Chicago Tribune By Adriana Pérez, Deanese Williams-Harris, Rosemary Sobol and Laura Rodríguez Presa
A young Chicago police officer who had recently earned her master’s degree and whose family called her “happy” and “intelligent” was shot dead early Saturday shortly after leaving the station following her shift on the city’s South Side, Chicago police said.
Police responded to “ShotSpotter” calls about 1:45 a.m. in the 8100 block of South Blackstone Avenue in the Avalon Park neighborhood and found 24-year-old Aréanah Preston with gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office and police.
One of the first officers to get there rendered aid, but Preston was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she died, police said.
Her death from multiple gunshot wounds was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said Sunday.
No one was in custody in the fatal shooting, police said…
