.IT WAS A stunning lapse in security: just how carried out a sharpshooter install an unprotected rooftop along with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- saved through a privileged turn of the head an instant just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.