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A North Carolina father called for stricter penalties for criminals during a congressional hearing on Monday, saying that, similar to the case of the Charlotte light rail attack, his daughter was killed at the hands of a repeat offender.

Stephen Federico said his daughter Logan’s alleged murderer had more than two dozen felonies on his record in South Carolina before he broke into a house in Columbia, where the 22-year-old woman was visiting with friends, and robbed her and shot her in the chest.

"I will fight until my last breath for my daughter," Federico told lawmakers during his opening remarks. "You need to fight for the rest of our children, the rest of the innocents, and stop protecting the people that keep taking t

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