.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in safety: exactly how did a sniper install an unprotected rooftop with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- conserved through a fortunate turn of the head a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally fired themself.