Inset left: Nathan Davin (St. Louis County Jail). Inset right: MaeDean Davin (GoFundMe). Background: The 1500 block of North 9th Avenue East in Duluth, Minnesota (Google Maps).
A Minnesota man will spend decades behind bars for shooting his mother as she slept in a recliner in her home — before he knocked on his neighbor's door covered in blood.
Nathan Davin was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of his mother, 74-year-old MaeDean Davin, and subsequently sentenced to 21 3/4 years in prison, according to court records reviewed by Law&Crime. He was given credit for time served totaling about one year.
On Aug. 16, MaeDean Davin was "positioned in her recliner in a way that indicated she was sleeping," Assistant St. Louis County Attorney Kirstyn Oye said in court, per Duluth News Tribune. Her son is believed to have shot her in the face and caved her head in with a blunt object — exposing part of her brain.
At some point, a then-46-year-old Nathan Davin apparently spray-painted "satanic" symbols and words inside the house, including "go to hell." But he didn't just stay inside, as Law&Crime previously reported. Covered in blood and wearing nothing but boxers, Nathan Davin knocked on his neighbor's door and said someone had died.
He reportedly called another neighbor, too, and told them, "My mom's dead. She blew her head off."
Officers with the Duluth Police Department responded to the 1500 block of North 9th Avenue East in Duluth, Minnesota, and found Nathan Davin on the front porch of his mother's home. He told cops he woke up and "found my mom f—ing dead."
When officers went inside the home, they found MaeDean Davin lying in a recliner in her living room with a "devastating gunshot wound to her face," and a "significant amount of blood was on [the] victim's shirt and the recliner," a probable cause statement obtained by McClatchy News states.
Investigators continued moving through the home, reportedly finding a blood-covered Glock 9 mm on a nightstand, as well as ammunition that matched the shell casings downstairs. Officers arrested the son, and when he was placed in a police car, he said, "wake up to bulls—" and "there went my life."
Nathan Davin — who appeared to be drunk when officers spoke with him — then admitted to what he'd done. "God d— it. I killed my mother," Nathan Davin reportedly said as he sat alone in an interview room.
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