Heartbreak in Massachusetts—15-Year-Old Killed, 21-Year-Old Boyfriend Charged with Murder
Ahliana Dicke never made it to her middle school graduation on Friday, June 14. Instead, her grandmother found her lying lifeless on the floor of their family home in Massachusetts from apparent gunshot wounds. She was only 15 years old.
An investigation by the Lowell Police Department led to the arrest of 21-year-old Trevor Bady in connection to the death of the Massachusetts teen after discovering that someone had broken into her home shortly after midnight on Friday, shooting her multiple times.
After her family realized that Dicke was not present for her graduation, they were worried and began searching for her before returning home to find that she had been murdered. At 6:10 p.m., Dicke’s grandmother alerted police that her body had been found on the floor of a bedroom in the family’s home. Several shell casings were found at the scene of the crime.
According to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Greg Hudon, the Massachusetts teen had been “in an abusive relationship” with Bady. Close friends and family referred to him as the young child’s boyfriend.
“I was on the phone with her last night,” Skyla Guthrie told reporters the day after her friend was killed. “Still in disbelief. She was happy… a positive person.” Guthrie also recalled how her friend was excited to turn over a new leaf with plans to enter high school and “do bright things in life.”
Police and prosecutors report that just after midnight on Friday, police received a phone call with a tip that a male and female had been fighting across the street. Per the source, the female could be heard yelling, “Get off me, get away from me; I don’t want to be with you anymore.” The caller also recalled hearing gunshots.
When police arrived on the scene, neither the male nor the female were found. However, surveillance video in the area captured the female, later identified as Dicke, yelling for help, and the male, soon identified as the defendant, Bady, leaving the home.
Later reports allege that Bady took an Uber to and from Dicke’s home before and after the killing. A driver for the company revealed that “he had had a suspicious passenger and expressed concern,” according to prosecutors. It was soon confirmed that the person was the defendant.
Bady was arrested on Monday, June 17, at a home roughly 30 miles southeast of where Dicke was killed. At this time, he is being charged with murder as well as “felony armed home invasion, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, use of a firearm while committing a felony, and discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a building.”
He is set to be arraigned in Lowell’s District Court on Tuesday.
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