Father of NC college student furious after career criminal allegedly kills daughter in USC house burglary

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The father of a North Carolina college student who was shot in a “random” burglary earlier this month while she was staying with University of South Carolina students for the weekend was “furious” when he learned of the suspect’s lengthy criminal history.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.“Then, I heard … the screams from my wife on the phone and … she didn’t want to tell me that, and I had to kind of pull it out of her,” Stephen recalled.“And she finally said Logan’s gone, and I said, ‘What do you mean gone?’ She said dead.

And that moment, I had no reaction.I was in shock.”He described his feelings upon learning that Logan had been shot as “a kick in the stomach” and “a panic.”When he learned through local news that Dickey was a career criminal with nearly 40 prior arrests across different North Carolina counties, he felt “furious.”“That was shocking.

Absolutely shocking,” he said.“I got a nam...