.IT WAS A sensational lapse in safety and security: just how did a sharpshooter mount an unsecured rooftop with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- spared by a blessed turn of the crown an instant 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 fired himself.