The superstar’s 3-year-old son dies after tragic river accident
Spencer Wright, a famous rodeo cowboy, tragically lost his young son, Levi Wright. The three-year-old boy died after a near-drowning accident caused a traumatic brain injury.
Levi was taken to a hospital in Salt Lake City after accidentally driving a toy tractor into a river near his family’s house. About a mile downstream, local police found Levi unconscious.
Despite being told that Levi was brain dead and unlikely to live, the boy started to show signs of improvement. “LEVI AWAKENED!” his mother, Kallie Wright, wrote on Facebook. “We don’t know much, but the doctor told me it was okay to be excited about that, and I AM! My child is really tough!”
Unfortunately, MRI results the next day were not good. “We are broken, but it’s just pictures that show a certain way of life,” Kallie said. “What Levi does over the next few days will really tell us everything.”
Family and friends continued to pray for Levi as he fought in the hospital.
On June 2, Kallie shared devastating news: “After many sleepless nights, a lot of research, many talks with the best neurologists in the world, and millions of prayers, we are here facing our biggest fear,” she wrote.
“Levi only showed us enough to buy us some time. He did those things to show us that he wanted to stay here, even though the odds were against him. Now we know that he just wanted to give us time to be okay with letting him go.”
Levi Wright’s family turned off his life support after many tests, scans, and consultations.
The next day, Mindy Sue Clark, a family friend, wrote on Facebook that Levi had died. “The last two weeks have been so hard that I can’t even begin to describe them. The phone rang the night of his accident, and I got the message that he had to leave last night. That’s why I don’t want to think about the bad or sad things.
It hurts like someone tore my heart out and squished it right in front of me. What I want to talk about is all the miracles we saw during those 12 days.
The most wonderful three-year-old ever. He was so perfect that we couldn’t keep him. In the last 12 days, this baby boy did a lot. He got a lot of people to come together. A child brought light into a very dark world. His parents could not have asked for a better child.”
During this very hard time, our thoughts and prayers are with the Wright family.
