.IT WAS ACTUALLY A stunning lapse in protection: exactly how performed a sniper install an unprotected rooftop along with a straight view to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video footage, it seems like Mr Trump was millimetres coming from death-- conserved through a blessed convert of the crown an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Burglars eliminated a rally-goer just before being actually fatally shot himself.