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Rodeo star Spencer Wright’s son Levi, 3, dies after tragic accident

A friend of the Wright family pays tribute to the most perfect three-year-old ever

Courtesy of Kallie Wright/Facebook

Rodeo star Spencer WrightHis three-year-old son Levi died last month as a result of a severe brain injury.

Levi died on Sunday, June 2, after life support was withdrawn. Mindy Sue Clarka family friend said People“Levi was the absolute best little boy,” Clark said Monday, June 3. “It’s going to be hard navigating life without him.”

Hours before Levi’s death, his mother, Katharina Kruegergave a heartbreaking update on the condition of her son with husband Spencer.

“After several sleepless nights, a lot of research, numerous conversations with the best neurologists in the world and millions of prayers, we are now facing our greatest fear. Levi has shown us just enough to buy us time for all of this,” Kallie wrote under a video of herself and Levi. on Facebook on Sunday. “We prayed that he would defy all odds and prove to us that he wanted to stay here, but now we see that he wanted to give us time to come to terms with letting him go. I told you that my baby is attentive and considerate, and I truly believe that he did that for us.”

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Kallie further wrote that Levi “brought humanity to the nation” after he in critical condition for driving his toy tractor into a Utah river in late May. “Soon I will climb into bed with my baby and hold him as he falls asleep for the last time on this earth,” she continued. “It gives me comfort to know that he will go back to being the perfect little boy he was and have the ability to do all the things he loves! I know there are angels up there waiting to hold him until I can again!”

Kallie ended her emotional message by saying that she and Levi’s family will “miss him every second of every day down here, but believe without a doubt that this is the best thing we can do for him.” She added, “We love you, baby beans, and I can’t wait for the day you can ‘work the soil’ with me again!”

Levi was initially taken to hospital after the accident. According to Statement of 21 May According to the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office, Levi had “driven a toy tractor into a river” and lost visual contact with his family. After the child was “quickly located,” “life-saving measures” were administered before he was taken to a local hospital.

The Wright family was unsure whether Levi would make a full recovery because his condition did not “change significantly” during continued medical treatment, according to a May 22 report. Social media update provided by Clark.

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On Monday, Clark paid tribute to Levi on Facebook, writing: “I can’t even begin to describe how hard the last two weeks have been. From the moment my phone rang the night of his accident, to last night when I received the news that he had to go. I don’t want to focus on the bad or sad, even though it feels like someone ripped out my heart and crushed it right in front of my eyes. I want to focus on the many miracles we all witnessed in those 12 days.”

Clark, who described herself as Levi’s “Aunt Mindy,” said the response she and the Wright family have received has been “absolutely incredible” as strangers have come together to send Levi their best wishes despite the tragedy.

“Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people surrounded our best little buddy, praying for him and lovingly embracing Levi and his family,” she continued. “We have never seen or experienced anything like this before. I don’t know if we will ever be able to fully process it.”

Clark called Levi the “the most perfect three-year-old ever. So perfect we couldn’t keep him. This little boy has moved mountains in the last 12 days. He has brought so many people together. In such a dark world we have seen light through the hands of a child. He is everything his mommy and daddy would have wanted him to be.”