North Carolina’s mourning father informs signing policies during the Congress hearing

A father of North Carolina called on Monday to more strict sanctions for criminals during a conference hearing, claiming that, similar to the attack by Charlotte Light Rail, his daughter was killed in the hands of a delinquent.

Stephen Federico said that the alleged murderer of his daughter Logan had more than two dozen crimes in his South Carolina file before embarking on a Columbia house, where the 22 -year -old woman visited friends, and stole and shot him in the chest.

“I will fight until my last breath for my daughter,” Federico told legislators during her opening remarks. “You have to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocent people, and stop protecting people who continue to take them from us, please.”

Federico joined Mia Alderman, whose granddaughter was murdered in 2020, to express themselves during a hearing of the Chamber’s judicial committee in Charlotte against a judicial system which, according to them, failed their family.

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Alexander Dickey (left) is accused of having killed Logan Federico 22 years old (right). (Handout)

The Committee held the hearing at a distance in the most urban region of Caroline in the North to highlight what legislators say they are a need for reform of criminal justice. The event comes after a repeat offender was filmed on a surveillance video last month, stabbing Inyna Zarutska, 23, to death after she was seated in front of the man on the Charlotte tram.

Logan Federico’s alleged killer, Alexander Dickey, had been arrested several times for the first degree burglary, which led to a minimum sentence of 15 years, when he pleaded in 2023 to a lower accusation as a first offender.

Stephen Federico tells the moment when he learned that his daughter, Logan, had been shot dead during his visit to friends at the USC in Columbia, South Carolina. (Adam Eugene Willis / Fox News Digital)

The Southern Carolina lawyer’s office that managed Dickey’s last arrest later declared that he had asked for a conviction based on a rap sheet which was incomplete because the fingerprints of Dickey were not correctly recorded, according to a local report and a digital analysis of Fox News.

Stephen Federico said in total that Dickey had 39 accusations on his file before leaving for burglary in May 2025, killed his daughter, then went to a store and used his debit card and other stolen cards. He was arrested the next day.

“When they saw his face on the video, they did not have to make a check. He was arrested so many times that they knew who he was,” said Stephen Federico.

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A memorial dedicated to Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, September 11, 2025. (Peter Zay / Anadolu via Getty Images)

In the case of Zarutska, the suspect Décarlos Brown Jr. had a criminal record which lasted ten years and previously served a prison sentence for theft with a dangerous weapon.

Brown had also received a diagnosis of schizophrenia and, according to the New York Timesawaited an assessment of his mental competence at the time of the murder of Zarutska. Before that, a magistrate judge released Brown in January after being accused of an offense for having abused the 9-1-1 appeal line.

“Unfortunately, it is too common that a criminal is easily died by a judge to make him turn around and commit an even worse crime,” said representative Mark Harris, RN.C., who represents a part of Charlotte.

Alderman, on the other hand, said that the prosecution for those responsible for the murder of his granddaughter, Mary Collins, 20, remain underway. Collins was found a few days after his death wrapped in plastic in a mattress with more than 100 wounds per stab.

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“Five years is not justice. Five years is the torment,” said Alderman, adding that one of the four arrested people, America Diehl, raped his liberation conditions. Three others were arrested and charged, one of which was on deposit for two years.

“Justice is delayed is delayed justice, and time steals our justice with the judicial system late for murder trials, and Mary is not the only victim. … The same system that failed Mary failed Iyna,” said Alderman.