.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in safety: how did a sniper install an unprotected roof along with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- conserved by a fortunate turn of the head an immediate just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer prior to being fatally shot himself.