The body of a girl was uncovered inside a rented out home in Columbia, South Carolina, over the weekend break, according to an interview held by Columbia Cops Division on Monday.
She was later on determined as Logan Federico, a 22-year-old from Waxhaw, North Carolina, authorities stated. Her reason of fatality was a deadly gunfire injury to the upper body, according to Columbia Coroner Naida Rutherford.
The university student was investing the weekend break with close friends in a rented out home in South Carolina when she was “arbitrarily killed by an occupation criminal” that was “on a spree of burglaries, burglaries and charge card scams,” the CPD stated.
Alexander Dickey, 30, supposedly burglarized a bordering home around 3 a.m. and swiped a gun, debt and debit cards, and tricks to a car, the CPD stated.
The suspicious after that supposedly went into your home where Federico was remaining, entered her space, and fired her, authorities stated, prior to getting away the scene in a taken car.
Dickey is thought to have actually made use of the taken cards to make acquisitions throughout Lexington Region prior to his taken car damaged down, authorities stated. He had it lugged back to a home in Lexington Region, where private investigators stated they tracked him down.
The outside of the South Carolina State Residence was photographed on Jan. 29, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina.
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When police enclosed, Dickey left right into neighboring timbers, bring about a manhunt in extreme weather, authorities stated. He later on burglarized one more home and established it ablaze, they included.
Policemans had the ability to remove Dickey via a home window and take him right into safekeeping, the CPD stated.
Federico’s papa, Steve Federico, talked via rips throughout journalism meeting.
” I am Logan Haley Federico’s papa, much better referred to as ‘Father,’ or her hero. Regrettably, that day, I can not be her hero,” he stated. “My little girl, I treasured. She was a solid, fun-loving person that did what she wished to do and was spicy.”
” My little girl was striving at college, functioning 2 tasks, to end up being an educator. She liked and loved children, youngsters of every ages,” he stated. “The message I wished to send out to Dickey, that took my little girl’s life– this is from her: ‘You can not eliminate my spirit. You may be able to eliminate my body … however you can not eliminate my love that my friends and family shown me.'”
” Logan was not a designated target,” Columbia Cops Principal Miss Holbrook stated at journalism meeting, including that her fatality “touches everybody in such a way that it’ll never ever leave us.”
He stated that the CPD released warrants billing Dickey with murder, 2 matters of first-degree robbery, tools ownership and larceny. The Lexington Region constable stated Dickey was additionally billed with robbery initial level and arson 2nd level, which he was rejected bond.
