A man arrested 39 times, convicted of 25 felonies, served just over 600 days in prison across a decade.
That is the record of Alexander Devante Dickey, the man who killed 22-year-old Logan Federico during a home invasion. Her father, Steve Federico, brought that record to Washington, and he did not come quietly. Republicans invited him to testify at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in Charlotte, North Carolina, held as part of an effort to scrutinize Democratic criminal justice policies.
Steve Federico’s Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee
Federico opened by asking the committee members to imagine their own children in his daughter’s final moments. Logan, a college student who had recently decided she wanted to become a teacher, was visiting friends when Dickey forced his way in. Federico described what happened in explicit terms, his voice carrying the weight of every detail.
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“Think about your child coming home from a night out with their friends, laying down, going to sleep, feeling somebody come in the room and wake them, and drag her out of bed, naked, forced on her knees, with her hands over her head, begging for her life, begging for her hero, her father, me, that couldn’t be there. She was five foot three. She weighed 115 pounds,” he said.
He then turned to Dickey’s criminal history, which he argued made the killing entirely preventable. Logan Federico congressional testimony According to Federico, Dickey had been committing crimes at a rate of 2.65 per year since age 15 and should have faced more than 140 years in prison based on the charges against him.
“He was arrested 39 goddamn times, 25 felonies, was on the street. He should have been in jail for over 140 years for all the crimes he committed. You know how much time he spent in prison, a little over 600 days in 10 years,” Federico said.
The Failures Federico Says Cost Logan Her Life
Federico also directed frustration at Byron Gibson in South Carolina, saying he had received no communication from him in four months following Logan’s death. He said Gibson’s primary concern appeared to be Federico’s television appearance on Fox News with Trey Gowdy rather than the circumstances that led to his daughter’s killing.
He described Logan lying on the floor for seven hours before anyone in the home realized something was wrong. He said Dickey then used her debit card on a spending spree. When investigators reviewed security footage, they recognized Dickey immediately because of how many times he had previously been arrested.
“They didn’t have to do a check. He was arrested so many times they knew who he was. They knew exactly where to go get him,” Federico said. “Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic that I’m here today.”
Federico’s Promise to Keep Fighting
Federico closed with a direct warning to lawmakers on both sides. He told the committee they had woken a force they were not prepared for, and that he intended to keep speaking until the system that failed his daughter is fixed.
“You will be sick and tired of my face and my voice until this gets fixed. I will fight until my last breath for my daughter,” he said. “Stop protecting the people that keep taking them from us.”
Logan Federico had figured out she wanted to be a teacher just two weeks before she was killed. Her father made clear her name will not be forgotten as long as he has anything to say about it.
