He Got Girlfriend Pregnant — Then Sent Her Terrifying Text. He Killed Her When She Refused Abortion

A Florida man has been sentenced to death for killing his pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child after she chose not to have an abortion.

Donovan Faison, 23, received the death penalty on Dec. 5 after a Seminole County jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, killing an unborn child and burglary, according to a press release from the 18th Judicial Circuit’s State Attorney’s Office. On Oct. 30, the jury voted 11–1 to recommend the death sentence.

Prosecutors said Faison lured 18-year-old Kaylin Fiengo to Coastline Park in Sanford on Nov. 11, 2022, and shot her in the head as she sat in her car.

According to prosecutors, text messages between the two showed Faison’s anger when he learned Fiengo was pregnant. After she sent him a photo of two positive pregnancy tests, he accused her of lying and responded with “Abortion!!!,” a separate release said.

At trial, prosecutors argued that Faison was “angry and felt pressured because he was living with another woman who suspected him of cheating.” In texts to a friend, he also wrote about Fiengo, “On my brothers grave, I’m gonna crop her out.”

Investigators said Faison then arranged to meet Fiengo at the park.

Fiengo, who died from a gunshot wound to the head, had told a friend she planned to meet Faison there. Authorities also recovered an ultrasound photo at the scene.

“You may and should consider the cold, calculated, premeditated nature of this killing,” Assistant State Attorney Stewart Stone told jurors, according to the release. “This was an execution-style killing,” he said.

According to a GoFundMe campaign created after her death, Fiengo is survived by her 1-year-old son. Her obituary remembered her as a fun, loving young woman with an old soul.