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Virginia mother shoots armed man, 25, who flew 8,500 miles from New Zealand and tried to break into her home
2018-06-27
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A man from New Zealand was shot after he travelled to the home of a 14-year-old girl in Virginia he was reportedly communicating with online.

Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot on Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the home in Goochland, Virginia.

He is now fighting for his life after being shot in the neck by the girl's mother. The FBI are investigating the shooting.

The Goochland County sheriff said Skinner bought a knife and duct tape after arriving in the U.S.

The sheriff also said the girl's mother saw a man trying to enter her home and began banging on the door with a brick.

The mom who was at home with her two daughters at the time warned him several times that she had a gun.

Skinner then threw the brick through the glass door and the teenage girl's mother fired twice, hitting Skinner once in the neck.

'All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him - the only inference is that he had very bad intent,' Agnew said.

'He was not invited here, he was not expected here, he had been told in the past that the daughter no longer wished to communicate with him.'
Posted by:Fred

#7  Gun control advocates cannot be found for comment.
Posted by: gorb   2018-06-27 18:27  

#6  I'm just worried someone is going to steal his frequent flyer miles.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2018-06-27 13:20  

#5  Notice to foreign visitors - this is a 2d Amendment country still. Most states have laws or judicial rulings that killing intruders is A-OK and is backed up by the guarantee of a jury trial (who have a record of findings of innocent in such cases).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-06-27 08:10  

#4  From what I understand she only had a .22 as well. I'm sure someone could set up a gofundme for her and people would donate to buy her something bigger, like a phased plasma rifle:p
Posted by: Silentbrick   2018-06-27 07:52  

#3  The local shooting range should donate her free time and ammo for shooting center mass.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-06-27 07:06  

#2  FBI investigating? Did this happen on federally administrated land?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-06-27 06:54  

#1  Good.
Posted by: charger   2018-06-27 00:18  

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