A 2-year-old boy died days after he drowned in a community pool in San Antonio.

Malachi Israel LeBlanc was swimming in the Far North Side community pool on Aug. 5 when he was found unresponsive in the water around 7:30 p.m. local time, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said, News 4 reported.

He was pulled from the pool and received lifesaving efforts until Emergency Medical Services arrived. Malachi was transported to the local hospital, where he was in critical condition. Days later, he was declared brain dead and died on Aug. 9. His death was ruled an accident, the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office said, per the outlet.

His parents, Grace and Myron LeBlanc, were not with him at the time of the accident, saying he was with a person whom they trusted to care for their children. Once Grace was alerted to the accident, she rushed to the hospital; she told KSAT. “I just started saying, Jesus … Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, and I rushed to the hospital,” she said.

During the toddler’s hospital stay, Grace and Myron were told that Malachi was declared brain dead. Due to his condition, the Texas Organ Donation Alliance approached Grace and Myron about organ donation. While Grace initially was hesitant, saying, “Not my baby, nobody’s going to cut my baby open,” she opened up to the idea, thinking of the families who are “praying for a miracle,” like she had been with Malachi.

“I felt that pain,” she said. “To know that other parents are going through that, and there’s a chance that they’ll get to hear their baby cry again, that they’ll get to feel their breath and listen to their heartbeat — absolutely, why would I not want to give them that?”

“If we weren’t going to receive the miracle we wanted, I wanted Malachi to be that miracle for someone else,” Grace said.

It is predicted that Malachi will have donated his heart, liver and kidneys, depending on how the transplant process goes. His donation is rare, with over 2,200 children under 18 currently on the national transplant waiting list, and 27% of those in need are younger than 5, according to Donate Life America.

His father posted a message in memory of Malachi on Facebook. “Those babies who will receive Malachi’s organs will get a chance at life. Those families will receive a blessing that our Lord has provided for them through Malachi,” Myron wrote.

“His story, and the way it has touched so many people, will live on,” he wrote. “I am honored to have been trusted with such a son as Malachi. In his two short years, he touched so many people. Everywhere he went, he brought a smile to someone’s face. Everyone was always telling me how beautiful he was and what a joy it was to be around him.”

Grace echoed the sentiments, telling KSAT how much she misses her “baby.”

“He was perfect,” she said. “He was just the joy of our life.”