.IT WAS ACTUALLY A spectacular lapse in protection: how performed a sniper mount an unsecured roof with a straight line of vision to Donald Trump, that was actually standing a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it resembles Mr Trump was millimetres from death– conserved through a privileged turn of the crown an instant prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, shot at him. Crooks eliminated a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.