.IT WAS A sensational lapse in safety: exactly how did a sharpshooter install an unprotected rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- spared through a lucky turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels killed a rally-goer just before being actually fatally fired themself.