.IT WAS ACTUALLY A remarkable lapse in safety and security: exactly how performed a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, who was standing a plain 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death-- saved by a blessed turn of the crown a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars eliminated a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.