Slain Officer Aréanah Preston’s mother voices hope at funeral: ‘In this tragic situation, my family and I feel triumph’

Dionne Mhoon (standing beside a police officer), mother of Officer Aréanah Preston, and her family cry as Preston’s hearse arrives Wednesday at Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 W. 95th St. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

As the mother of slain Chicago Police Officer Areanah Preston stepped to the podium at a Far South Side church on Wednesday, she spoke words of hope as she invoked her daughter’s spirit.

“In this tragic situation, my family and I feel triumph,” she told the crowd at Trinity United Church of Christ.