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A bright, young woman named Logan Federico was senselessly gunned down while visiting friends in Columbia, South Carolina on May 3, 2025, a night that should have been ordinary but ended in brutal tragedy. The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alexander Dickey, allegedly broke into homes, stole a firearm and keys, and shot Logan in her sleep — a heartbreaking end to a life full of promise.
Her father, Stephen Federico, has every right to be furious, and he made that fury plain as he ripped into the systemic failures that let a career criminal roam the streets. Federico told reporters he would follow the case and see justice done, and his anguish mirrors what millions of Americans feel when the system protects repeat offenders more than it protects victims.
Police say Dickey didn’t sneak in and act on impulse; he allegedly carried out a spree of thefts, used stolen cards, and even tried to set a house on fire before he was captured and denied bond. Those operational details — the stolen vehicle, the stolen firearm, the brazen use of other people’s cards — read like the playbook of someone the system should have neutralized long before this deadly night.
Worse still, Dickey’s record is not that of a one-off troublemaker but of a career offender with nearly 40 prior arrests and at least 25 felony charges, a ledger that should have kept him behind bars. Investigations now point to clerical failures, missing fingerprint data, and bungled record-keeping that allowed prior convictions to fall out of state databases and kept prior judges and prosecutors in the dark when plea deals and probation were handed down. This is not theory or hyperbole — it is documented mismanagement that cost a young woman her life.
Americans should be furious, and we should demand accountability — from clerks who failed to enter records, from prosecutors who accepted lenient deals for repeat burglars, and from elected officials who have embraced soft-on-crime policies while citizens pay the price. Federico’s push for the harshest possible punishment reflects a wider outrage: when the system treats a criminal’s paperwork as more sacrosanct than a victim’s right to safety, something is profoundly broken.
This is a clarion call for restoring common-sense justice reforms: mandatory tracking and transfer of criminal records across county and state lines, tougher penalties for habitual offenders, and an end to the revolving door that keeps violent and prolific thieves back on the street. Law-and-order isn’t a slogan; it’s the only reliable way to protect families and students who should be able to visit friends without fearing for their lives.
We grieve with the Federico family and stand with every parent who expects the system to keep their children safe. Hardworking Americans must hold officials to account at the ballot box, demand reforms that prevent another Logan from being sacrificed to bureaucracy, and make clear that our communities will not tolerate a justice system that excuses repeat predators while punishing the innocent.
