.IT WAS ACTUALLY A magnificent lapse in security: just how did a sharpshooter install an unprotected roof with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was standing a plain 150m away? Based upon video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- spared by a lucky turn of the crown a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars eliminated a rally-goer before being actually fatally fired themself.