.IT WAS A stunning lapse in protection: just how did a sniper install an unsecured rooftop along with a direct line of vision to Donald Trump, that was standing up a plain 150m away? Based on video clip footage, it resembles Mr Trump was actually millimetres coming from fatality-- spared through a privileged turn of the head a split second before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old coming from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Burglars killed a rally-goer just before being fatally shot himself.