.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in safety: how performed a sniper install an unsecured roof with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared through a lucky turn of the crown a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally shot themself.