NZ man shot in the neck

A NEW Zealand man who travelled to the US home of a 14-year-old girl he had met online was shot by the girl’s mother, a sheriff said yesterday.

Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot after he allegedly tried to enter the home in Goochland, Virginia, said Sheriff James Agnew.

He said Skinner brought a knife and duct tape to the home. The girl’s mother saw him trying to enter, and warned him several times she had a gun before firing. Skinner was struck in the neck and remains hospitalised.