Boy injured by falling treehouse dies
A 4-year-old boy who was injured when a treehouse fell on him on Christmas Eve at a relative’s home in the Splendora area has died.
Courtney Contreras, mother of Kade Contreras, posted on Facebook Wednesday night: “Our sweet baby boy went home to be with Jesus today. At 4:18 p.m. I am trying really hard not to question the whys because I will never know that.
“All that I know for sure is that we were blessed beyond measure to be Kade Dylan’s parents. My days will never be the same without him and his little voice and big smile. I can’t say thank you enough for everyone and how much you lifted my family up. I’ll ask one more time to lift us up in peace and understanding.”
The Cleveland community had rallied around the boy’s family but friends said tests showed he had no brain activity so the family had to make the agonizing decision to remove him from life support.
Kade, the youngest of four sons of Roy and Courtney Contreras, and grandson of Neil and Linda Stuckey, all of Cleveland, suffered major head trauma and was on lifesupporting machines at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
“He had swelling on his brain after the accident,” Cleveland ISD Police Chief Rex Evans, spokesperson for the family, said earlier Wednesday.
The Stuckey and Contreras families are wellregarded in Cleveland in part for their support of youth activities.
“He had just turned 4 and was looking forward to Christmas,” Evans said. “This is about as bad as it gets and the family is asking the community to please keep praying for him.”