.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent lapse in security: just how performed a sharpshooter mount an unprotected rooftop with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon online video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- saved through a lucky convert of the crown an immediate prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer before being fatally shot themself.