.IT WAS A sensational lapse in protection: just how performed a sharpshooter mount an unsafe roof along with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was standing a simple 150m away? Based on online video footage, it looks like Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from death-- conserved through a fortunate convert of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer just before being fatally fired themself.