Lilly is the daughter of fallen Kirkersville, Ohio police chief Eric Disario, who was shot and killed during an incident at a nursing home in 2017. Lilly was born just two days after his funeral.

Five years later, this week marked Lilly’s first day of kindergarten. “It’s another milestone my husband had to miss,” Lily’s mother Aryn Disario told WBNS.

Disario might not have been there for her first day at school, but officers across the state ensured his presence wasn’t forgotten.

Almost two dozen law enforcement officers pulled up outside the family home on Wednesday morning. Lilly was driven into school in the back of Licking County Sheriff’s Office Detective Adam Beach’s police car.

Beach was the man behind the gesture and even organized a “walk of honor” into the school for the five-year-old.

“It’s all for you because everybody loved your daddy,” Aryn Disario told her daughter Lilly, in a heartfelt moment captured by WBNS.

The Licking County Sheriff’s Office took part in the special day, along with departments from Buckeye Lake, Hebron, Granville, Reynoldsburg, Utica, Newark and Kirkersville. Representatives from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the dog warden’s office and the Secret Service also showed up to make the day a special one.

“It warmed my heart to know that everybody still remembers and everybody loves and cares for her dad and our family,” Aryn Disario said.

In 2017, 46 law enforcement officers died from injuries incurred in the line of duty during felonious incidents.

Eric Disario was killed in May 2017, when gunman Thomas Hartless killed his former girlfriend, who was a nurse at Pine Kirk Care Center, and a fellow nurse’s aide. Disario was shot outside the nursing home and died later at Licking Memorial Hospital.

Lilly was never able to meet her father, with her birth coming just two days following his funeral. Aryn Disario told WBNS that they go the extra mile to keep Lilly’s dad in her life following his death and her birth.

“We talk about her dad all the time,” she said. “Ever since she was able to point and talk she’s able to look at a picture of her daddy and know exactly who he is and she’s always been able to tell everybody exactly who he is. She’ll tell everybody he’s in heaven with God.”

“I miss my person. My partner. My everything.”

Newsweek has reached out to the Licking County Sheriff’s Office for comment.