.IT WAS ACTUALLY An impressive lapse in safety: how did a sharpshooter install an unprotected rooftop with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, that was actually standing up a simple 150m away? Based upon video recording footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death-- spared by a lucky convert of the crown a flash prior to Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being fatally shot themself.