.IT WAS An impressive lapse in safety and security: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unprotected rooftop along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a simple 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- spared through a lucky turn of the head an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels killed a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired themself.