A New Zealand man who travelled to the US home of a 14‑year‑old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl's mother.
Stuff.co reports that 25-year-old Troy George Skinner was shot on Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the home in Goochland, Virginia.
The County sheriff said Skinner bought a knife and duct tape after arriving in the US.
The sheriff also said the girl's mother saw a man trying to enter her home, warned him several times she had a gun, then fired after he broke the glass on the second door he tried to open.
Skinner was struck in the neck and remains hospitalised.
He will be charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit a serious crime.
