The man accused of killing 22-year-old Logan Federico in Columbia will be back in court next week as the case enters a new phase.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The suspect charged with murder in the killing of 22-year-old Logan Federico at a home in Columbia will be back in court next week.
Court officials confirmed to News19 that 30-year-old Alexander Dickey is scheduled to appear at the Columbia Municipal Court at 11:30 a.m.
Dickey is accused of shooting Federico to death at a home on Cypress Street in Columbia sometime early Saturday morning.
Federico was a college student from Waxhaw, North Carolina, who had been visiting friends who are college students and fraternity members. Police believe she and her friend returned to the house shortly before 3 a.m. after a night out. Sometime later, police said Dickey allegedly broke into that house, stealing keys, a gun, and other items. Police said he then entered the neighboring house—where Federico was staying—and fatally shot her.
Officers responded to a 911 call at 11:14 a.m. after Federico’s body was discovered inside a home by friends. Within minutes of receiving the call about her body being found, police also received a call about a stolen vehicle from a neighboring property.
Dickey allegedly fled the scene in a stolen vehicle and went on what Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook called a “shopping spree” using stolen credit and debit cards in Lexington and Saluda Counties. Holbrook said the vehicle broke down in Saluda County, and Dickey called a tow truck to transport it to a home in Gaston in Lexington County, where he knew another woman.
By this point, investigators said they’d begun tracking Dickey, and law enforcement from multiple agencies converged on the Gaston-area home. Dickey fled into nearby woods, police said, sparking a search that lasted through severe weather overnight. Around 4 p.m. Sunday, Holbrook said a resident spotted a man matching Dickey’s description leaving the woods and stealing another vehicle, which he later crashed. Dickey then returned to the Gaston home, forced entry into the unoccupied residence, and barricaded himself inside.
As law enforcement surrounded the home and ordered him to surrender, investigators said the house caught fire. Authorities got Dickey out through a window and took him into custody. He was treated at a hospital and released.
Dickey is still being held at the Lexington County Detention Center.
