Usher’s 11-year-old stepson Kyle Glover dies

Usher’s 11-year-old stepson has died, two weeks after the child was critically injured in a boating accident.

Kyle Glover passed away on Saturday morning from the injuries he obtained after being run over on July 6 by a personal watercraft on Lake Lanier, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the young boy, whose mother is Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster, was taken off life support by doctors, who determined that he would not recover from his injuries.Foster is said to have grappled with the difficult decision to disconnect the life support, and is said to be understandably ‘devastated,’ according to TMZ.Kyle was struck in the head during a jet ski collision while riding an inner tube on Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this month. According to authorities, a family friend who was riding a jet ski behind the pontoon lost control and collided with Glover’s tube. Kyle was with an unidentified 15-year-old girl at the time and both children were airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.He was later declared brain dead. Willie A. Watkins funeral home in Atlanta confirmed it was handling funeral arrangements for the young boy A friend of the family, 38-year-old Jeffrey S. Hubbard, was allegedly operating the jet ski at the time of the collision. As news of Kyle’s death emerged, a string of celebrities took to Twitter to express their condolences.Those included pop star Justin Bieber, who Tweeted: ‘RIP Kile’, and Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who wrote: ‘I am sending every prayer I got to Tameka, Ryan, Usher and their family’.Usher (33) and Foster, who divorced in 2009 after two years of marriage, were in the throes of a bitter custody battle over their sons Usher Raymond V, four, and Naviyd, three.But they are understood have put their differences aside in the wake of the devastating accident. Kyle’s father is Atlanta-based clothier Ryan Glover, Tameka’s ex husband.Meanwhile Investigators analysing the collision were waiting to see the outcome of his condition before they came to a conclusion surrounding the accident.Last week Sergeant Mike Burgamy explained that the accident was still under investigation, and that the lead investigators had yet to talk with the district attorney’s office. – www.dailymail.co.uk

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