Fallen Chicago police officer Aréanah Preston will be laid to rest Wednesday morning.
Joseph Brooks, 18, told detectives he shot Preston when he saw her reaching for her gun, according to prosecutors.
Preston was hit at least twice and also grazed by a bullet. The teenagers grabbed her gun and fled, leaving her lying on the ground, still in uniform, prosecutors said.Four teens have been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston, who was fatally shot during an alleged robbery spree by the group.
Brooks, Jakwon Buchanan, 18, Trevell Breeland, 19, and Jaylen Frazier, 16, were all ordered held without bond. "These individuals were out looking for victims in the overnight hours of Friday into Saturday morning and are connected to multiple robberies and a motor vehicle theft earlier that morning, leading up to the murder of Officer Preston," CPD Interim Supt. Carter said.
Preston's weapon was stolen from the scene and sold, and the suspects fled in a vehicle that was stolen roughly an hour before the shooting from the 4700 block of South Indiana Avenue, police said.Two days of public mourning for fallen Chicago police officer Areanah Preston began Tuesday. A visitation was held at the Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn this afternoon.Preston was supposed to walk across a stage Saturday and accept her master’s degree from Loyola University Chicago.
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