Levi Wright, 3-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, taken off life support 2 weeks after toy tractor accident

Levi Wright, the 3-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 rode his toy tractor near a canal and was found unconscious in the water one kilometer from home.

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

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

The family remained hopeful after experiencing what they said were small miracles over the past two weeks, but on Sunday, Kallie Wright wrote on Facebook that they were “facing our greatest fear.”

“Levi showed us just enough to buy us time for all of this. We prayed that he would defy the odds and prove to us that he wanted to stay here, but we see now that he wanted to give us time to find peace by letting him go. ,” she wrote. “…Here soon I will climb into bed with my baby and hold him as he falls asleep for the last time on this earth. I find comfort in knowing that he will be restored to the perfect boy he was and will have the ability to do all the things he loves.”

Along with a video of her and her son, Kallie Wright said the family believes “this is the best thing we can do for him” after conducting research and speaking with “the best neurologists in the world.”

In a separate post on Monday, Clark said the ordeal “feels like someone ripped my heart out and squeezed it right in front of me.”

“I can’t even begin to explain how difficult the last two weeks have been. From the moment my phone rang on the night of the accident until last night when I got the message that he needed to leave,” she said, adding that he didn’t. I want to focus on the “bad or sad”. “I want to focus on the many miracles we were able to witness,” she said.

“The most perfect three-year-old boy who ever lived. So perfect we couldn’t keep it,” she said. “This boy has moved mountains in the last 12 days. He has brought so many people together. In a world so dark, we could see the light in the hands of a child. He is everything his mother and father could have wanted him to be,” she said . “I’m so grateful for all the time I spent being your ‘Aunt Mindy’. That’s a blessing I’ll never be able to get over.”

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

A few days before Levi was taken off life support, Kallie Wright wrote in a Facebook update that doctors tried to take the 3-year-old off sedation, but “he couldn’t.” They performed another 24-hour electroencephalogram (EEG) — a test to measure brain activity — as well as another MRI as part of an effort to “check and recheck everything we can,” she said.

“They are keeping Levi comfortable,” she said, adding that he was once again placed under heavy sedation.

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