 Local law enforcement shared thoughts and prayers for the family of Floyd County Deputy Oliver Little who passed away Wednesday evening from COVID-19 complications. That's just him. He had a grin on his face. He wanted to laugh. He smiled any time you looked at him or talked to him and he didn't mean anything negative. He was just, that's just Oliver. He had a smile and a grin about any time you seen him. Deputy Oliver Little of the Floyd County Sheriff's Office was in the process of transitioning to the Pikeville Police Department before contracting COVID-19. Wednesday the Floyd County Sheriff's Office announced that Little had died due to complications from the virus. Thursday, Mountaintops spoke with local law enforcement about their time and memory with Deputy Little. Well Oliver worked here for several years. He started with me in 2015. When he came to me he was a ER nurse here at one of the hospitals in the county and he had a real good background in obviously the medical field. He was a paramedic and he was just a great asset to us and an obvious easy decision to hire him and did we ever get more out of him than we thought we would after we did hire him. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. In his career as deputy Sheriff Hunt says Little was a servant and admired helping locals. Additionally, Hunt says Little was a great asset to their department teaching fellow deputies the importance of being an officer. They learned for one that there's more to being a police officer than just you know doing the police job of it it's really a it's truly service you know it's what you do to people how you treat people you know everybody wants to go out and be arrest a bad guy and chase a bad guy or whatever but Oliver showed them that it was more than that I mean you go that extra step to treat somebody good to make sure they're okay make sure they're healthy they got somebody to take care of them. Local law enforcement shared thoughts and prayers for Deputy Little's family. Oliver is in good hands and we all know that and he'll be missed by everybody but we will he will never be forgotten in Pikeville or in Floyd County because of all the stuff he's done for the communities and he's got many many friends. Obviously thank everybody for being so supportive and all the nice comments and just everything that we hate it so he's going to be missed here and I know Pikeville PD is going to miss out on an opportunity that he could have came obviously into their department and made a big impact too and they would have loved having him and I just had bigger plans and this is how it worked out. Deputy Oliver Little was 46 years old. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Corjol.