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Logan Federico, 22, from the Waxhaw, North Carolina area, was visiting friends in Columbia, South Carolina, when she was shot and killed on May 3, 2025. Investigators say Alexander Dickey broke into the home where she was staying and shot her. Sponsors say he already had about 39 charges and 25 felonies — burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, parole violations — and had never been given serious prison time.
The hole was not that nobody had arrested him. It was that the system could not see who he was. His fingerprints were not properly sent to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, so his criminal history was incomplete. When he pleaded guilty in 2023, he was handled as a first-time offender. A prosecutor later said that if the office had had the full record, the case would not have been treated as a first offense and Dickey would likely have gotten a longer sentence. Warrants from other jurisdictions also did not follow him. Stephen Federico has said warrants sat for nearly two years, and when Dickey was arrested again, officers did not know those warrants existed, so nothing stuck. He stayed on the street. Then he killed Logan.
That is the door Logan's Law is written to shut. Rep. Russell Fry and then-Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced H.R. 8611 on April 30, 2026, and announced it May 6 with Stephen and Melissa Federico. Lindsey Graham has since died. His sister, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, and Fry are carrying it. Today's roundtable at the Charleston County Sheriff's Office included Blanche, Nordone, Fry, local sheriffs, and Stephen Federico. Blanche told him, "If we did our jobs, she would be here."
The May unveiling of Logan's Law in Myrtle Beach, with Graham, Fry, and the Federico family.
The bill would require the Attorney General, within 180 days, to build a free, publicly searchable Violent Criminal Offender Database of state and federal convictions, searchable by name, address, date of birth, and related fields. Sentencing records would be on it, so the public can see which judges and prosecutors keep giving career offenders a pass. A reportable offense must be punishable by more than 180 days and involve the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against a person or property. It also orders a report to Congress on the exact failures that mattered here: fingerprints, warrants, and criminal histories not shared between states and the federal government. States that refuse to participate could risk Justice Department grant money.
It is not law yet. Congress.gov still lists H.R. 8611 as introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee. What happened today is the Trump administration, through Attorney General Blanche, working with the father of the woman who was killed on the reason it happened — a man with dozens of charges treated like a first offender because his fingerprints and warrants never caught up to him — and on a bill meant to make that record visible before the next one walks.
Fry, Graham, and AG Blanche take questions after today's roundtable in Charleston.