Six-year-old Mylah Santa Maria called 911 to deliver an urgent message.

“I need y’all to tell the sheriff … that I love him and I love y’all,” Mylah, of Collins, Mississippi, told the dispatcher, according to WDAM7.

“I will make sure that I get that to him, OK?” the dispatcher answered, according to a transcript of the call placed earlier this week. 

Covington County Sheriff Darrell Perkins got the message and decided a special thank-you was in order.

He surprised Mylah and her family at their home, giving them school supplies and a special Sheriff’s Department coin, WDAM reported… READ MORE