinking to myself, the only thing he can do at this point is figure out some sort of plea deal. But I get it, like, obviously everyone thinks they've got a shot and he certainly does. And we don't know what the two passengers are going to say. We only know what police told us their account was. We haven't heard directly from them, and clearly we won't until trial. And so yes, it would seem that the defense wouldn't even feel comfortable going forward with this and be so bold as to tell reporters what your defense is if you didn't feel like you might get some sort of corroboration from the folks in the back seat.
00:11:36
Speaker 2: You get corroboration from the back seat, What do you get from the jury in a case like this? What do you get? How do you look at someone? I mean, it's just hard to get your head around, and prosecute is going to have to explain how he did this, how he was able to do this. But he has served, he has been featured on ESPN before, he's made morning show rounds, and we talked about this previously where odes. It is really impressive and incredible for him to show that it doesn't matter what your physical limitations may be, that you can still do so much. I mean, it's inspirational to see you're not proud and saying way to go, you're able to shoot and Gill somebody as well. But Rove just everything here. It's a weird thing to be impressed, even in this effort. And no, we don't want him to be able to kill anybody, but Rove, what an inspiration even at teacher's twenty seven.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: He's a very young man.
00:12:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's been an inspiration since he was eleven years old. I believe that was the first time he was featured by some local television news outlet because he was a savant, he was a star athlete, he was a wrestler, and he ultimately gravitated towards cornhole. But look, I think that's that takes skill, that takes precision, and those of us who have two arms and two leggs, I can tell you I something like that, and I can't even get my head around how he's able to do what he's done.
00:13:04
Speaker 1: Now.
00:13:04
Speaker 3: You pointed out he lost his limbs at ten months old, so this is all he's known. He had a blood disorder, a blood disease where if they didn't amputate, he wouldn't have been able to survive. So this was his only chance at living, and frankly, he wasn't even given much of that so for him to just overcome, survive and now to also be someone to look up to, some athletic savan who was able to go up against folks who had no limitations and still be He was named the best cornhole player in the entire state of Maryland. So he was the real deal. It's so sad to see someone who was able to do so much with so little and find himself in the position he's in right now.
00:13:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we again, we don't know how this is going to work out. We need to hear the full story. But up until March twenty second, when this incident occurred, he absolutely was someone who should be celebrated and maybe down the road he will continue to be. But as of now he is facing he has some charges were added right, I know, he's facing first degree murder, but several other chargers were added and announced today at least, So this is one we will keep a close close eye on. Wasn't expecting this update necessarily, but this one will keep an eye on. Dayton Weber is the name, but we always appreciate you spending some time here with us.
00:14:22
Speaker 1: From adearemmy robot, I'm TJ. Holmes. Talks soon
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks.
00:00:02
Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, April first, and the headlines were shocking. A quadruple amputee who's also a professional corn hole player was charged with first degree murder, accused of shooting and killing a guy while the amputee was also driving a car. Now we're hearing from that quadruple amputee who's saying, yeah, I shot and killed a guy, and he's saying it was self defense. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy. And TJ wrote this story. It was pretty incredible to hear the initial headlines and now to hear yep, I did it, and I did it to save my own life.
00:00:40
Speaker 3: Yes, and it was that dramatic. Look, there were a lot of questions and I still have quite a few after this murder happened, and this just happened last week. We're talking March twenty second, where yes, he is accused of shooting and killing his passenger who was right next to him, twenty seven year old Bradrick Wells, twice in the head while he was driving. And here's the deal. He had two passengers in the back seat witnessing the whole thing. So yes, there are a lot of questions as to how he did it, and then of course why he did it. And now we're hearing that his attorney very dramatically said, the truth here is that he would have been a murder victim if he had not acted immediately in defense of his life. That is a direct quote from Dayton Webber's attorney today.
00:01:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the he we're talking about, is Dayton Webber.
00:01:35
Speaker 2: This is someone who has gained a bit of fame for what he has accomplished quite frankly, frankly, a quadruple amputeue. This is something a condition when he was a child. Actually, so he's grown up like this and has grown up without limbs, no legs, no arms, but he's been able robes to find a way to be not just competitive, but to make a living playing corn hole of all things. If you see the video is the way he's able to clasp those bags and toss them and was competitive. Quite frankly, it was impressive to see all that he has been able to do. Take it a step farther that he can drive a card and he can apparently shoot and kill a guy. And we still have a lot of questions about how it happened, but it was interesting to hear now that he is back in Maryland to hear this case, that he has been extradited back, that he is putting up a defense robes. And I wasn't expecting necessarily this because the shooting and the details around it sounded like a guy who in the moment wasn't thinking self defense. And I got witnesses to back me up. He sounded like a guy in the moment, as we describe the incident, like a guy who was trying to get away with them.
00:02:43
Speaker 3: Yes. Absolutely, And according to the two folks who were in the back seat who he picked up from work, they reported to police that once he shot his friend, the person sitting next to him twice in the head, he then pulled over and asked for these two folks in the back seat to help him get rid of the body. Dump the body. I mean, look, he has limitations physically, obviously he's done incredibly well to overcome them in so many ways. But yeah, he needed help, he said so. The two people in the back seat told police that they immediately refused, jumped out of the car, literally took off, and were able to ultimately flag down a police officer. Meantime, Dayton Weber reportedly some just yet somehow pushed the body out in the middle of the yard. They had a report of a body found in a yard not that far away from where the other two were able to get out. But yet he traveled some hundred and something miles to Virginia, where he was captured and then extradited. And now we are hearing from his attorney that, yeah, he had no other choice. Now we did not hear that initially from the two people in the back seat who saw the whole thing happen.
00:03:56
Speaker 2: And prosecutors are saying, you said he was calling Virginia. She was a making argument that he fled. They don't want him to get bail. Right now, they've made the argument that they didn't.
00:04:06
Speaker 3: Granted he did not get bail. He is going to remain behind bars until further notice.
00:04:11
Speaker 2: And they've made the argument he's not a flight risk. You can make that argument. Sure could also make an argument that he's not a threat to anybody else in the community.
00:04:19
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the argument. They didn't fly.
00:04:20
Speaker 2: But Robes, I thought it was interesting that the prosecution actually brought up in court. Yeah, this isn't the first time we've seen some violence from this guy, and it's not the first time we've seen an incident between these two men, and describing a previous incident in which he shot a gun in that guy's direction. These two guys apparently knew each other, and he fired a gun at him previously, according to prosecutors. Now, so he's making an argument that this isn't just some one off, random thing. This guy maybe had it out for this one guy who's dead, but also just trying to display this wasn't a one off violent moment for him.
00:04:51
Speaker 3: Yes, and also of note, we also learned what it was that the two were arguing over, Babe. They were arguing over a gun. So according to what was entered into evidence, or at least was filed today in court, they claim that he got into an argument over a gun that a friend of the victim, and we should do we mention who the victim is. That's we should definitely hit twenty seven year old Bradrick Wells. So his friend, according to Weber, stole a gun from him, and Weber was upset that Wells was still friends with the thief. It was kind of like, you shouldn't be friends with somebody who stole something from me, and somehow him being upset with wells that he was still friends with a guy he claims stole a gun from him, that it escalated to the point where he shot him twice in the head while driving.
00:05:48
Speaker 2: En Robe it to look it's explained. I've seen some videos of Weber online. He's posted some videos of himself firing a gun. He's able to hold it, clasp a certain way and pull the trigger and fire. He has posted videos of him doing this, Robes. No matter how many times I see it, it's still hard for me to process, to understand, to picture how someone with no limbs is driving a car and able at the same time to shoot someone in the car next to him. And by the way, there were passengers who were obviously comfortable willing to ride with him, and he's driven them around before. That's fine, but Robe, that's just it's still kind of hard to get your head around how he was able to do this.
00:06:33
Speaker 3: I still can't envision it. And look, the prosecutors, as you mentioned, described Weber as someone who had anger issues who had been violent before. But what we heard from the defense attorney, he actually came out and talked to reporters once the hearing was over and described Weber in the moment as terrified. So what the defense is already starting to lay a foundation for flies in the face of what the prosecution is setting up. That's not that unusual, but I thought this was interesting. His attorney went on to say that, yes, Weber did act in self defense, so they've already laid out to the defense, but said that he anticipates quote a lengthy trial to prove it. So they are gearing up, they're setting expectations, and it looks like we're in for a long haul in terms of what may play out in court. At least that's what his defense attorney is saying right now.
00:07:28
Speaker 2: I mean how I was going to play out in court. I mean, this is his first appearance in court. He was extradited back to Maryland where he's facing charges. But on day one, the first legal proceeding at all, and he's already talking about and looking forward to trial. I don't know what that strategy is, or maybe they think they have a great case, but we know there are two witnesses. They must feel pretty strongly about these two witnesses and what they saw. But from what the story the way it goes ropes, it doesn't sound like these two witnesses necessarily No, they wanted to get out, They didn't want any part of this.
00:08:00
Speaker 3: Yes, so at least the scene that was described initially from the two witnesses and then what police told rapport is when he was captured. It is nothing like what the defense is now trying to say happened in terms of some terrifying scene where Weber felt terrified for his life. If that were the case, I would imagine the two people in the back seat would have perhaps potentially acted differently. So this is not going to be You know, so many times we cover cases and trials ultimately were the only people who know what happened are the person on the trial on trial and the person who is, for lack of a better way to put it, you know, dead, not there to defend himself. More to give a different version of events, in this situation, you have two eye witnesses in the seat, not one, but two the.
00:08:51
Speaker 1: Case is it not?
00:08:53
Speaker 2: Isn't the case in the back seat of that car? I mean, how are you going to say is self defense when two people they would have to say the same thing. Would they not you have to feel pretty good that those two people saw it the way your clients saw it. I don't know how you can say self defense unless you know those two people in the backseat saw it that way. I don't know how else to. I don't know how you get around that. Well, this is just his first court appearance. We do expect him in court again. We'll explain that and also explaining to you just how big of a star he had become.
00:09:29
Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are following up on a bombshell of a case that we first brought to you last week. Now we are hearing from the quadruple amputee professional corn hole player, twenty seven year old Dayton Weber. He had a day in court today. He's been extradited back to Maryland after police say, and he's frankly admitted to by what we're hearing from his defense attorney, to shooting a man who was sitting next to him as he was driving because they got into a heated argument. His lawyer now saying it was self defense. He was scared for his life. He had no other choice except for to shoot this man next to him Otherwise he himself would have been the murder victim. So yes, we are hearing apparently Dayton Weber is claiming it was self defense. But we are going to hear a lot more from Weber next month. He has a preliminary hearing on May six, because today, even though he went in and he was denied bond or denied bail, he didn't actually technically enter a plea. However, as we pointed out, his attorney made it very clear where they're headed.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't say anything else. You had two people in the car. You couldn't say I didn't shoot him, obviously, So this is your only option for a defense, isn't it.
00:10:45
Speaker 1: This was the only child.
00:10:45
Speaker 3: I would think that that would be the only possible way, And that's why I was kind of thinking, well, with the eyewitnesses, that they have the forensics. I'm sure that they have the fact that he fled and they had to go find him. They were able to track his vehicle and then extra at him. I'm thinking to myself, the only thing he can do at this point is figure out some sort of plea deal. But I get it, like, obviously everyone thinks they've got a shot and he certainly does. And we don't know what the two passengers are going to say. We only know what police told us their account was. We haven't heard directly from them, and clearly we won't until trial. And so yes, it would seem that the defense wouldn't even feel comfortable going forward with this and be so bold as to tell reporters what your defense is if you didn't feel like you might get some sort of corroboration from the folks in the back seat.
00:11:36
Speaker 2: You get corroboration from the back seat, What do you get from the jury in a case like this? What do you get? How do you look at someone? I mean, it's just hard to get your head around, and prosecute is going to have to explain how he did this, how he was able to do this. But he has served, he has been featured on ESPN before, he's made morning show rounds, and we talked about this previously where odes. It is really impressive and incredible for him to show that it doesn't matter what your physical limitations may be, that you can still do so much. I mean, it's inspirational to see you're not proud and saying way to go, you're able to shoot and Gill somebody as well. But Rove just everything here. It's a weird thing to be impressed, even in this effort. And no, we don't want him to be able to kill anybody, but Rove, what an inspiration even at teacher's twenty seven.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: He's a very young man.
00:12:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's been an inspiration since he was eleven years old. I believe that was the first time he was featured by some local television news outlet because he was a savant, he was a star athlete, he was a wrestler, and he ultimately gravitated towards cornhole. But look, I think that's that takes skill, that takes precision, and those of us who have two arms and two leggs, I can tell you I something like that, and I can't even get my head around how he's able to do what he's done.
00:13:04
Speaker 1: Now.
00:13:04
Speaker 3: You pointed out he lost his limbs at ten months old, so this is all he's known. He had a blood disorder, a blood disease where if they didn't amputate, he wouldn't have been able to survive. So this was his only chance at living, and frankly, he wasn't even given much of that so for him to just overcome, survive and now to also be someone to look up to, some athletic savan who was able to go up against folks who had no limitations and still be He was named the best cornhole player in the entire state of Maryland. So he was the real deal. It's so sad to see someone who was able to do so much with so little and find himself in the position he's in right now.
00:13:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we again, we don't know how this is going to work out. We need to hear the full story. But up until March twenty second, when this incident occurred, he absolutely was someone who should be celebrated and maybe down the road he will continue to be. But as of now he is facing he has some charges were added right, I know, he's facing first degree murder, but several other chargers were added and announced today at least, So this is one we will keep a close close eye on. Wasn't expecting this update necessarily, but this one will keep an eye on. Dayton Weber is the name, but we always appreciate you spending some time here with us.
00:14:22
Speaker 1: From adearemmy robot, I'm TJ. Holmes. Talks soon