A Florida man has been convicted of first-degree murder and could possibly face the death penalty. Donovan Faison shot his teenage girlfriend after she told him she was going to have his baby. Despite him demanding that she get an abortion, she refused, which angered him enough to kill her in cold blood. He might have gotten away with it if he hadn’t sent a text to a friend vowing to have his revenge and end her life.
A jury convicted 23-year-old Faison on October 27, 2025, finding him guilty of first-degree murder, the Office of the State Attorney 18th Judicial Circuit shared in a news release. Faison also was found guilty of killing an unborn child and burglary.
In November 2022, Faison shot his 18-year-old girlfriend, Kaylin Fiengo, as she sat in her car. She was at the end of her first trimester of pregnancy. Faison was arrested 10 months after Fiengo’s death when investigators from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office found texts between the two, People reported. In the texts, the man made it clear that he was displeased when the teen told him she was pregnant with his baby.
Fiengo sent a text with two positive pregnancy tests to Faison, Marr Reed, public information officer for the State Attorney’s office in the 18th Judicial Circuit, wrote in the release. “He accused her of lying then texted ‘Abortion!!!’” Reed wrote. Prosecutors claimed he was “angry and felt pressured because he was living with another woman who suspected him of cheating.”
“On my brothers grave, I’m gonna crop her out,” Faison texted a friend after the girl refused to have an abortion.
Not long after sending that text to a friend, Faison reached out to Fiengo. He asked her to meet him at Coastline Park, and she later told a friend she was going there to meet him. It was then that he shot her in the head, leaving her and their unborn child to die. According to investigators, an ultrasound photo of the fetus was found a few feet away from her body, People reported.
“Phones are an extension of your mind and your body – It’s the reason we can give you clear, convincing evidence,” prosecutor Domenick Leo told the jury during closing arguments. “He said he was going to do it, then he did it. The police got the right guy.”
Faison was back in court on October 29 to determine whether he would face the death penalty. WFTV reported that the jury recommended the death penalty after a two-day trial. During the trial, Assistant State Attorney Stewart Stone argued that the killing was premeditated, calling it an “execution-style killing.”
Again, the texts Faison sent vowing to rid himself of the girl were an important and explicit example of his intentions. “Many of the true, just and fair decisions are also the difficult, agonizing decisions,” Stone said, acknowledging the difficult decision the jury had to make, per WFTV.
Fiengo’s family also shared victim impact statements with the jury. “No words can capture the depth of pain that comes with losing your daughter to murder,” shared her mother, Sarah Schweickert.
Meanwhile, Donovan Faison’s family also spoke, requesting life in prison instead of the death penalty. A final decision will be made after a hearing on December 5.
