.IT WAS ACTUALLY A remarkable lapse in safety and security: just how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from fatality-- conserved by a lucky convert of the crown a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.