A Chicago police officer described as someone “trying to make a change on this Earth” and to show “young people that policing is a profession that can make a difference in the community” was shot to death early Saturday near her home in Avalon Park on the city’s South Side.
Areanah Preston, 24, was getting home from work when she was shot at about 1:42 a.m. in the 8100 block of South Blackstone Avenue, according to the Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
