School superintendent's youngest son dies from his injuries after being sucked down storm drain and swept under neighboring streets

The 10-year-old lad who was swept into a tempest drain adjacent his location aft a tornado tragically passed distant Saturday, according to a Facebook station from his father.

Dr. Jimmy Sullivan, the manager of schools for Rutherford County - conscionable extracurricular of Nashville - wrote successful a station that his younger son, Asher Sullivan, died astatine adjacent to 1.20pm Saturday astatine Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.

The 10-year-old volition go an organ donor and truthful helium is inactive connected beingness enactment astatine this time, according to section reports.

In the devastating societal media post, his begetter wrote: 'It’s 100% an Asher benignant happening to bash successful continuing to beryllium selfless. He volition person an grant locomotion astatine the infirmary successful the adjacent fewer days and beryllium celebrated arsenic helium is, a hero!'

On May 8, Asher was swept into a tempest drain arsenic neighbors helped cleanable up debris pursuing the storm.

He yet emerged from a drainage ditch with different boy, but was critically injured and placed connected beingness support. An MRI taken past Thursday concluded that the archetypal encephalon harm he'd suffered had progressed further.

On Friday, arsenic the boy's begetter and parent met with neurologists, his vitals crashed, his assemblage mislaid the quality to power its somesthesia and his oculus effect ceased.

His begetter wrote: 'Our saccharine lad did what Asher has ever done, helium enactment others first. No longer did Kaycee and I person to marque an intolerable decision.

'Instead, helium made it for america portion we were retired of the room.'

The doctors conducted a trial to find that Asher had technically died.

'No genitor should person to ticker this, but we knew for our hearts, we had to. The results showed america what we already knew, that our saccharine Asher was already gone,' wrote Sullivan.

'We are broken-hearted, mad, and each different emotion astatine the aforesaid time.'

The household volition commemorate the young boy's beingness with a backstage ceremonial and person asked for privateness arsenic they mourn.

'Please support our household successful your prayers arsenic we navigate a satellite without the purest 1 of america successful it,' added Sullivan, who besides said of his lad that helium had lived a jam-packed beingness afloat of emotion and adventure.

'He visited each 50 states (something helium was truthful arrogant of), visited 4 countries, played each athletics imaginable, was the kindest/gentlest psyche I’ve ever met, loved EVERYONE, and lived his beingness connected GO astatine each times.

'Our nicknames for each different were ‘squirrel’ and ‘papa squirrel’ due to the fact that we ever had to go, go, spell and could not absorption connected 1 thing.'

Ahead of his passing, his begetter said Asher's 'lungs (were) severely damaged, and helium is not showing overmuch encephalon enactment extracurricular of musculus jerks.'

The fearfulness initially unfolded arsenic the 10-year-old played with different vicinity kids successful the aftermath of a tornado and terrible tempest that ripped done Tennessee, killing three. 

While neighbors banded unneurotic to wide the damage, Asher's begetter said that 'somehow, (he) got caught successful the tempest drain and was swept nether the vicinity streets.' 

Asher 'eventually' emerged successful a drainage ditch, helium said, alongside different lad who besides lives connected his street, eighth-grader Madden Moltz, who is expected to retrieve from his injuries.

The calamity for the Sullivan household comes arsenic conscionable year's aft Asher's older brother, Declan, battled leukemia for 4 years earlier beating the illness successful 2022.