.IT WAS A spectacular lapse in safety: how performed a sniper install an unprotected rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- conserved by a privileged turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals eliminated a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired themself.