CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- A congressional hearing in Charlotte turned deeply emotional on Monday when the father of a murdered college student took the microphone.

Stephen Federico, father of 22-year-old Logan Haley Federico, addressed the room not as a politician or expert, but as a grieving father, and his message was raw and clear.

“How many of y’all have kids?” he asked. “When I tell you this story... think about your child.”

Logan Federico, a college student from Waxhaw, was shot and killed during a violent home invasion in Columbia, South Carolina, earlier this year. The suspect, Alexander Devonte Dickey, is a 30-year-old convicted felon with an extensive criminal history -- 39 arrests and 25 felony charges. He was still on the streets the night Logan was killed.

On Monday,

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