.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular lapse in safety and security: exactly how carried out a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was standing a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from fatality-- spared through a blessed turn of the head an immediate before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally fired himself.