Spencer Wright and his family recently experienced a devastating loss when the rodeo star’s 3-year-old son drove a toy tractor into a Utah river late last month. The boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he was placed on life support.
However, it was reported that Levi was taken off life support, succumbing to the accident. Levi’s mother, Kallie Wright, posted on Facebook about the loss of her son. “After several sleepless nights, lots of research, multiple conversations with the world’s best neurologists & millions of prayers we are here in the face of our biggest fear,” she wrote. “I know there are Angels up there waiting to hold him until I can again!” she said.
Wright further explained the difficulty of taking her son off of life support. “Levi showed us just enough to buy us time for all of this. We prayed those things were him defying odds & proving to us that he wanted to stay here but we see now he wanted to give us time to find peace with letting him go,” she continued. “I told you my baby was thoughtful & considerate, I truly believe he did that for us.”
Levi’s aunt, Mindy Sue Clark, shared a message on Facebook honoring her nephew’s life while expressing how hard the past couple weeks have been on the family. She wrote on Facebook, “I cannot 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 receiving the message that he had to go.”
Clark described the outpouring of support the family received during their struggles while Levi was in the hospital. The power of social media allowed masses of people to offer prayers and hope as it was uncertain what would happen to the boy.
“I don’t want to focus on the bad or sad, even though it feels like someone ripped my heart out and squeezed it right in front of me. I want to focus on the many miracles we all got to bear witness to in those 12 days. The response Levi’s story got was absolutely incredible. How many people have told us our names were permanently in their social media search bars waiting for updates. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people surrounded our best little buddy, lifted him up in prayer, and threw their loving arms around Levi and his family. We’ve never seen or experienced anything like it. I don’t know that we will ever be able to process it fully,” she continued.
While expressing how grateful she was for the time she got to me Levi’s aunt, Clark she stressed how much he will be missed. She stated, “The most perfect three year old there ever was. So perfect we didn’t get to keep him. This baby boy moved mountains the last 12 days. He brought so many people together. In a world so dark, we got to see light at the hands of a child. He’s everything his mom and dad could’ve wanted him to be. I am so thankful for all the time I got to be his “aunt Mindy”.
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She concluded, “That is a blessing I will never be able to top. I’m also so thankful my last visit to Utah, even though I was so tired, that I stayed awake a little longer to do s’mores with the kids. It’s all they had talked about all day that day. Love you Beans! Going to miss you like crazy buddy!”