Family, friends and fellow officers gathered to remember slain Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston at her funeral Wednesday.
Mourners arrive at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn for the visitation for slain Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston on May 16, 2023.
Preston was shot and killed as she returned to her Avalon Park home from a late-night shift in early May.Chicago police officer, 24, killed just after her shift ends. ‘I wanted to be an officer ... a person to fight for justice,’ she said in a 2021 interview.Mourners sobbed as the black hearse carrying Preston arrived. Loved ones held one another up, one shrieking lament as bagpipers played.
“She was all that and more,” Preston’s grandfather told the Tribune shortly after her death. “I can’t speak about her without breaking up.”
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