.IT WAS A stunning lapse in protection: exactly how carried out a sniper mount an unsecured rooftop with a direct view to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death-- spared by a fortunate convert of the head a split second just before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot themself.