.IT WAS ACTUALLY A stunning lapse in security: how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsecured rooftop along with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, that was standing a simple 150m away? Based upon video footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres from death– spared by a privileged convert of the crown a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Criminals killed a rally-goer prior to being fatally fired himself.