Brett Cooper

Brad helped him a lot as far as like a caregiver and Webber'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 four 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.