.IT WAS ACTUALLY A remarkable lapse in surveillance: just how carried out a sharpshooter install an unsecured rooftop with a straight line of sight to Donald Trump, who was actually standing a mere 150m away? Based upon video clip footage, it appears like Mr Trump was actually millimetres from death– conserved through a lucky turn of the crown an instant before Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania, fired at him. Crooks killed a rally-goer before being actually fatally shot themself.