.IT WAS A sensational lapse in safety and security: just how carried out a sniper install an unsecured rooftop with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared by a blessed convert of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer before being fatally fired themself.