CHICAGO—An off-duty Chicago police officer was shot and killed early Saturday as she headed dwelling on town’s Southside after her shift.
The officer was shot about 1:42 a.m. within the metropolis’s Avalon Park neighborhood, police mentioned.
She was discovered wounded by one other officer who responded to an alert from town’s gunshot detection system, the Chicago Solar-Instances reported.
The second officer rushed her to a hospital the place she was pronounced lifeless. The slain officer had been with Chicago police about three years.
No arrests have been made.
Family members recognized the slain officer to the Chicago Solar-Instances as Areanah Preston, 24.
“She was attempting to make a change on this Earth,” her father, Allen Preston, instructed the newspaper.
Preston, who lives in Los Angeles, described his daughter as a “stunning soul” who “at all times noticed the perfect in folks.”
“This was my child. Every little thing I did was for her,” he mentioned. “I don’t know what to do, proper now. I’ll be coping with this for the remainder of my life.”
Late Saturday morning, greater than a dozen relations gathered exterior Areanah Preston’s dwelling.
“She was a particular position mannequin with a profession path that simply didn’t cease,” mentioned her aunt, Sonia Rawsk.
Areanah Preston earned a bachelor’s diploma in prison justice and legislation enforcement administration from Illinois State College.
Professor Charles Bell instructed the Solar-Instances that she was “very keen about making a distinction and displaying younger those that policing is a career that may make a distinction locally.”
“She was very conscious of quite a lot of the issues that in her opinion had manifested within the Chicago group,” Bell added. “She was a reformer. She noticed an issue and she or he was devoted to creating a distinction.”
