.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent lapse in safety and security: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unsecured rooftop with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- conserved by a lucky convert of the head an immediate before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars eliminated a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.