LOWELL — Grieving family and friends of 15-year-old Ahliana Dickey packed a courtroom in Lowell District Courtroom Monday morning as Trevor Bady was arraigned on a number of costs stemming from Dickey’s taking pictures demise final week.
Bady, 21, of Tewksbury, was arraigned on costs of homicide, residence invasion, carrying a firearm with out a license, discharging a firearm inside 500 ft of a constructing, possession of ammunition with out an FID card, and possession of a firearm within the fee of a felony. He’s scheduled for a July 31 possible trigger listening to.
Middlesex Assistant District Lawyer Christopher Tarrant mentioned through the arraignment that prosecutors could be in search of a first-degree homicide conviction. Choose Zachary Hillman granted the prosecution’s request to carry Bady with out bail.
Dickey had been simply hours away from her eighth grade commencement ceremony when the taking pictures is believed to have taken place. When she didn’t arrive on the ceremony, her household grew to become involved, and a search started Friday. She was present in her residence on Lawrence Avenue in South Lowell simply after 6 p.m. Friday, the place emergency medical technicians quickly pronounced her lifeless.
Dickey’s relations sitting within the courtroom gallery may very well be heard gasping when Tarrant mentioned eight 9mm bullet casings have been discovered on the scene in Dickey’s bed room, and that she suffered gunshot wounds to her neck and torso.
“Officers spoke with several individuals who believe that the victim’s boyfriend, identified as 21-year-old Trevor Bady, presented before the court today, may be responsible for Ahliana’s death,” mentioned Tarrant.
Tarrant mentioned relations and associates who have been interviewed through the investigation described Bady as being abusive to Dickey, one thing she had confided to folks about days earlier than her demise.
“Ahliana had informed others that Bady had been hitting her, giving her bruises and a bloody lip. Family members described seeing bruises on Ahliana’s legs, knees and arms as recently as June 13, 2024,” mentioned Tarrant. “On June 12, 2024, Ahliana confided in one person that this defendant made statements such as ‘I am going to kill you. I am going to kill your grandma,’ and that he was going to shoot up her house, and that he threatened to kidnap her and shoot her.”
In response to the police narrative, Dickie confirmed another person an image of Bady holding a gun two weeks earlier than her demise.
Neighbors of Dickey had reported an altercation between a female and male outdoors on Lawrence Avenue Thursday evening into Friday round midnight, an interplay that was caught on doorbell cameras, Tarrant mentioned.
A doorbell digicam captured photos of a person believed to be Bady getting out of a automobile and getting into Dickey’s residence via a door that accesses to Dickey’s bed room earlier than that altercation and the taking pictures, Tarrant mentioned. One caller, Tarrant mentioned, claimed they heard a voice that’s believed to be Dickey’s saying, “Get off me, get away from me. I don’t want to be with you anymore.” A digicam additionally caught the sound of eight gunshots at 12:06 a.m. Friday, adopted by photos caught on one other digicam of the person leaving Dickey’s residence minutes later and working down Lawrence Avenue.
Tarrant mentioned an Uber driver later reported a suspicious passenger, believed to be Bady, who had taken the Uber to and from Dickey’s residence earlier than and after the taking pictures. In response to courtroom paperwork, the Uber driver had been pulled over by police with a damaged taillight when he reported his issues. The Uber driver reported the passenger claimed that he was “set up,” and “wasn’t the one who fired the gun.”
Bady left the Uber once they arrived in Nashua, New Hampshire, close to the residence of one other girlfriend. Tarrant mentioned Bady opened the automobile door along with his sweatshirt and advised the motive force to wipe down the door afterward. On Saturday night a Lowell Police detective made contact with Bady over the telephone, Tarrant mentioned. Throughout that decision, Bady allegedly claimed to haven’t been in Lowell during the last two weeks.
Bady and his Nashua girlfriend had allegedly paid for 3 nights at a Motel 6 in Tewksbury Friday night. After Bady realized the police have been searching for him, Tarrant mentioned, he left the motel and went to a residence in Peabody.
Bady was later tracked down at that residence, the occupants of which Tarrant mentioned denied that Bady was current. Officers reportedly then noticed Bady making an attempt to exit the constructing via a again window and positioned him below arrest with out incident.
Bady confronted violent firearms costs in 2022, prosecutors mentioned, however these costs have been dismissed when witnesses failed to look for the trial.
As courtroom employees knowledgeable Bady that he could be held with out bail, a good friend or member of the family of Dickey shouted “Coward!” at Bady, a sentiment a few of them repeated outdoors the courtroom constructing afterward. When requested by reporters how Dickey’s household would need her to be remembered, they described her as “a beautiful person.”
A GoFundMe was set as much as assist help Dickey’s household, which had raised greater than $11,000 as of Tuesday afternoon. A MealTrain account, a service that enables folks to volunteer to make and donate meals to folks in want of help, was additionally set as much as assist the household.
