Kallie Wright is speaking out about the death of her 3-year-old son, Levi.
Levi suffered a severe brain injury on May 21, after driving his toy tractor into a Utah creek near their home. Twelve days later, on June 2, Kallie and her husband, rodeo star Spencer Wright, made the difficult decision to remove Levi from life support.
“Unless you’ve been to my place, it’s hard to paint a picture of how something like this can happen,” Kallie began a Facebook post on June 6.
“There is a creek that runs through our 24-acre property and separates our house from Grandma and Grandpa’s,” Kallie wrote, noting that the family gets across on a concrete road.
“Water only runs through for a short time during the year and can change overnight,” Kallie wrote.“Levi did not do anything he hasn’t done before, but this time, the water was at its peak & strong enough to push his tractor off the road into the creek as he drove through.”
On the day of the accident, Levi asked his mom if he could ride his tractor. In her post, Kallie said that told him yes, but that he couldn’t go near the creek.
“That’s a decision that will haunt me for the rest of my life. In that moment he was my responsibility alone,” Kallie wrote. “Whether I went back to check on my sleeping baby, swap the laundry, wash a bottle or put away lunch, I honestly don’t know. Whatever it was, wasn’t more important than following him that day.”
“Although I’m a firm believer that our stories are written long before we reach this earth & that our Lord will take us when he’s ready, I will lose sleep over this for eternity,” she continued. “But with this, I know 3 things to be true. 1. I am not a perfect mom but I am a good mom. 2. My little boy loved me with all he had. 3. Never say never because it only takes seconds and it can happen to you too."
“I pray anyone who judges me or has hurtful words to say never finds themself on the receiving end of a nightmare like this.”
A celebration of life service will be held in Beaver, Utah, according to family spokesperson Mindy Sue Clark. Clark confirmed to People that Levi passed away on June 2.
“Levi Spencer Wright — March 24, 2021-June 02, 2024,” Clark wrote on Facebook. “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.”
In a Facebook post on June 2, Kallie announced that she and Spencer made the decision to withdraw life-sustaining treatment after “multiple conversations with the world’s best neurologists and millions of prayers.”
“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 wrote. “I find comfort in knowing he will be restored to the perfect little boy he was & have the ability to do all the things he loves!”
“I know there are Angels up there waiting to hold him until I can again!” she continued. “We will miss him every second of every day down here but feel without unwavering doubt that this is the best thing we can do for him!”
Kallie included a video of herself and Levi driving around on a piece of agriculturalmachinery. In the clip, she kisses Levi's cheek and asks, “Are you my best bud?” to which he replies, “Yeah!”
The Beaver County Sheriff’s Office confirmed on May 21 that a child had driven a toy tractor into a river.
“To whoever decided to spend close to an hour reviving him and not giving up. I’d hug you if I could,” Kallie wrote on Facebook. She referred to all the first responders as “mine and Levi’s angels.”
Kallie posted several updates from the hospital, and said that she and Levi’s dad were exploring different therapies for their son.
“Please for one second don’t think we haven’t fully done our homework, it has been nonstop,” Kallie shared. “I’m going to close with, no parent in this situation ever ‘gives up’ on their child.”
