.IT WAS A magnificent lapse in security: exactly how did a sharpshooter mount an unsafe rooftop along with a direct view to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it appears like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from fatality– spared through a blessed turn of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally fired himself.