Amputee cornhole player accused of murder

Dayton Webber, 27, a professional cornhole player, is accused of fatally shooting 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells during an argument in La Plata, Maryland.

Police say Webber shot Wells inside a car, then drove off with the victim’s body before it was later found in a yard in Charlotte Hall.

Webber was arrested at a Virginia hospital and faces first- and second-degree murder charges as he awaits extradition to Charles County.

This might be one of the best posts evah on FR! Knowing the area I have plenty of thoughts and questions about this story.

From the article:

“LA PLATA, Md. - A professional cornhole player with no arms and legs has been accused of murder in La Plata.

What we know:
Dayton James Webber, 27, of La Plata is accused of shooting and killing Bradrick Michael Wells, 27, of Waldorf during an argument. “ skip>>>

What we don’t know:
Police have not explained how Webber, a quadruple amputee, was able to drive a car or fire a weapon.”

The “what we don’t know” is the big mystery of course, but we’re talking LaPlata MD, so nothing can be ruled out. If the residency of the two men were reversed I might suspect this was a mercy killing, with the victim begging to be put out of his misery. But in this case it was probably an argument over which drive through liquor store to get booze at. But that puts us back to “what we don’t know”. How could a quadruple amputee drink and drive? (To pass a Charles County driver’s license test you have to be able to open up a Budweiser with one hand while making an illegal U-turn.)

This is definitely a celebrity scandal in LaPlata. Cornholing is bigger than NASCAR there.

Some people that do not know the area might even go as far and say this event is so strange it had to involve space aliens. But those of us familiar with the area know that no space alien would set foot there; it’s almost too much for a Florida Man.

I know it’s cruel, but even if found guilty, Webber should not be sent to prison; just confine him to LaPlata for life.

As a 6 or 7 year old (about 1960) I began helping my dad and neighboring farmers when they decided to have the ear corn in their corn cribs shelled out. There was a guy that had an ear corn sheller, who worked our area.

While aluminum corn shovels were becoming popular, steel shovels were still in the majority. Small kids like myself would climb up above the crossmembers and kick ear corn ‘downhill’ to help what little we could.

Those farms all had dogs and cats that would do their part year round to try to hold the rat and mice numbers down. Rats lived under those corn cribs, and chewed many an ear corn sized hole in those raised wooden floors. A common patch was a steel lid from a soup can.

That’s what I always think of when someone speaks of a corn hole or I see someone playing that game.

But from the founding of this nation, until the late 1960s wooden corn cribs were the means to store ear corn. By then combines had all but taken over corn harvest, and steel grain bins were replacing the wooden corn cribs.

It was a carnal connotation in my youth 60 years ago

Corn much less ear corn wasn’t common in Mississippi then as a big crop

Cotton was still king and beans second

Man the Midwest is super corn country

I drive thru it every couple weeks

From southern Indiana to Battle Creek it’s like a carpet

Some of the corn cribs I helped empty were probably built before the great depression. Square nails, beams fastened with wooden pegs. Some rat holes were so big they were patched with paint can lids. Ear corn doesn’t flow very good. It can jam up and plug a hole over a foot in diameter.

When I was 18 my dad and I burned down a couple of old cribs. I walked through them first, reliving some memories. Those steel grain shovels were already heavy, without any grain in them, for a little kid.

When shoveling, you scooped at floor level. They wouldn’t penetrate the ear corn.

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