Donovan Faison convicted of killing pregnant girlfriend

A Seminole County jury on Monday convicted 23 year old Donovan Faison of first degree premeditated murder in the 2022 killing of his then 18 year old girlfriend, Kaylin Fiengo, prosecutors and court records show. The fatal shooting occurred on November 11, 2022, at Coastline Park in Sanford, Florida. Sentencing is scheduled for October 29, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Police said an officer on routine patrol found a vehicle running in the park parking lot with blood on the ground and Fiengo slumped in the driver’s seat with a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel later declared her dead. An investigation determined she was roughly three months pregnant at the time of her death and was the mother of a one year old child. A friend told police she used a phone location feature to track Fiengo to the park, according to an arrest affidavit.

Court filings and police accounts describe a pattern of disputes between Fiengo and Faison over the pregnancy. Friends and witnesses told investigators Faison had expressed that he did not want another child and had offered to buy Fiengo Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, and later insisted she have an abortion. Prosecutors said...