Levi Wright, the young son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, has died. The three-year-old boy died after suffering a traumatic brain injury when he nearly drowned on May 21. Levi was rushed to a Salt Lake City hospital after accidentally dumping a toy tractor into a river near the family home on May 21. Local law enforcement found Levi unconscious about a mile downstream. Although he was initially declared brain dead and not expected to survive, the boy began to show signs of improvement. “LEVI IS WAKE UP! I’m shocked we don’t know much but the doctor said it’s OK I’m happy about it and I AM! My baby is so strong!” his mother Kallie Wright wrote on Facebook.
Unfortunately, the results of an MRI the next day were “not good.” “We are devastated but they are just pictures that suggest a certain quality of life. Our real gauge will be what Levi does over the course of a few days,” Kallie shared. As Levi continued to struggle in the hospital, his family and friends continued to ask for prayers. On June 2, Kallie shared devastating news. “After several sleepless nights, lots of research, multiple conversations with the best neurologists in the world, and millions of prayers, here we are facing our greatest fear,” she wrote. “Levi showed us just enough to give us time for all of this.
We prayed that these things meant he was defying the odds and wanted to show us he wanted to stay here, but we now see that he wanted to give us time to find peace in letting him go.” After countless tests, scans, and counseling, the Wright family took Levi off life support. The next day, June 3, a family friend, Mindy Sue Clark, confirmed on Facebook that Levi had died. “I can’t even begin to explain 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 is ripping my heart out and squeezing it right in front of me.
I want to focus on the many miracles we all got to experience in those 12 days.” “The most perfect three-year-old boy that ever existed. So perfect that we didn’t get to 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 got to see the light through a child. He is everything his mother and father could have wanted.” Our prayers are with the Wright family during this extremely difficult time.
