.IT WAS A sensational lapse in safety: just how did a sniper install an unprotected roof with a direct line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing up a mere 150m away? Based on video footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- saved through a privileged convert of the head a flash before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Scoundrels got rid of a rally-goer before being fatally shot themself.