A Duluth man has pled guilty to second-degree murder after admitting to killing his mother in August 2025.

Nathan Douglas Davin, 47, has pled guilty to second-degree murder with intent for the fatal shooting that occurred on Aug. 16, 2025.

Duluth police were dispatched to a reported fatality occurring at a residence on Ninth Avenue East in the City of Duluth.

When officers knocked on the door of the home, Davin reportedly entered the front porch and stated he was trying to control his dogs when officers saw what appeared to be blood on his hands. When asked about it, charges state that he told officers, I found my mom dead.

Inside the home, police they found a woman sitting in a recliner in the living room with a gunshot wound to the head, a significant amount of blood on her shirt and recliner, and splatter on the wall behind her, according to charges. On the floor to the right of the recliner, officers found a spent pistol casing, and a bullet was found near the exit wound in her hair.

Davin was taken to police headquarters for questioning, at which point charges state officers collected his boxer shorts, which had blood on them, as evidence.

Officers also reviewed a recording of him when he was sitting alone in an interview room, during which he could be heard saying to himself, God damn it, I killed my mother.