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A 24-year-old Chicago police officer was gunned down outside her South Side home Saturday, according to authorities, just after the end of her night shift.

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Officer Areanah Preston, 24, was found dead in front of her home on 81st Street and Blackstone Avenue as she came home from work at 1.42am on Saturday morning.

An off-duty Chicago police officer was killed in a shooting in Avalon Park early Saturday morning. 

Areanah Preston, who had only been with the department for three years, was assigned to the Calumet District station on the city’s Far South Side.

Officer Areanah Preston “always had something funny to say and was guaranteed to pass on her infectious smile,” former Chicago police Capt. Saadi Carter said.

There was a Chicago police shooting early Saturday morning. An off-duty CPD officer was shot on Blackstone in the city's Avalon Park neighborhood.

The officer had just finished work when she was shot at about 1:42 a.m. in the 8100 block of South Blackstone Avenue, according to the Chicago police.

Photo caption: Fred Waller