Rodeo star Spencer Wright’s 3-year-old son Levi dies after river accident

Levi Wright, the three-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, has According to reports died after a near-drowning accident.

Kallie Wright, Levi’s mother, previously shared on Facebook that the family would have to take the little boy off life support two weeks after he drove his toy tractor into a Utah river.

Accordingly PeopleFamily friend Mindy Sue Clark confirmed Levi’s death on Monday.

“Levi was the absolute best little boy,” Clark told the outlet. “It’s going to be hard navigating life without him.”

The day before, Kallie had posted a heartbreaking update on social media.

“After several sleepless nights, lots of research, numerous conversations with the best neurologists in the world, and millions of prayers, here we are, facing our greatest fear,” Kallie wrote of the decision to pull the plug. “Levi showed us just enough to buy us time to do all of this. We prayed that this would defy the odds and prove to us that he wanted to stay, but now we see that he wanted to give us time to come to terms with letting him go. I told you my baby was thoughtful and attentive, and I truly believe he did that for us.”

Levi was hospitalized and is in critical condition because his brain has been deprived of oxygen for too long since the river accident on May 21. According to a Statement from Beaver County Sheriff’s Office At this point, Levi had “driven a toy tractor into a river and the reporting person had lost visual contact with the child.” He was “quickly located” and received “life-saving measures” before being taken to a local hospital.

In the caption of a sweet video of herself and Levi, the mother of three wrote that her son had “expressed humanity across the country” and “reminded them of what really matters in this world.”

“Soon I will climb into bed with my baby and hold him as he falls asleep for the last time on this earth,” Kallie wrote. “It brings me comfort knowing that he will go back to being the perfect little boy he was and be able to do all the things he loves! I know there are angels up there waiting to hold him until I can again!”

Kallie concluded her emotional post by saying that she and Levi’s family will “miss him every second of every day down here, but are convinced without a shadow of a doubt that this is the best thing we can do for him.”

She added a final message to Levi: “We love you, baby beans, and I can’t wait for the day when you can ‘work the soil’ with me again!”

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