A Central Florida man was sentenced for killing his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend who refused to get an abortion.
A Seminole County judge sentenced Donovan L. Faison to death for killing his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion.
Prosecutors convicted Faison at trial of first-degree murder with a firearm, killing an unborn child, and burglary with a firearm for shooting 18-year-old Kaylin Fiengo as she sat in her car at a Sanford park in 2022. The jury voted 11-1 to recommend the death penalty for Faison.
At a recent hearing in Sanford, Circuit Judge Donna Goerner sentenced Faison on the three charges to: Death for first-degree murder, Death for killing of an unborn child, and Life in prison without parole (the maximum sentence) for burglary of a vehicle with an assault or battery.
At trial, Assistant State Attorneys Stewart Stone, Domenick Leo and Anna Valentini asked jurors to vote for the death penalty based on aggravating factors described in state law.
“You may and should consider the cold, calculated, premeditated nature of this killing,” Stone told jurors. “This was an execution-style killing.”
Another aggravating factor: That Faison killed a child younger than 12 while committing another capital felony, the premeditated murder of the mother.
At trial, prosecutors presented text messages that showed Faison was angry at Fiengo for not terminating the pregnancy and that he vowed to a friend that he would “crop her out.” The messages showed Faison lured Fiengo to a meeting at Coastline Park the night Sanford Police found her there, dead in her Nissan Versa from a gunshot to her head.
During the sentencing hearing, jurors heard victim-impact statements from Fiengo’s mother, father, aunt and grandmother.
“No words can capture the depth of pain that comes with losing your daughter to murder,” said Fiengo’s mother, Sarah Schweickert. “Every day I wake up and face a world that no longer has her smile, her laughter, her hugs. The grief never leaves – it sits in my chest like a weight that will never go away.”
