SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Levi Wright, the 3-year-old boy who fell right into a fast-moving creek in southern Utah final month, has died after being taken off life assist.
Levi, the son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, died on Saturday, a spokesperson for the household wrote on social media. Over the weekend, the kid’s mom, Kallie Wright, posted on Fb that the household determined to take the toddler off life assist.
“Right here quickly I’ll climb into mattress with my child and maintain him as he falls asleep for the final time on this earth,” Kallie Wright wrote.
She added: “We’ll miss him each second of on daily basis down right here however really feel with out unwavering doubt that is the very best factor we will do for him.”
Levi fell right into a creek in Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, whereas driving his toy tractor on Might 21. Emergency crews pulled the kid from the water roughly a mile downstream, and a helicopter flew him to Major Kids’s Hospital in Salt Lake Metropolis.
As his household initially feared the worst, the boy clung to life. When he briefly awoke from a coma days after the accident, it gave his household — and the many individuals internationally who’ve adopted Levi’s story — hope for a restoration.
However mind scans introduced information that left the household “shattered,” as Kallie Wright wrote in one in all her a number of social media updates. Final week, makes an attempt to wean Levi off a respiratory tube and sedation have been unsuccessful.
In line with the boy’s mom, the choice to take him off life assist got here after a number of sleepless nights, days of analysis, and a number of conversations with high neurologists.
“Levi confirmed us simply sufficient to purchase us time for all of this,” Kallie Wright wrote. “We prayed these issues have been him defying odds and proving to us that he wished to remain right here however we see now he wished to provide us time to search out peace with letting him go.”
Mindy Sue Clark, the household spokesperson, wrote on social media that Levi’s journey during the last two weeks touched the lives of 1000’s of individuals internationally.
“This child boy moved mountains the final 12 days,” she wrote. “He introduced so many individuals collectively. In a world so darkish, we obtained to see gentle by the hands of a kid. He’s every part his mother and pop might’ve wished him to be.”
As a part of the outpouring of assist, a profit public sale was created to assist the Wright household. It options dozens of things, together with horses, rodeo gear, and a portray of Levi.