.IT WAS ACTUALLY A stunning lapse in safety and security: just how carried out a sniper mount an unsafe roof along with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was standing a mere 150m away? Based on video recording footage, it looks like Mr Trump was millimetres from death-- spared through a privileged convert of the head a flash just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks got rid of a rally-goer just before being fatally fired himself.