{"id":31755,"date":"2025-11-03T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31755\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:20:09","slug":"jury-recommends-death-for-florida-man-who-killed-pregnant-teen-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31755\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury recommends death for Florida man who killed pregnant teen girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A Florida man<\/a> who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their unborn son after she refused to get an abortion is facing the death penalty.<\/p>\n

Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted last week in the first-degree murder of Kaylin Fiengo, of killing an unborn child and of burglary with a firearm. The jury later voted 11-1 to sentence Faison to death, the Office of the State Attorney said in a news release<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n

Faison shot Fiengo in the head as she sat in her car at Coastline Park in Sanford in 2022. Investigators discovered a bullet casing and an ultrasound image near Fiengo’s body.<\/p>\n

At trial, prosectors showed messages from their phones that showed Fiengo had texted Faison a photo of two positive pregnancy texts, to which he wrote back, “Abortion!!!”<\/p>\n

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Kaylin Fiengo,18, was pregnant when she was shot in the head at a park in Sanford, Florida, in 2022. (Office of the State Attorney 18th Judicial Circuit)<\/p>\n

Faison “erupted” at the news of the pregnancy<\/a>, feeling “angry” and “pressured” because he was living with another woman at the time who suspected him of cheating, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

When Fiengo refused to terminate the pregnancy, prosecutors said<\/a> Faison texted a friend, “On my brothers grave, I\u2019m gonna crop her out.”<\/p>\n

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Donovan Faison, 23, was convicted of murdering Fiengo and their unborn son last week. A jury also voted 11-1 to sentence him to death. (Office of the State Attorney 18th Judicial Circuit)<\/p>\n

Further text messages showed Faison then lured Fiengo to a meeting at the park where he shot her dead, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

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During the sentencing hearing on Thursday, Fiengo\u2019s mother, father, aunt and grandmother delivered victim impact statements.<\/p>\n

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A photo of an ultrasound was found next to Fiengo’s body during the investigation. (Office of the State Attorney 18th Judicial Circuit)<\/p>\n

“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 \u2013 it sits in my chest like a weight that will never go away.”<\/p>\n

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Faison’s family also gave testimony to the jury, asking for the 23-year-old to be sentenced to life instead of the death penalty.<\/p>\n

Circuit Judge Donna Goerner will make the final decision on Faison’s sentence at another hearing on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida man who killed his 18-year-old girlfriend and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22322,265,28,30,29,1109,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-31755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-abortion","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-homicide","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}