.IT WAS A stunning lapse in safety and security: how did a sniper install an unsecured roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a plain 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- conserved by a privileged convert of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks eliminated a rally-goer prior to being actually fatally fired himself.