.IT WAS ACTUALLY A remarkable lapse in protection: just how performed a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- conserved by a fortunate convert of the crown a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels eliminated a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired themself.