LOWELL — The Tewksbury man accused of killing 15-year-old Ahliana M. Dickey allegedly abused and threatened to kill her and her grandmother in the days before shooting the teenager in her home early Friday morning, prosecutors said Tuesday. The details of the physical and emotional abuse Trevor Bady allegedly brought upon Dickey were disclosed in Lowell District Court Tuesday where the 21-year-old Bady was arraigned on a charge of murdering Dickey, on the very day she was scheduled to graduate from a Lowell public school.
Not guilty pleas were entered on Bady’s behalf to murder and other charges. Judge Zachary Hillman ordered Bady held without bail. The courtroom for Bady’s arraignment was packed with relatives and friends of Dickey who were often overcome with emotions as they listened to Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Christopher M.
Tarrant describe the final moments of the girl’s life. Tarrant said the beatings left her with a cut lip, visibly bruised legs and arms and he recounted the extent of harm she endured before being shot to death in her bedroom. Advertisement Dickey’s father, Scott Dickey, sat in the front row of the court, leaning forward with a somber expression on his face.
A woman seated next to him appeared to be consoling him, and rubbed his arm. Behind him, Tracy Smith, Dickey’s grandmother, touched the man on his shoulder at one point. In Smith’s hands was a white-framed photograph of Dickey, her face preserved with a smile.
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