The slaying of an off-duty Chicago police officer hit close to home for the wife of Chicago’s top cop, a former police supervisor who coached the young patrolwoman’s high school cheerleading team and who remembers her as “an absolute sweetheart.”
Interim police Supt. Eric Carter was there to provide the first details of the killing during a somber news conference Saturday outside the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Officer Areanah Preston was pronounced dead after being gunned down outside her home hours earlier.
