This is one of the most gut-wrenching video clips I've ever seen.
Steve Federico was testifying in front of North Carolina's Committee on the Judiciary's 'Victims of Violent Crime' field hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina, yesterday.
The grieving father was a participant because his precious daughter, Logan, had been taken from them in the middle of the night by a career criminal while visiting friends in neighboring South Carolina.
...Logan Federico, a 22-year-old aspiring teacher from Waxhaw, was visiting friends at USC in Columbia, South Carolina, and staying at a house on Cypress Street on the evening of May 2 through May 3.
In the early morning hours of May 3, suspect Alexander Dickey, a 30-year-old “career criminal,” entered the home in the early morning, stole several credit and debit cards and fatally shot Logan in what Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook described as a “random” crime during a May 5 press conference.
“She was supposed to go down the night before, and plans got canceled … so she decided to do it on a Friday,” Logan’s father, Stephen Federico, told Fox News Digital. “That’s the thing that’s just gut-wrenching. She wasn’t even supposed to be there. She was supposed to be home Friday.”
On Saturday afternoon, Logan’s mother, Melissa Federico, was at home cooking when two officers showed up at her door to tell her the news that Logan had been shot dead in Columbia. Stephen had been golfing with friends when his wife called.
This is Logan Federico.
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 30, 2025
She was murdered in her sleep right here in South Carolina by a career criminal with 39 arrests and 25 felonies.
Every parent’s worst nightmare, losing a child to a predator who never should have been free. We won’t forget you, Logan. pic.twitter.com/mLOWw4M5Q7
Logan was a hard worker who had turned towards a dream of teaching.
...Logan had been studying at Central Piedmont Community College and working two jobs at the time of her death. She had aspirations to attend a four-year college and become a teacher after she developed a love of kids while babysitting her neighbors over the summer.
The criminal who crept into that house and viciously executed the young student, named Alexander Dickey, never should have been out on the streets.
Alex Dickey had 39 arrests. 25 felonies. Yet he was walking free until he brutaIIy kiIIed Logan Federico inside her home. pic.twitter.com/LrXIRfuCoN
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2025
Thirty-nine arrests and twenty-five felony convictions later, this man was still free to wander neighborhoods and break into homes. He'd already broken into one, where he'd stolen keys and a car, prior to entering the home Logan was visiting.
...In the early morning hours of May 3, Dickey drove a stolen vehicle into the neighborhood and parked the car on Cypress Street, seemingly at random, according to Columbia police. He allegedly broke into one home and stole the keys to another vehicle and a firearm. He then broke into the home where Federico was staying, police said.
There, Dickey allegedly stole several credit cards, saw Federico sleeping in one of the rooms in the house, and fatally shot her with the stolen firearm.
...The next day, Dickey went on a “shopping spree” using the stolen credit cards in West Columbia, and the stolen vehicle he was using broke down in Saluda County, police said. He allegedly called a tow truck to have the stolen vehicle transported to a residence in Gaston.
...Authorities began tracking Dickey as a person of interest and responded to the residence in Gaston on May 3. He allegedly fled the home when they arrived, and officials spent the remainder of Saturday searching for him.
Around 4 p.m. on May 4, a Gaston resident reported seeing a man, later identified as Dickey, emerge from the woods and steal a car. He wrecked the stolen car and fled on foot to the initial Gaston residence law enforcement had responded to the day before and forced their way inside the home.
Authorities surrounded the residence and ordered him to emerge, at which point Dickey allegedly tried to set fire to the home. Lexington County Sheriff’s Office deputies detained him at the residence.
Steve Federico made sure Logan's picture was front and center as he took his seat to testify before the members of the congressional field panel.
It started off badly when North Carolina Democratic Congresswoman Deborah Ross, in an excruciating and inexcusable faux pas, pointed to Logan's portrait, and then offered her sincere condolences to the 'family of Iryna Zarutska.'
Dear God. I can't even.
Steve Federico's daughter was brutally murdered, but Rep. Ross just confused her with Iryna Zarutska.
— Rep. Mark Harris (@RepMarkHarrisNC) September 29, 2025
There's so many victims of pro-crime Democrat policies, they can't keep track! pic.twitter.com/euDmK6Ormh
Steve Federico jumped all over the oblivious and sputtering congressional representative from his own state, from his daughter's state.
...“This is my daughter, okay? This is Logan Federico,” he chastised Ross. “How dare you not know her.”
Ross repeatedly apologized for the mistake before the hearing continued.
And then he began his own heartbreaking, utterly damning testimony.
...“How many of y’all have kids?” the grieving father sternly asked the committee. “Here’s what I need you to do. When I tell you this story … think about your child.”
Thinking about his baby - she was all of five foot three...
THIS IS MY DAUGHTER
🚨#BREAKING: Father of 22-year-old Logan Federico is screaming at Democrats in Congress after his daughter was dragged from bed, forced on her knees, and executed...
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) September 29, 2025
...by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES!!!
Everyone who let this demon walk freely, should be in prison. pic.twitter.com/cgwRNUCrR7
We were in tears on the couch. I do not know how he got through it - I guess because it was for his baby girl. He did for his beautiful daughter.
He did it for all the daughters who need protecting, who, sadly, don't seem to matter to a system and an ideology intent on protecting those who come behind their seats on the train going home.
Or who creep through broken windows in the night.
He did it for all the daughters whose names are never known by the people whose beliefs make such things possible.
“Her picture was right there. They’re blondes, they’re beautiful — but she didn’t even know who Logan was.”
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) September 30, 2025
Steve Federico says a Democrat mixing up his daughter’s name during a meeting on violence wasn’t a mistake — it was humiliating and hurtful. pic.twitter.com/nDqKY6i5Q8
I can only send hugs to this man and Logan's mom, and everyone who loved her, while I marvel at his composure.
Evil is what it is.
How they've nurtured it and allowed it to flourish at such horrific cost is what must be destroyed.
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