.IT WAS ACTUALLY A sensational lapse in protection: exactly how did a sniper mount an unprotected roof with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared through a fortunate convert of the crown an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars got rid of a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot himself.