Dressed in black, New Zealand man Troy Skinner allegedly staked out a 14-year-old girl's home in a small, affluent United States town, before attempting to break the door down with a brick.After smashing through the door of the home in Goochland, Virginia, he reached in, attempting to unlatch it, before he was shot in the neck by the girl's mother.
The 25-year-old Auckland man had been talking to the girl online and travelled across the world to see her, despite the teenager's efforts to end communication between the two.
Skinner, who remains in a Virginia hospital, has been charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon, with the intent to rape, rob or murder.
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The maximum penalty for that charge in Virginia is life in prison.
However, he could face further charges from the FBI over his communications with the 14-year-old girl, a minor.
Goochland County sheriff James Agnew said Skinner had "bad intent".
"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.
"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."
He was found with duct tape, pepper spray and a camouflage folding clip knife with a 7cm blade.
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