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A woman who claims she was romantically involved with a quadruple-amputee cornhole champion and the man he is accused of shooting dead in a murder case grabbing national attention has spoken of dating both of them – and said the accused killer had “a dark side”.
Tori Mattingly told TMZ in an interview published over the weekend that Dayton Webber would “lash out” at her during their four-year relationship. That relationship ended in February 2025 before she dated Bradrick Wells, the alleged victim of a deadly shooting in Webber’s car in suburban Washington DC on 22 March.
She shared with the outlet a video of Webber – who became a champion cornhole player after losing his limbs and nearly dying from a bacterial infection in his infancy – taken in 2024 that purports to show him shouting at her as he demands she leave his property.
In brief comments to TMZ, Mattingly alleged Webber had an “angry dark side” and that she was not surprised by the murder charge against him.
A lengthy Facebook post on the account of a woman with the same name expanded on the allegations.
“Watching people say ‘this doesn’t sound like him’ or ‘he would never do that’ is honestly sickening,” she wrote.
“You didn’t live with him. I did. For four years, I saw the side of him that nobody else wanted to believe existed. The anger. The control. The abuse.
“So no … I’m not shocked he’s being [accused] of murder. Because I know what he’s capable of.”
According to the sheriff’s office in Charles county, Maryland, Webber was driving three passengers in his car on the night of 22 March, began arguing with his front-seat passenger, 27-year-old Wells, then shot him twice in the head.
Webber allegedly asked his other passengers to help him remove Wells’s body from the car. But they refused, fled the vehicle and reported Webber to police while he drove off with the victim.
Police later found Wells’s body in a local yard. They eventually tracked Webber and his car down about 150 miles (240km) away in Virginia, where he had allegedly sought treatment at a hospital for an unspecified medical issue.
Investigators arrested Webber after he was discharged from the hospital. He faces charges of murder, assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
The cause of the argument or motive for the shooting has not been revealed.
Webber was 10 months old when he contracted a severe bacterial infection necessitating the amputations of his legs and lower arms, and a months-long hospital stay.
Despite his disabilities he became a budding wrestler and football player, then became a champion in the sport of cornhole – tossing small corn-filled bags into a 6in hole on a wooden platform 27ft away. He recorded numerous tournament wins in the American Cornhole League (ACL).
Mike Hoffman, his former doubles partner, told the Guardian on 24 March that he was surprised to hear of his friend’s arrest.
“I’ve been mad, sad – it sucks,” Hoffman said by telephone.
“If the allegations are true he’s made some terrible decisions.”
