Man Sentenced to Loss of life for Killing Pregnant Girlfriend and Her Unborn Child

In October 2025, Donald Faison was convicted of first-degree murder with a firearm, killing an unborn child, and burglary with a firearm for shooting Kaylin Fiengo, 18, as she sat in her car at a Sanford park in 2022. She had refused to abort their unborn child.

Fiengo left behind a son who was just ten months old when she was executed.

According to the Office of the State Attorney, on Friday, “Circuit Judge Donna Goerner sentenced Faison on the three charges to:

• Death for first-degree murder
• Death for killing of an unborn child.
• Life in prison without parole (the maximum sentence) for burglary of a vehicle with an assault or battery.”

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.” The jury agreed, Matt Reed reported for the State Attorney’s office in the 18th Judicial Circuit.

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The vote was 11-1.

Stone told jurors, “You may and should consider the cold, calculated, premeditated nature of this killing,” adding, “This was an execution-style killing.”

(Coastline Park is in Seminole County about 25 miles north of Orlando, Florida.)

Faison wanted Fiengo to abort her baby, but she refused. “Police believe that was the motive for her death,” Christie Zizo and Catherine Silver reported:

Fiengo, who was 18 when she died, was found shot in the driver’s seat of a car at Coastline Park in Sanford.

Investigators said they found an ultrasound image of her unborn child just a few feet away from Fiengo’s body.

Background

It was crystal clear that Faison and Fiengo quarreled repeatedly over her pregnancy. According to Matt Reed, the public information officer for the State Attorney’s office in the 18th Judicial Circuit, Faison’s arrest

came after investigators with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office were able to find text messages between Faison and Fiengo in which he expressed his displeasure when he learned about the pregnancy.

When Fiengo first announced the news of her pregnancy to Faison by sending a photo of two positive pregnancy tests, he accused her of lying and then texted “Abortion!!!,” according to Reed.

Prosecutors argued at trial that Faison was “angry and felt pressured because he was living with another woman who suspected him of cheating,” according to Bell.

Also introduced at trial was a text Faison sent a friend when Fiengo refused to get an abortion.

“On my brothers grave, I’m gonna crop her out,” Faison wrote in that text, according to prosecutors.

After the trial but before the conviction, her dad, Ricky Fiengo, told Orlando NBC affiliate WESH that “as soon as she gave birth to her [first] child, she took her role as a mother very seriously.”

“I feel devastated. I mean in a way the baby is young so I guess it’s better that he’s not going to feel that pain. It’s just going to take a village; it’s going to take all of us to help and chip in to raise that child and let that child know how great his mother was.”

In a statement sent to WESH 2, Kaylin’s mother Sarah Schweickert said, “Kaylin was a very vivacious, loving, funny, and caring young woman. Who loved her son immensely. She was a loving big sister to her brother Blaze, sisters Addy and Aubrey. She graduated high school early as a young mother, with her cap saying “mommy did it”. She is a loss for many, but for her mom an empty hole in my heart that will never heal.”

Following Faison’s conviction, Tatiana Fiengo, the victim’s aunt, said she was relieved that “justice was finally served.”

“She was so brave. She was so funny, so forgiving. She was such a forgiving, funny girl,” Tatiana Fiengo told News 6. “And we all miss her. It’s not the same in our family. There’s always something missing.”

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.