.IT WAS A stunning lapse in safety: how performed a sniper install an unprotected rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved by a privileged convert of the crown an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals got rid of a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.