.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular lapse in security: how performed a sharpshooter mount an unprotected roof with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on online video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality-- conserved through a privileged turn of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer just before being fatally shot themself.