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so two days ago, there was a fatal shooting that left a 27 year old young man dead. However, interestingly, the primary suspect was unarmed. All right, guys, so you might know what we're talking about based on the title and thumbnail, you might have figured out that riddle. But I do have to say this story has been dominating my social media for the last 36 hours. And I kept wavering. Like I was sending the clips and information to my producer. I was talking about it with Alex, and I was wavering because I did want to talk about it. I found it really interesting. But I obviously wanted to be respectful. Like, a young man died. This is a shooting, it is a murder case. But also the thing that everybody is talking about online is how insanely absurd the entire case is. And like, that is what I was drawn to. That's what everybody was drawn to. And so I basically spent the entirety of today trying to figure out what I wanted to talk about. But I just kept coming back to this. And then it finally hit me that I needed to reframe the way that I thought about things. I needed to take a new motto to heart. And that new motto is, what would Tim Dillon do? What would Tim Dillon do? And Tim Dillon in this situation, I think, well, he would tell the story. Even though this is something that we absolutely should not laugh at, he would tell the story. And then once we get through that absurdity and we talk about the Internet's reaction, then we can get down to brass tacks and see the root of the story, which is completely and utterly heartbreaking. So without further ado, here's what happened. And I'm going to try to say this With a straight face. This is going to be a true test for me and Max, my editor, to see if we can actually toe the line here. Max, I believe in you. I believe in myself. Guys, this is what happened. A quadruple amputee, US Quadruple cornhole champion is being accused of pulling out a gun and shooting his friend in the head twice while driving a car. I mean, guys, when I first came across this headline, I thought it was the Onion Babylon Bee. I genuinely thought that I was hallucinating. I was like, no, this obviously is not real. This isn't even possible. And so I scrolled on, but, oh my God, no, it is in fact possible. This right here is the man.
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Corn hole champion. The first ever quadruple amputee on the U.S. cornhole team, for that matter. Now, for years, this young man, and we will get to what is happening now, but for years, ever since this man was a little boy, he has been covered by the media, espn, the Today show, even the Washington Post for this incredible, inspirational story of the life saving amputations that he got, I think when he was 10 months old to save his life. His passion for wrestling when he was in middle school and the fact that he was this amazing wrestler even though he had no limbs. His passion, his unusual success in cornhole, his love of the outdoors, all of it was written about. This young man was on the trajectory to having some iconic sports movie made about him with Sandra Bullock playing his mother in about 10 years. And now, allegedly, his life has culminated in some sort of twisted tragedy that a South park might not even touch. I found this interesting in a piece that he wrote for the Today show. This was a few years ago. He concluded his op ed by saying this. He wrote, I want to encourage others to take chances and pursue their dreams. Again, this is like inspirational sports movie fodder. I've overcome difficulties and I think others can too. For much of my life, I have grappled with people underestimating me because of how I look. People assume I can't operate heavy equipment, for example, but I can. That's why I hope people give disabled people a chance. We will definitely surprise you if we say we can do it. We can do it. We've probably done it before. Yeah, okay. So needless to say, he definitely surprised us. And God will hopefully he has not done this before. Like Please say this has not happened before. Now, moving on from that context, this is what we know so far about the case at hand. What happened two days ago. Now, according to two witnesses, who are also his friend, Dayton Weber, that is Mr. Cornhole, Mr. Quadruple Amputee, he was driving and he picked these two witnesses up from, from work. And a 27 year old man named Bradrick Wells was already in the front seat driving with Dayton. Now, as Dayton is driving, I don't know where they're going, the police have not given us that information. But he and Wells, sitting in the front seat, get into an argument. He, meaning Mr. Cornhole, then pulls out a firearm, shoots Bradrick in the head twice. I think it is safe to assume that this young man was dead instantaneously. It's an absolutely horrific scene. Now, immediately following that, based on what the witnesses have said, he then pulled over and he told them, the two in the back seat to dump the body, pull the body out of the car, dump it, we're gonna move on. Because obviously he couldn't do that himself. Anyway, they refused, to their credit, so they got out, he zooms off, leaves them in the dust, and they immediately flag down the police. Now, we don't really know what happens in the immediate aftermath, but soon after that, sometime after, somebody in the area called the police because they had just found a dead body in their yard. Now, soon after that, the police who are now looking for Dayton, they know what his car looks like. They find him at a hospital getting treated for some kind of medical issue. We have no information on that. I think it's completely, it's just odd that he would have shot somebody, dumped the body and then gone to the hospital. I don't know if there was a wreck, if something happened, no idea if he was suffering from something, but he ended up being at the hospital and that is where they found him. They subsequently arrested him and now he is being charged with murder, first degree, second degree, first degree assault, a myriad of other things. And here is his mugshot. Now, I am no expert on true crime. I am not one of those women that finds entertainment and listening to bodies being dismembered and missing people's cases and podcasts, it's just like horrifying to me. But based on my limited, I would say that this doesn't really look like the most remorseful or upset young man. But here is Dayton. Dayton James Webber. That is his mugshot. So needless to say, and this is where I'm getting into treacherous territory when the News broke when people saw that headline that, again, read like, something from the Onion or the Babylon Bee. The Internet had the same reaction that I'm guessing you are probably having right now. But this case simply has no legs. It has no legs. I mean, just to rip off the band aid and just go ahead and start being offensive. Like, first of all, like, how. Like, the. How did they even handcuff him? Like, that's the first thing I thought of. Like, is there a protocol for this? Like, did they carry him out? I don't know. Like, that's besides the point, maybe. Or is it? Somebody asked that in the comment section and Colin Roog responded and said, talk to the police officer from spongebob.
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Just gonna leave that there. Anyway, it is simply one of the many questions that people online want answered. For example, Autism Capital responded to one of these headlines and wrote, so is anyone gonna ask the obvious question? We need to ask them. It's for justice. We need to know. Another person said, no fingerprints could be found at the scene of the. Somebody else said, who are the people in the backseat that let the guy with no arms and no legs drive? Wtf? Now, guys, this just gets even better, because in this just absolutely insane, unfathomable story, there just seems to be an answer for everything. It's like when you get to a point where, like, this could not have happened, people are like, oh, no, actually, it could, because obviously the car that this young man was driving was a Tesla. He was driving a Tesla. So obviously he had the ability to somehow. I don't even know how pull out a gun, but he. Hands free, you know, is what I'm trying to say. Now, other people online were immediately suspicious about the events because obviously, no arms. How could he have reached anywhere in the car to pull out a gun, let alone pull a trigger? And speaking of pulling the trigger, have you guys purchased your Balance of Nature yet? Now, Balance of Nature supplements make understanding and taking care of your health easy. And it all starts with phytonutrients, which are the naturally occurring plant nutrients that are found in whole foods that give them their color, taste, and smell. And when it comes to your diet and your supplements, the presence of these is a surefire sign that you are getting real phytonutrients. Now, Balance of Nature prioritizes all of this. They take whole foods, and they take them through a tailored cold vacuum process that stabilizes those nutrients. Then they are powdered and packed into little capsules that you can take with no binders. No fillers, no flow agents which is so rare in the supplement space. And their whole food system gives you access to 47 whole food ingredients and all of them contain those naturally occurring phytonutrients. Whole food phytonutrition plus Balance of nature truly lets you fight the good fight. So go to balance of nature.com today. Subscribe and start saving. Join hundreds of thousands of customers in one simple routine that is changing the world and changing health. And these supplements will surely help your brain as you get a degree from gcu. Now. A lot of people in the world today, especially with AI, say that higher education is outdated or irrelevant. Well, it's not when it is purpose driven education like at Grand Canyon University. Because GCU does not settle for the status quo, they shatter it with academically rigorous industry driven programs built to move at the speed of relevance with practical skills, career readiness and opportunity for every single student. Imagine that practicality in programs tailored for the real world, not just made up degrees like lesbian dancery that leave you under a mountain of debt with no job at the end of your degree. And that is what makes gc. And that is why I love working with them. With some 380 pathways including 153 degree programs, 180 emphases and 56 certificate programs, there is an option for every kind of student no matter where you are in your life or your educational journey. Plus GCU's vibrant campus was ranked in the top 20 best college campuses in the country by Niche.com for 2026. Recognized for excellence in both academics and campus life. But also you should know they also have online programs so you might miss out on their campus, but you can get your education at home. GC was grounded in Christian faith and they work to empower the next generation to lead with integrity, serve with purpose and help transform their commun and build a future that matters. So take action and find your purpose at gcu. It's private, it's Christian, it's affordable, and it's nonprofit. Visit gcu.edu to learn more Today.
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Wait. Back to the Internet reaction. Somebody else commented and said, your Honor, my client couldn't possibly have committed this crime because, well, no offense to my client, but just look at him. And a lot of people were making these jokes being like, oh my God, this is gonna be the easiest defense ever, like he has no arms. He could not have done it. But then the moment that the Internet started asking questions, the moment they started joking and speculating making O.J. simpson jokes, well, it turned out that everyone and their mother had a video of this man, Dayton Weber, shooting guns. They are all over the Internet. Just take a look. There you go officer. Case closed. Now the Internet was obviously flabbergasted because it was like whiplash. They went from being like, this could not be true. This is so unrealistic. This is not the guy to being like, oh my God, I've never seen this done before. This is insane. And apparently you also didn't have to look far for these types of videos because this young man was posting all of this on his own YouTube channel because again, he's this inspiration. He writes articles, he's publicly documented over his Entire life. He has a TikTok page, he has a YouTube channel where he posts himself doing all of this, accomplishing all of these amazing things that a quadruple amputee shouldn't be able to do, like shooting his friend in the head. I'm sorry, it must be said. Somebody commented and said, well, that answers my question about today's local news story. Another person said hello to the prosecutors watching this. Somebody else said, you, Honor, I retract my previous statement. I had no idea my client could do this. I said I was not gonna laug really trying hard to stick to that promise. But guys, that's also not all. Because if you were sitting here and you're still not convinced, you're like, brett, he's not that mobile. He was strapped into a car. Like, how would he have reached the gun like that? Armless cornholing would not give you the actual skill to be able to pull out a gun and murder somebody and dispose somebody in a moving vehicle. Like, that glove does not fit. It's not possible. Well, I have more videos because Dayton posted something else that might offer some clarity about what he was able to do. Guys, the caption of this video, no hands, no feet versus a 15 foot ladder. This would be really freaking impressive if he hadn't just murdered somebody. But now he has literally proven to the world that he is certainly capable of doing this. The top comment under that video when somebody posted it on X was, I bet the deer tell each other legends about this dude. Yeah, that is putting it mildly. Dayton did not just stop there. He even posted more. There are a myriad of other gun videos and he even explained how he could load and shoot a crossbow.
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I mean, again, it's pretty remarkable. He certainly is defying odds like he wrote about in his Today show article. Like, it's just. I don't even know. I was just like the entire time I was uncovering all of this and watching it unfold in real time, I was like, this cannot be happening. Like somebody commented and said, he built his own case against himself. Like, there's no case if this really, if you did it like you have the Ability to do this is now what you have proven to us. Somebody else commented and said, dude was probably shit face drunk too, on top of everything else. And I think this guy was probably joking, but honestly, he might have been. And this is really where we get to the underbelly of the story. Because amidst all of the inspirational and underdog sports stories, something else was going on in Dayton's life. In 2020, according to local Maryland news outlets, Dayton was arrested for drunk driving after he drove into a police cop car and drove through a building in Mechanicsville. Here are two headlines. Quadruple amputee arrested for drunk driving after crashing into a police car and building in Mechanicsville. Like, that headline, like any headline with him is just absolutely insane. Like, he ran into a cop car, he crashed into a cop car. Here are some of the pictures. This was the truck that he was driving at the time. Here he is maybe being arrested, talking to a cop. I still have not figured out how they cuffed him. Certainly do not know how he got into that truck. But anyway, that's just like beside the point. I need to stop honing in on that. But the thing is, when I found this story, which I didn't see anybody else talking about, like when I pulled up stories on mainstream media about this entire event, nobody else was talking about this. They didn't seem to find that. But when I pulled up his Maryland record, there was no sign of this incident, even though there were multiple articles about it at the time in local news. And so I'm pretty sure you guys can correct me if you find any other information, but I'm pretty sure that it was completely expunged. Now, he does have an underage alcohol charge from, let's see, 2017. He has multiple citations for driving with suspended licenses, all of which were before his dui. So there were multiple things that happened in his life. I don't know if those are on record or off record that resulted in him losing his license. And then he had this DUI in October and of 2020 and it poof, it's just gone away. There's no record of it. So what happened? Did he just get some kind of slap on the wrist? Was he let off because of who he is and this inspirational story? I have no idea. I saw this comment that somebody pulled on YouTube and they posted it on X and I hesitated reading it, but I did want to share. Now, based on the information I found, this person said, I went to high school with him and I knew him as a little asshole. He treated Everyone however he felt because he knew he could get away with it, given his condition, unsurprised that he killed someone. Now, obviously this is not verified and that last line is a very significant claim and that's really why I didn't want to read the comment. But I think the more relevant part is that treated everyone however he felt, because he knew he could get away with it. And stick with me here because this is even more relevant when we get to the part about the victim. But I read this comment and I was thinking, okay, like his dui, he was able just to get away with it. Like, he ran into a cop car, he ran into a building, and it's so swept under the rug that mainstream media is not even recording it in their stories about this, that I had to learn about it from a random commenter who lives in the area because no mainstream media outlet even found out about it. Like, it's just, it's weird, it's just interesting anyway. And of course there are people who will immediately jump on this story and talk about him and say, here's more evidence that we, we need to ban guns. Violence is happening. They're shooting everyone. But again, as I always say, and a lot of us say, this is not a gun problem. As I learn more about this young man and read his story, I think it's abundantly clear that this is a very angry and unstable and possibly disturbed individual with a long pattern, a literal pattern history record of substance abuse and unfortunately, devastatingly so. There is a lot of that in our culture, in our society today. And that is the problem that we should be addressing. First, why wouldn't our focus be on making our populace healthier and stronger versus taking away rights from people who are healthy and who are law abiding? That is my question. Or I guess the better thing to say is that is my response to the people who will inevitably respond with that sort of ban all guns sentiment. Now, I have spent this entire episode talking about Mr. Cornhole, because that's what the Internet is focused on. But I obviously do want to share my condolences to the family of Bradrick Michael Wells, because this is the young man that was shot. Now, according to somebody close to him who spoke to Fox, he was a car and motocross enthusiast and he was a new father to a young baby girl. A baby girl just lost her father. Now, in a separate interview, Bradwick's father spoke to the press, this article reads. Michael Wells, 64, said in an interview on Tuesday so earlier today that his son was closely acquainted with the accused shooter, dayton James Weber, 27, and that the two hunted deer together recently, killing two bucks. Quote, he was very loving speaking about his son. He tried to do everything for people. He helped this guy who killed him. Well said of his son. The father said he had been on Weber's property and watched Bradwick clean his house. House.
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far as, like, a caregiver. And Weber's parents even loved Brad. They liked Brad because he didn't take advantage of him, meaning not taking advantage of Dayton. And this is really where it gets interesting to me, and it ties back to Dayton's track record. But Wells said that his son told him that some people took advantage of Weber because he had money, but he had a different kind of friendship with Bradwick. Wells said that Bradwick had recently bought a new car and was even storing it on Weber's property. The day of the shooting, the father said he questioned his son about spending time with Weber, who he said had an unstable reputation. Who knows why he slept like that? Access to money. He had a lot of money and an unstable reputation. Now, going back, looking through his records, I did find a lawsuit that was filed on Dayton's behalf back in 2000, when he would have been about 4 years old, because he was born in 1998. He and his family, allegedly, based on what I can see from public court records, sued a whole slew of doctors and medical institutions, I'm guessing maybe for possibly misdiagnosing him as a child, not catching his illness soon enough. Something with his amputation, I'm not sure. But it was a large suit against doctors, medical malpractice in some regard. Now, this case went on, it was deliberated and fought until 2017. And then based on what I can see and assume, it was settled outside of court because it is closed. And that might answer the money question. It might answer the extensive resources he had for all of these fancy go karts that people talked about in articles, the fancy trucks, the Teslas, all of the guns. It might answer that question. And again, I'm just, you know, assuming based on what I can see. But I'm just trying to put the puzzle pieces of this man's life together because, again, based on the public information from ESPN and the Today show, like, this is totally unsurprising because he's this inspiration. He's a ray of positivity and hopefulness. But when you dig into the story, that's not actually what I found. Like, this is somebody who in the public eye acted as a kind of inspiration, a positive beacon of hope for his community, but behind the scenes, was allegedly incredibly unstable. Abused substances even as a teenager, allegedly had significant resources to blow and possibly limited accountability due to his situation. Again, I'm just assuming, maybe projecting based on the fact that this DUI was expunged even when he hit a cop car. I don't know. But that's just kind of my read on the situation. I mean, the entire thing, obviously, it is so absurd. I understand why the Internet is just losing their mind over it and why the memes that are going crazy. But the entire thing is just so tragic, obviously. I mean, there's a loss of life, but there's also this deeply unsettled individual behind the scenes. The whole, it's just heartbreaking. And I obviously feel for this victim, Brad, who seems like he was trying to do his best to be a real friend to this young man, a real friend to somebody who had faced hardships, who was struggling, who was unstable. He was trying to show up, not take advantage of him, even though he knew he was unsettled and unstable. Again, the entire thing is just so tragic. So there is your breakdown of the story. So if you, like me, were confused about the headlines, thought it was not possible. Unfortunately, it looks like it was. And it is a very tragic story.
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