.IT WAS A stunning lapse in safety: exactly how performed a sniper mount an unsafe roof with a straight view to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death– spared by a blessed turn of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer prior to being fatally shot himself.