Son of RGV Livestock Show winner dies after toy tractor accident

BEAVER COUNTY, Utah (ValleyCentral) — The son of a rodeo star who recently won the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show died after an accident involving a toy tractor.

Spencer Wright recently competed at the 2024 Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show, winning the saddle bronc riding category. Just two months later, his young son, Levi Wright, suffered complications after falling into a body of water.

According to a press release from the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office, officers responded to a 911 call on May 21 that a child in Utah had driven his toy tractor into a river.

The reporting officer advised dispatch that they had lost sight of the child. When the Beaver County Sheriff’s Office, Utah Highway Patrol, Beaver County Search and Rescue, Beaver Fire Department and a Beaver ambulance arrived at the scene, they were able to quickly locate the child. Life-saving measures were administered at the scene.

The child was then immediately taken to Beaver Valley Hospital, where he received medical care and was then transported by rescue helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital.

Kallie Wright, the child’s mother, posted updates on her child’s condition on Facebook.

“This is a rollercoaster ride that you enter involuntarily and blindfolded. You don’t know what’s coming next. You just have to wait and ride it out. We live it day by day,” Kallie said in a Facebook post.

On May 26, Wright announced that her baby, Levi Wright, was suffering from a brain injury.

On June 2, Kallie gave her final update on her son’s condition and the couple decided to take their child off life support.

“Levi showed us just enough to buy us time to do all this,” Kallie said. “We prayed that this would be him defying the odds and proving 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.”