Just days before her death, 15-year-old Ahliana Dickey told a friend that her boyfriend, 21-year-old Trevor Bady , had threatened to kill her and her grandmother and said he would shoot up the Lowell home she was living in, court records show. Bady is now charged with Dickey’s murder after prosecutors say he broke into her apartment through a door leading into a bedroom and fired eight shots, killing her hours before she was set to graduate from eighth grade. During his arraignment in Lowell District Court on Tuesday, a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf to the murder charge and others he faces in connection with Dickey’s death.
Bady was ordered held without bail. A statement of facts filed in district court shows that Dickey had told a friend and a cousin that she was in an abusive relationship with Bady, and her grandmother noted she often had bruises on her legs, knees and arms, including as recently as Thursday, the day before she was killed. Dickey had said Bady was hitting her, giving her bruises and a bloody lip.
The day before, on Wednesday, Bady had threatened to kill Dickey and her grandmother, she told a friend. He is also accused of saying he was going to “shoot up” their home in Lowell, according to the filing. At around 12:09 a.
m. on Friday, Lowell police received a call from a person who lived near Dickey, reporting a man and a woman fighting in the street, police wrote in the filing. The caller told police the woman yelled “get off me, get .
