.IT WAS A stunning lapse in safety: exactly how did a sniper install an unprotected rooftop along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- spared by a fortunate turn of the head a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer just before being actually fatally fired themself.