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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emmanuel Camarillo

Hundreds gather at vigil for fallen CPD Officer Aréanah Preston: ‘She was a Goliath of a person.’

Hundreds gather at a vigil for slain Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston at the 5th District police station on east 111th Street. Preston was shot to death early Saturday outside her home on the South Side as she was returning from work. (Emmanuel Camarillo/Sun-Times)

Aréanah Preston was a firecracker. 

That’s how family and friends remembered the slain Chicago police officer at a prayer vigil Tuesday, saying that though the 24-year-old wasn’t physically imposing, she was powerful. 

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