Child who drove toy tractor into Beaver Co. river ID'd as son of rodeo star Spencer Wright

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5. 'We will miss him every second': Levi Wright dies after being taken off life support

The child hospitalized after driving a toy tractor into a river in southwestern Utah has been identified as Levi Wright, the son of rodeo star Spencer Wright. (Credit: Mindy Sue Clark) (credit: Mindy Sue Clark)

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‘We will miss him every second’: Levi Wright dies after being taken off life support

by: Jonathon Sharp
Posted: Jun 4, 2024 / 08:06 AM MDT
Updated: Jun 4, 2024 / 08:06 AM MDT

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Levi Wright, the 3-year-old boy who fell into a fast-moving creek in southern Utah last month, has died after being taken off life support. ... Levi, the son of rodeo star Spencer Wright, died on Saturday, a spokesperson for the family wrote on social media. Over the weekend, the child’s mother, Kallie Wright, posted on Facebook that the family decided to take the toddler off life support.

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“Here soon I’ll climb into bed with my baby and hold him as he falls asleep for the last time on this earth,” Kallie Wright wrote. ... She added: “We will miss him every second of every day down here but feel without unwavering doubt this is the best thing we can do for him.”

Levi fell into a creek in Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, while riding his toy tractor on May 21. Emergency crews pulled the child from the water roughly a mile downstream, and a helicopter flew him to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. ... As his family initially feared the worst, the boy clung to life. When he briefly awoke from a coma days after the accident, it gave his family — and the many people across the world who’ve followed Levi’s story — hope for a recovery.

But brain scans brought news that left the family “shattered,” as Kallie Wright wrote in one of her several social media updateshttps://www.facebook.com/kallie.wonnacott.9/posts/pfbid0nsWSyTpBYZmmxctfsjtx1jEtMHcnapEiJ4JT3PGgbKutwpjvYF3eSCJhQzrQ8LUvl. Last week, attempts to wean Levi off a breathing tube and sedation were unsuccessful. ... According to the boy’s mother, the decision to take him off life support came after several sleepless nights, days of research, and multiple conversations with top neurologists.

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