Levi Wright, the three-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, is no longer on a ventilator two weeks after an accident with a toy tractor

Levi Wrightthe three-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, has died. In a statement posted on Facebook, a close family friend said the Wrights took Levi off life support on Sunday, two weeks after the child was driving his toy tractor near a waterway and was found unconscious in the water a mile from home.

Late last month, Levi — who had just turned 3 in March — was playing at the family’s home in Beaver County, Utah. His mother, Kallie Wright, ran into the house for just a moment and when she came back out, her son was gone, according to Mindy Clark, a close family friend. She saw that the toy tractor he had been playing on had tipped over and immediately called 911 while she searched for him, Clark said.

He was later found unconscious in the water a mile away.

The family held on to hope after what they said were small miracles over the past two weeks, but on Sunday Kallie Wright wrote on Facebook that they had been “faced with their greatest fear.”

“Levi showed us just enough to give 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,” she wrote. “…Soon I will climb into bed with my baby and hold him as he falls asleep for the last time on this earth. I take comfort in knowing that he will go back to being the perfect little boy he was and have the ability to do all the things he loves.”

Kallie Wright added a video of herself and her son, saying the family was convinced “this is the best thing we can do for him” after researching and speaking to “the world’s best neurologists.”

In a separate post on Monday, Clark said the ordeal felt like someone had ripped out my heart and crushed it right in front of my eyes.

“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 the news that he had to go last night,” she said, adding that she didn’t want to focus on the “bad or sad” parts. “I want to focus on the many miracles we have been able to witness,” she said.

“The most perfect three-year-old ever. So perfect we couldn’t keep him,” she said. “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 could have wanted him to be,” she said. “I am so grateful for all the time I got to be his ‘Aunt Mindy.’ That is a blessing I will never be able to top.”

The accident occurred on May 21 when the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a call that a child had driven his tractor into the water. Police said “life-saving measures were administered on scene” before the child was taken to the hospital and eventually flown by helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital.

A few days before Levi was taken off life support, Kallie Wright wrote in a Facebook update that doctors had tried to bring the 3-year-old off sedation, but “he didn’t make it.” They performed another 24-hour electroencephalogram (EEG) – a test that measures brain activity – as well as another MRI to “check everything we can,” she said.

“They are making sure Levi is doing so well,” she said, adding that he had been put back on strong sedatives.

Levi is one of three children of Kallie Wright and Spencer Wright, who is ranked 40th in the world in saddle bronc riding.