A wonderful 22-year-old faculty pupil was fatally shot within a Columbia, South Carolina, rental dwelling on Saturday evening by a profession felony who was “on a spree of thefts, break-ins and bank card fraud,” the Columbia Police Division stated.
Logan Federico, a university pupil from Waxhaw, North Carolina, was spending the weekend at a rental dwelling with associates in South Carolina when she was senselessly murdered by a profession felony.
After stealing firearms and bank cards from a close-by dwelling, 30-year-old Alexander Dickey broke into the Columbia rental dwelling early Saturday morning, entered Logan Federico’s room and fatally shot her.
Dickey fled the scene in a stolen automobile and allegedly used stolen bank cards taken from the close by dwelling.
Police pursued Dickey after he fled into the woods. He reportedly broke into one other dwelling and set it on fireplace earlier than police took him into custody after a standoff in Gaston.
Dickey was charged with homicide, two counts of first-degree housebreaking, weapons possession and larceny.
Alexander Dickey is a convicted felon with a prolonged felony rap sheet.
ABC Information reported:
The physique of a younger girl was found inside a rented home in Columbia, South Carolina, over the weekend, in line with a press convention held by Columbia Police Division on Monday.
She was later recognized as Logan Federico, a 22-year-old from Waxhaw, North Carolina, police stated. Her reason for demise was a deadly gunshot wound to the chest, in line with Columbia Coroner Naida Rutherford.
The faculty pupil was spending the weekend with associates in a rented home in South Carolina when she was “randomly murdered by a profession felony” who was “on a spree of thefts, break-ins and bank card fraud,” the CPD stated.
When regulation enforcement closed in, Dickey fled into close by woods, resulting in a manhunt in extreme climate situations, police stated. He later broke into one other dwelling and set it on fireplace, they added.
Officers have been in a position to extract Dickey by a window and take him into custody, the CPD stated.
Logan Federico’s distraught father, Steve Federico, fought by tears as he spoke throughout a press convention on Monday.
“I’m Logan Haley Federico’s father, higher referred to as ‘Dad,’ or her hero. Sadly, that day, I couldn’t be her hero,” Steve Federico stated. “My daughter, I cherished. She was a robust, fun-loving particular person who did what she wished to do and was spicy.”
“My daughter was working laborious at college, working two jobs, to grow to be a trainer. She liked and adored children — kids of all ages,” the daddy stated. “The message I wished to ship to Dickey, who took my daughter’s life — that is from her: ‘You may’t kill my spirit. You would possibly have the ability to kill my physique, however you can’t kill my love that my household and associates shared with me.’”
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