.IT WAS A remarkable lapse in safety and security: exactly how did a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop along with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, that was standing a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- spared through a privileged convert of the crown an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.