.IT WAS A spectacular lapse in safety and security: how performed a sharpshooter install an unsecured rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based on online video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death-- saved through a blessed turn of the crown an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer before being fatally fired themself.